Well, it's a little different from the 6 Day war. The the buildup to that war Egypt expelled the peace keeping force, closed off Israel's access to the Mediterranean, massed an army on Israel's border and called for another war against Israel. It was clear that there was going to be war, Israel merely decided to take action instead of getting steamrolled.
The Battlestar event is much more the equivalent of the U2 flying across the USSR that was mentioned previously... a provocative act, but not the opening shot of a war.
I'm sorry, I guess I was confusing the Taliban with the folks who executed women who tried to learn to read and write. Oh, that's right, they ARE the religious zealots who executed and tortured anyone who disagreed with them.
As far as Osama bin Laden, the Taliban did NOT say that they didn't have control over bin Laden, they somehow thought bin Laden wasn't responsible for the attacks. A little different from the current situation.
How about "leave your cellphone at home when you go out at night to terrorize people"? After all, if you want the cellphones off, clearly you aren't going to be using them to communicate, so why carry them?
Well, another thing that separates you from Reiser is having a relationship with your ex that is so bad that the police advise you ex to get a gun to protect herself.
Well, sorry (not really), but that's what happens when you get caught up in a crime like this
Thanks for proving my point. There was NO crime here. The attitude of "39 votes were lost, there must be a conspiracy, let's start a witch hunt" is exactly what this woman was upset about.
When I submitted this article, I knew that some folks would automatically assume that the election was fraudulent, and that any recount that didn't agree with what they "knew" must also be fraudulent. It's sad proof that facts can't drive out firmly held convictions. But just in another vain attempt, the issue with Ron Paul getting zero votes has already been clearly explained in this article that I posted a link to in the previous discussion of the NH election.
For anyone too lazy to click the link, here's the opening of the article:
"This is where I grew up," Sutton's town clerk said yesterday. "This is my hometown, this is where my family is, and all of sudden, my name is being splashed across the internet as this horrible person. And the frightening part is, I don't know these people and they don't know me."
Call wants the nationwide army of boisterous Ron Paul supporters, believers in more conspiracy theories than Oliver Stone, to know that she's committed no crime.
Not treason, as the dozens of phone callers screamed. Not fraud, as the dozens of e-mails charged. Nothing.
Human error, by someone unknown, caused Call's office to claim Paul received zero votes from the town during Tuesday's first-in-the-nation primary.
Paul actually got a whopping 31 votes.
Out of 920 cast.
Yeah, I know no "true believer" will believe this article either, but I have to try to inject some information into the discussion.
Obviously some free games (like chess) have been around "forever". But the chances that a non-commericial MUD will displace WoW are zero. Players expect a level of polish that is hard to imagine in a game that is produced by a volunteer effort. That's not to say that there aren't free games out there that are fun... but I doubt that any free game is going to be able to muster both the resources and the consistency to be a WoW killer. WoW won't last forever, but what replaces it will be commercial.
No, It hits the least common denominator in gaming. Much like television, which has a way larger captive fanbase (and they generally pay more a month, as well), people can sit in front of WoW and essentially zone out. IMO.
You are probably the player who is afk getting credit while I'm trying to win in battlegrounds.
In fact, unlike Everquest (say), there is much LESS time or inclination to "zone out" in WoW, because there's always action. You don't have to sit and med for 5 minutes before the next fight. You don't have to sit for 2 hours periodically calling out "camp check" to see if there's a spot open for you. You don't have to sit in one spot and kill the same thing, over and over and over again, hours on end, just to get a pixel of experience. In WoW, it's pretty obvious when someone isn't paying attention, and they get reported / dumped from the group ASAP.
The whole idea behind online games is twofold: 1) get the reward: better items and more money, and 2) accomplish objective 1 with as little effort as possible.
The rewards are nice. But that's not why I play. I play WoW for the same reason I play any game, to have fun. If I'm not having fun *while I'm playing* it's not worth it, no matter what the reward is. As an example, I do some player vs player combat in one of the zones (Halaa) when the chance comes up. You get tokens for doing this that you can use to buy gear. Well, I've looked at the gear and it's not interesting to me. I do the combat because I enjoy it, NOT because I can grind away and get some uber loot someday.
Yeah, it was simple human error.
This interview with the Sutton town clerk describes exactly what happened, and how the Ron Paul conspiracy lunatics harrassed her. As she says "Most of these people are not rational".
Here's a better one: the CIA wants you to wear tinfoil hats because such hats act as an antenna to focus mind-control rays on your head, so they started the rumor that tinfoil hats protect you.
Well, I've been programming on Windows since 3.1, and UNIX since 1973, and I've seen as much file corruption on *nix as I have on Windows. Sorry to rain on your parade.
So why not just buy one, get movies for that format and if the one you choose doesn't turn out to be the winner, buy the other player...
the few movies I buy (why have a collection of MOVIES -- how many times can you see the same crap?)
Ok... I'm baffled. I agree that it doesn't make sense to have a huge collection of movies, most of which you'll never watch again (wish I could convince my wife!) but if that's true, why on earth would you buy not one, but two hi-def players? Especially since, as far as I can tell, there just isn't that huge a difference between dvd and hi-def quality?
Except that I've had this happen, several times, when using RedHat linux' "whois" command, for domains that were REALLY weird. More than once.... I mean... COME ON!!!!!
I'm not saying that domain squatting never happens... just that it's quite possible for someone else to innocently get the domain you are looking at. I know that happens, because it happened to me.
I am positive this happened to me, and I only used the whois command from the OpenBSD command line to look the domain up. It was not a domain name that I can imagine anyone else wanting, but it was fairly short. Two days later (after checking with my client) I went to register it and it had been taken. I became immediately suspicious. Three days after that, I see this story...
Just to present a counterpoint: a couple of years ago, the opposite happened to me. I registered a domain name based on the name of my character in an online game. It was certainly an unusual name that I had never run into.
A few days later, I got a somewhat angry email from someone wanting to know why I had taken that name, because it was their surname, and they had planned on registering it. Once I explained the situation the guy calmed down and all was well.
But the moral is that it is quite possible that someone, completely innocently, took the domain you were researching, within a day or so you doing it, because that's exactly what happened with my domain. In my case, I just got lucky... 2 days later, the domain would have been gone.
Yes, making IT inaccessible, and then making sure that the ticket system "accidently" loses requests, is certainly the ticket to happy internal customers.
Or you might try remembering that you are there to serve the company, not the other way around.
I was in my local BestBuy a couple of months ago and saw a stack of Wii's. Not one, a stack of 10 or so. Maybe they had just taken delivery, but when I saw a full stack I assumed the Wii shortage was over.
It sounds like the basic attack is surreptitiously having a web page hit a bank and hoping that you are currently logged in. So why wouldn't simply logging in, doing whatever you need to do, and logging out work just as well as firing up a separate browser? If an attacker convinces my browser to hit my bank, but I'm not logged in, it's a "no harm no foul" situation.
No, I'm saying that comparing taking precautions to make sure that terrorists don't kill people to committing genocide is just plain dumb. Don't do it.
Idiot posts like this that compare having your bags go through an x-ray machine at an airport with slaughtering millions of innocents really annoy me.
Years ago I was visiting the family of a Chinese friend of mine, and his father somehow got on the topic of the WWII. He had been a refugee as boy in China, and had experienced first hand being bombed and strafed by the Japanese in a refugee column. He was still angry and bitter. When you compare his experience watching friends and family die to your experience at an airport, you demean him, you demean millions and millions of people.
The latest issue of PC Gamer had a pretty even distribution of scores from 50% up to 95%. I'm willing to believe that the editors are giving honest reviews. What's interesting is that if you listen to the pcgamer podcast, a couple of the editors will rave about a game and say that it's one of the best ever, and then another editor will say "I just don't see it, I tried it out and it seemed like just more of the same".
So it sounds like a lot of game scoring is just a crap shoot. Stuff like bugginess can be rated objectively, but the actual fun of the gameplay varies from person to person, and depending on who rates it, you may or may not agree with them.
One thing that came thru loud and clear from the podcasts, they don't get paid for good reviews. And I believe them. If you want to put on a tinfoil hat, go for it.
Earth to Linux fanatics: If it doesn't run the software users want to run, it is not better in every way.
Repeat that a couple of times. 99% of humanity doesn't get off on learning new software. If switching to Linux means retraining, then no, it is not "better in every way". The human cost of learning new software is enormous, and is never mentioned when people wax lyrical about how Bill is about to fall and Linux will rule the universe.
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Well, it's a little different from the 6 Day war. The the buildup to that war Egypt expelled the peace keeping force, closed off Israel's access to the Mediterranean, massed an army on Israel's border and called for another war against Israel. It was clear that there was going to be war, Israel merely decided to take action instead of getting steamrolled.
The Battlestar event is much more the equivalent of the U2 flying across the USSR that was mentioned previously... a provocative act, but not the opening shot of a war.
By this reasoning anyone who sells anything is a monopolist. I can't buy Starbucks coffee from Dunkin Donuts. That doesn't make Starbucks a monopoly.
I'm sorry, I guess I was confusing the Taliban with the folks who executed women who tried to learn to read and write. Oh, that's right, they ARE the religious zealots who executed and tortured anyone who disagreed with them.
As far as Osama bin Laden, the Taliban did NOT say that they didn't have control over bin Laden, they somehow thought bin Laden wasn't responsible for the attacks. A little different from the current situation.
How about "leave your cellphone at home when you go out at night to terrorize people"? After all, if you want the cellphones off, clearly you aren't going to be using them to communicate, so why carry them?
Well, another thing that separates you from Reiser is having a relationship with your ex that is so bad that the police advise you ex to get a gun to protect herself.
Thanks for proving my point. There was NO crime here. The attitude of "39 votes were lost, there must be a conspiracy, let's start a witch hunt" is exactly what this woman was upset about.
When I submitted this article, I knew that some folks would automatically assume that the election was fraudulent, and that any recount that didn't agree with what they "knew" must also be fraudulent. It's sad proof that facts can't drive out firmly held convictions. But just in another vain attempt, the issue with Ron Paul getting zero votes has already been clearly explained in this article that I posted a link to in the previous discussion of the NH election.
For anyone too lazy to click the link, here's the opening of the article:
Yeah, I know no "true believer" will believe this article either, but I have to try to inject some information into the discussion.
Obviously some free games (like chess) have been around "forever". But the chances that a non-commericial MUD will displace WoW are zero. Players expect a level of polish that is hard to imagine in a game that is produced by a volunteer effort. That's not to say that there aren't free games out there that are fun... but I doubt that any free game is going to be able to muster both the resources and the consistency to be a WoW killer. WoW won't last forever, but what replaces it will be commercial.
You are probably the player who is afk getting credit while I'm trying to win in battlegrounds.
In fact, unlike Everquest (say), there is much LESS time or inclination to "zone out" in WoW, because there's always action. You don't have to sit and med for 5 minutes before the next fight. You don't have to sit for 2 hours periodically calling out "camp check" to see if there's a spot open for you. You don't have to sit in one spot and kill the same thing, over and over and over again, hours on end, just to get a pixel of experience. In WoW, it's pretty obvious when someone isn't paying attention, and they get reported / dumped from the group ASAP.
The rewards are nice. But that's not why I play. I play WoW for the same reason I play any game, to have fun. If I'm not having fun *while I'm playing* it's not worth it, no matter what the reward is. As an example, I do some player vs player combat in one of the zones (Halaa) when the chance comes up. You get tokens for doing this that you can use to buy gear. Well, I've looked at the gear and it's not interesting to me. I do the combat because I enjoy it, NOT because I can grind away and get some uber loot someday.
Yeah, it was simple human error. This interview with the Sutton town clerk describes exactly what happened, and how the Ron Paul conspiracy lunatics harrassed her. As she says "Most of these people are not rational".
Here's a better one: the CIA wants you to wear tinfoil hats because such hats act as an antenna to focus mind-control rays on your head, so they started the rumor that tinfoil hats protect you.
Well, I've been programming on Windows since 3.1, and UNIX since 1973, and I've seen as much file corruption on *nix as I have on Windows. Sorry to rain on your parade.
Ok... I'm baffled. I agree that it doesn't make sense to have a huge collection of movies, most of which you'll never watch again (wish I could convince my wife!) but if that's true, why on earth would you buy not one, but two hi-def players? Especially since, as far as I can tell, there just isn't that huge a difference between dvd and hi-def quality?
I'm not saying that domain squatting never happens... just that it's quite possible for someone else to innocently get the domain you are looking at. I know that happens, because it happened to me.
Just to present a counterpoint: a couple of years ago, the opposite happened to me. I registered a domain name based on the name of my character in an online game. It was certainly an unusual name that I had never run into.
A few days later, I got a somewhat angry email from someone wanting to know why I had taken that name, because it was their surname, and they had planned on registering it. Once I explained the situation the guy calmed down and all was well.
But the moral is that it is quite possible that someone, completely innocently, took the domain you were researching, within a day or so you doing it, because that's exactly what happened with my domain. In my case, I just got lucky... 2 days later, the domain would have been gone.
Yes, making IT inaccessible, and then making sure that the ticket system "accidently" loses requests, is certainly the ticket to happy internal customers.
Or you might try remembering that you are there to serve the company, not the other way around.
I was in my local BestBuy a couple of months ago and saw a stack of Wii's. Not one, a stack of 10 or so. Maybe they had just taken delivery, but when I saw a full stack I assumed the Wii shortage was over.
It sounds like the basic attack is surreptitiously having a web page hit a bank and hoping that you are currently logged in. So why wouldn't simply logging in, doing whatever you need to do, and logging out work just as well as firing up a separate browser? If an attacker convinces my browser to hit my bank, but I'm not logged in, it's a "no harm no foul" situation.
No, I'm saying that comparing taking precautions to make sure that terrorists don't kill people to committing genocide is just plain dumb. Don't do it.
Idiot posts like this that compare having your bags go through an x-ray machine at an airport with slaughtering millions of innocents really annoy me.
Years ago I was visiting the family of a Chinese friend of mine, and his father somehow got on the topic of the WWII. He had been a refugee as boy in China, and had experienced first hand being bombed and strafed by the Japanese in a refugee column. He was still angry and bitter. When you compare his experience watching friends and family die to your experience at an airport, you demean him, you demean millions and millions of people.
Stop it.
The latest issue of PC Gamer had a pretty even distribution of scores from 50% up to 95%. I'm willing to believe that the editors are giving honest reviews. What's interesting is that if you listen to the pcgamer podcast, a couple of the editors will rave about a game and say that it's one of the best ever, and then another editor will say "I just don't see it, I tried it out and it seemed like just more of the same".
So it sounds like a lot of game scoring is just a crap shoot. Stuff like bugginess can be rated objectively, but the actual fun of the gameplay varies from person to person, and depending on who rates it, you may or may not agree with them.
One thing that came thru loud and clear from the podcasts, they don't get paid for good reviews. And I believe them. If you want to put on a tinfoil hat, go for it.
Earth to Linux fanatics: If it doesn't run the software users want to run, it is not better in every way.
Repeat that a couple of times. 99% of humanity doesn't get off on learning new software. If switching to Linux means retraining, then no, it is not "better in every way". The human cost of learning new software is enormous, and is never mentioned when people wax lyrical about how Bill is about to fall and Linux will rule the universe.
What about the other 75%?
Yeah, sometimes we're playing with friends and they have to take a break because one of their kids had a nightmare or some such.
Of course, the kids come in handy, apparently one of our friends is upping her fishing skill by "letting" her child fish.