I have read your story and I seen no correllation between your babbling and the fact that the "codes" are somehow proprietary. As to reading the codes, all the codes come with the scope machine upon purchase. I spoke with my mechanic in St. Paul and he saimply said, "He's full of BS. If I can't get the diagnostic info for you car Ken I'd just tow or drive it to the dealer and have em pull the info for me. They charge me $60 to get the info from em." You smell like a party plant campaigning. Why did you tow it home? Was there not a Mercury dealer near by? I bet you wouldn't have paid that much if you had a Ford. I guess next time via capitalism you would get educated and read Consumer Reports and find out just how expensive a Mercury is versus a Ford, Saturn, Chevy, etc. I don't hear any people who bought Fords or Chevys complaining about towing it an absurd distance? The article in the paper talks about a BMW owner, it rough not having the Beamer dealer near by, but that is part of the price you pay for buying an import. I guess the 90 mile drive was too much for the owner, even though the garage could have simply subletted the work and drove the car to the dealer for the customer. Sounds more like a case of a crappy garage. It's called Capitalism you Socialist! If you don't like the high price of owning a particular brand of car I guess, a reasonably intelligent person would find a car with a lower TCO (I am assuming as a SE you know what TCO means.) My suggestion to you is learn from your mistakes and buy a car with a lower cost next time. Jeez why should we pay via more government for you poor lack of judgement.
I like the idea of a more secure version of my social security card. The danger always lies in how the card is used. If it is the same as a SS card fine. But here is the problem and it was actually brought up in the movie Dracula 2000. If I encode the biometric data into the card and the card is stolen it is possible at the rate technology is moving to create say.. a glass eye that would satisfy a retinal scanner (as presented in the movie). A thumb print can be faked (Take elmer's glue on your thumb. Let dry clear. Peel off and place on a thumb scanner. I fooled two cheap scanning units during a presentation on my NOT to but cheap scanning units). And with the rate of technology moving so fast whar guarantee do we have that the biometic data we encode today can't be exploited in the near future? How about a latex mask with pinpoint thermal units embedded to defeat the facial thermal rec. units people are so high and might about these days in hardened security? Not possible today? Fine. What about tomorrow? My 2 bits. later
Ken P.S Yes I know I spell like a butter knife cut oak.
My argument for the opt-In philosophy is this as a resident:
I as a consumer have a right NOT to do business with any business I choose (i.e I can boycott). I also have a right to do business with ANY company in the U.S (of course there are exceptions. i.e Necessary permits) Take these two right and stick em in the ground as a base to work from. Now does a company have the right to do business with me without my consent based on the prior said rights?
My constitutional basis for those prior rights is:
10th Amendment
".... The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states are reserved to the States respectivly, or to the people."
This amendment states that just because we don't have a documented right to privacy, until the government denies us the right to privacy we citizens have the right. Unless the state takes it from us.
My opinion.
For additional insight into the game do some background checking on the names they use in the Final Fantasy (Square) games. There is a lot of Kabbalistic and cultic refrences. Names like Crowley and Stellazo creep up. Also references to classical literature (The Rape of Lucricia I belive is a Shakspeare play.) Half the fun of Final Fantasy games for me is digging up the story behind the names and refernces. Case point: Sephrioth (and the variants on it's spelling) is a Kabbalistic reference to the 12 sephrioths you master to become a god. (I am no means an expert on the topic but that is what I found.) Also the 4 elemental bad guys in the Final Fantasy 2 (US) like Rubicant were refences to creatures from Dante's Divine Comedy (Inferno). There is tons of little stuff in there that makes the games even more enjoyable. Just my comments. Later all.
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One word wittless, COLLEGE
I have read your story and I seen no correllation between your babbling and the fact that the "codes" are somehow proprietary. As to reading the codes, all the codes come with the scope machine upon purchase. I spoke with my mechanic in St. Paul and he saimply said, "He's full of BS. If I can't get the diagnostic info for you car Ken I'd just tow or drive it to the dealer and have em pull the info for me. They charge me $60 to get the info from em." You smell like a party plant campaigning. Why did you tow it home? Was there not a Mercury dealer near by? I bet you wouldn't have paid that much if you had a Ford. I guess next time via capitalism you would get educated and read Consumer Reports and find out just how expensive a Mercury is versus a Ford, Saturn, Chevy, etc. I don't hear any people who bought Fords or Chevys complaining about towing it an absurd distance? The article in the paper talks about a BMW owner, it rough not having the Beamer dealer near by, but that is part of the price you pay for buying an import. I guess the 90 mile drive was too much for the owner, even though the garage could have simply subletted the work and drove the car to the dealer for the customer. Sounds more like a case of a crappy garage. It's called Capitalism you Socialist! If you don't like the high price of owning a particular brand of car I guess, a reasonably intelligent person would find a car with a lower TCO (I am assuming as a SE you know what TCO means.) My suggestion to you is learn from your mistakes and buy a car with a lower cost next time. Jeez why should we pay via more government for you poor lack of judgement.
I like the idea of a more secure version of my social security card. The danger always lies in how the card is used. If it is the same as a SS card fine. But here is the problem and it was actually brought up in the movie Dracula 2000. If I encode the biometric data into the card and the card is stolen it is possible at the rate technology is moving to create say.. a glass eye that would satisfy a retinal scanner (as presented in the movie). A thumb print can be faked (Take elmer's glue on your thumb. Let dry clear. Peel off and place on a thumb scanner. I fooled two cheap scanning units during a presentation on my NOT to but cheap scanning units). And with the rate of technology moving so fast whar guarantee do we have that the biometic data we encode today can't be exploited in the near future? How about a latex mask with pinpoint thermal units embedded to defeat the facial thermal rec. units people are so high and might about these days in hardened security? Not possible today? Fine. What about tomorrow? My 2 bits. later
Ken
P.S Yes I know I spell like a butter knife cut oak.
My argument for the opt-In philosophy is this as a resident: I as a consumer have a right NOT to do business with any business I choose (i.e I can boycott). I also have a right to do business with ANY company in the U.S (of course there are exceptions. i.e Necessary permits) Take these two right and stick em in the ground as a base to work from. Now does a company have the right to do business with me without my consent based on the prior said rights? My constitutional basis for those prior rights is: 10th Amendment ".... The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states are reserved to the States respectivly, or to the people." This amendment states that just because we don't have a documented right to privacy, until the government denies us the right to privacy we citizens have the right. Unless the state takes it from us. My opinion.
I like Armegetron. Wish there was a central auth. server to play lan games. Game is a ton of fun with human players.
How about "Final Fantasy: Legacy's End"
For additional insight into the game do some background checking on the names they use in the Final Fantasy (Square) games. There is a lot of Kabbalistic and cultic refrences. Names like Crowley and Stellazo creep up. Also references to classical literature (The Rape of Lucricia I belive is a Shakspeare play.) Half the fun of Final Fantasy games for me is digging up the story behind the names and refernces. Case point: Sephrioth (and the variants on it's spelling) is a Kabbalistic reference to the 12 sephrioths you master to become a god. (I am no means an expert on the topic but that is what I found.) Also the 4 elemental bad guys in the Final Fantasy 2 (US) like Rubicant were refences to creatures from Dante's Divine Comedy (Inferno). There is tons of little stuff in there that makes the games even more enjoyable. Just my comments. Later all.