" higher chance of success, due to not having to actually land on the asteroid's surface."
ok. didn't we already land a craft on an asteroid? in fact didn't we land a craft that was not designed for that purpose and actually get back info once it was landed? so we know that while not exactly easy it's not impossible.
i forget the name of the craft and am too lazy to search. but i'm sure i'm not the only one that remembers how cool that mission was.
good point. i almost wonder if those trying to run a check point would choose the ones with these over the ones with AUTOMATIC WEAPONS. we may be setting ourselves up for more attempts(at running check points), and with that, more chances of people getting killed in the fog of war.
here's a thought. the only safe way to avoid possible eye damage, and the bullets that are almost sure to follow. DON'T RUN CHECK POINTS AND ROAD BLOCKS!
for those that are still confused the Geneva Convention does not apply to non military personnel. think of it as a reward to armies that play well with each other(with in the rules of war).
am i the only one with a credit card that has online fraud protection? i don't remember the last time i actually worried about my credit card number being stolen. every time i've disputed a charge that i didn't make or that i was not happy with, it was removed and i paid NOTHING.
there are plenty of credit card companies out there! use the competition to your advantage! credit card companies are one of the few places where you can still get good customer service.
i always get a kick out of new things to detect and report traffic... when you live in an area where traffic is always bad for every route, what's to detect? you know it's going to suck and take forever to get to work. leave early.
losing? what war are you talking about? seems to me everything is way ahead of every best case pre-war senerio i've seen. now if your buying into the monday morning quarter back, post invasion, post capture of saddam the sky is falling, quagmire guagmire rhetoric... well then yes the war is lost and we will all be dead soon. you do realize that the military was planing and purchasing 10's of thousands of body bags for US troops before we invaded don't you? i'd say that they are doing a great job because here we are 2+ years later and we've not even used 2000 of those body bags. compare that to one day of island hoping war fare in WWII.
"If you're not a troll, you're an idiot"
i think you're the one trolling or posing as an idiot.
for me if this is the kind of crap(innovation) we get with it. that would get old very quick. as if my phone doesn't interrupt my life enough, i need to add spam to it too?
i'd just reply to sender and cost them money. via used bandwidth. unfortunately most spam never has a real reply-to address. when i get snail mail credit card offers with postage paid envelopes i like to fill them with other credit card companies offers and mail them back costing them money. it doesn't do anything but make me feel better and cost them a little money. but if enough people did it... they'd have to rethink their model.
does MS make any money from spam? it can't be that much if they do. is there not a market they have their fingers in?
i've been reading this thread and lamenting the fact that it's going to get really bad and i'm going to have to either fork out the money or resort to breaking their DRM. then i remembered it's been over a year since hollywood or the music industry has produced anything worth paying for let alone stealing... sad really.
casino's for the most part do NOT want you to leave. if you leave they don't have a shot at the money you may still have in your pocket. what they might do IF you are counting and manage to make some money off them is lower the table limit so you can't take advantage of a good run, but they still get your money in the end. if they ask you to leave they will not get their money back.
back when i worked in a casino i had this guy buy in for a couple hundred bucks on a crap game. i was handing the money into the box person and was joking that the money looked fake. he thought i was serious and so looked at it a little more then i had. turns out it was counterfeit and security pulled the guy off the game. turns out after talking to him and running back the tape, he was passed the bogus money from our our cash cage!
the RFID in the chips is a good idea. we once had some bogus 100's come in one afternoon and everyone knew about them but i was still finding them a day later in "clean" banks. if they were all RFID'd you could scan a whole bank and see if it matches what you have down on paper as the proper amount. short a few 100 then there must be some bogus chips in there someplace better take a good long look.
as far as the cheating goes. the only place it's even worth trying is on a crap game with two of the dealers in on it. when the stick person is watching the dealer who's in on it, that's when you pass off a stack of chips. nothing too high for you might call attention, maybe $100.00.you only do a few hundred a night on a BUSY game other wise they will spot you quick, greed is bad. craps is a very verbal game, unlike BJ where everything is done with hand gestures and easy for servailance to watch. in the years that i dealt craps never did servailance call down and ask about a payout we made or about any of the action on the game. it moves too fast and is too verbal for them to know what's going on. if you have a busy game and no box person or floor watching, you could very easy hand off a "payout" that was not legit and nobody would ask or care. there were many many times where i would book a bet verbaly without seeing the actual money on the table and the dice would roll and the person would either win or lose and they would payup or i'd pay them and there was NO money any where to be seen before that moment for the camera. which is why you are always nice to the crap dealer in front of you and watch what you joke around about, i've booked bets that people were joking about, at that point they pay up or they get escorted out of the casino. that was always my favorite way to get rid of people that pissed me off.
wreaking havoc on our country? i'm not seeing any of this so called havoc. enough of this "the sky is falling" crap. with doom sayers crying wolf none stop for the past 5 years, what's going to happen if doom ever does come around? nobody is going to believe you.
for the record, i'm not exactly happy with the way Bush is running things right now, i'm just not stupid enough to think it's as bad as some would have us believe. no matter who's in charge or how bad or good things get, life goes on and there will always be people who are not happy and bitch and cry that the president is the worst ever. remember all the crap said about Clinton? in the end, Bush will not kill all your children and starve all the old people and lynch all the minorities and what ever boogie men the michael moores of the world can come up with. we'll all be just fine and owe more taxes then we did the year before.
besides if Bush were really a psycho, we'd have an inch of glass covering the middles east keeping our oil reserves safe.
when things like this keep getting said it really cheapens the meaning of torture to the point that if it really did start happening nobody will listen or care anymore. you do a great disservice to truth by continuing to spread these types of lies.
"suspects" because they look like they may have a bomb, and you're worried they might want your encryption key? if you're not a terrorist why would you care. they can waste their time in my junk all day long.
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" higher chance of success, due to not having to actually land on the asteroid's surface."
ok. didn't we already land a craft on an asteroid? in fact didn't we land a craft that was not designed for that purpose and actually get back info once it was landed? so we know that while not exactly easy it's not impossible.
i forget the name of the craft and am too lazy to search. but i'm sure i'm not the only one that remembers how cool that mission was.
i favor the blow asteroids up option.
"this issue is making Kansas a laughing stock" umm... they were a laughing stock BEFORE this came about.
"LOTS OF AUTOMATIC WEAPONS"
good point. i almost wonder if those trying to run a check point would choose the ones with these over the ones with AUTOMATIC WEAPONS. we may be setting ourselves up for more attempts(at running check points), and with that, more chances of people getting killed in the fog of war.
here's a thought. the only safe way to avoid possible eye damage, and the bullets that are almost sure to follow. DON'T RUN CHECK POINTS AND ROAD BLOCKS!
for those that are still confused the Geneva Convention does not apply to non military personnel. think of it as a reward to armies that play well with each other(with in the rules of war).
into the wild?
higher income taxes != better schools. i submit the Portland Oregon public school system as an example.
"company license plates"?
i thought only the state gave out plates? wow that is a big business.
"Nobody would ever misuse that, right?"
am i the only one with a credit card that has online fraud protection? i don't remember the last time i actually worried about my credit card number being stolen. every time i've disputed a charge that i didn't make or that i was not happy with, it was removed and i paid NOTHING.
there are plenty of credit card companies out there! use the competition to your advantage! credit card companies are one of the few places where you can still get good customer service.
i always get a kick out of new things to detect and report traffic... when you live in an area where traffic is always bad for every route, what's to detect? you know it's going to suck and take forever to get to work. leave early.
i didn't get the memo.
what do we do with all the left over CRT's? land fills?
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that would be the hero of canton the man they call Jayne. Jayne Cobb.
losing? what war are you talking about? seems to me everything is way ahead of every best case pre-war senerio i've seen. now if your buying into the monday morning quarter back, post invasion, post capture of saddam the sky is falling, quagmire guagmire rhetoric... well then yes the war is lost and we will all be dead soon. you do realize that the military was planing and purchasing 10's of thousands of body bags for US troops before we invaded don't you? i'd say that they are doing a great job because here we are 2+ years later and we've not even used 2000 of those body bags. compare that to one day of island hoping war fare in WWII.
"If you're not a troll, you're an idiot"
i think you're the one trolling or posing as an idiot.
for me if this is the kind of crap(innovation) we get with it. that would get old very quick. as if my phone doesn't interrupt my life enough, i need to add spam to it too?
no thanks
i'd just reply to sender and cost them money. via used bandwidth. unfortunately most spam never has a real reply-to address. when i get snail mail credit card offers with postage paid envelopes i like to fill them with other credit card companies offers and mail them back costing them money. it doesn't do anything but make me feel better and cost them a little money. but if enough people did it... they'd have to rethink their model.
does MS make any money from spam? it can't be that much if they do. is there not a market they have their fingers in?
i've been reading this thread and lamenting the fact that it's going to get really bad and i'm going to have to either fork out the money or resort to breaking their DRM. then i remembered it's been over a year since hollywood or the music industry has produced anything worth paying for let alone stealing... sad really.
"light-cone" FINALLY! i've been looking for something to go with my cone of cold! mages rejoice!
/dance
casino's for the most part do NOT want you to leave. if you leave they don't have a shot at the money you may still have in your pocket. what they might do IF you are counting and manage to make some money off them is lower the table limit so you can't take advantage of a good run, but they still get your money in the end. if they ask you to leave they will not get their money back.
back when i worked in a casino i had this guy buy in for a couple hundred bucks on a crap game. i was handing the money into the box person and was joking that the money looked fake. he thought i was serious and so looked at it a little more then i had. turns out it was counterfeit and security pulled the guy off the game. turns out after talking to him and running back the tape, he was passed the bogus money from our our cash cage!
the RFID in the chips is a good idea. we once had some bogus 100's come in one afternoon and everyone knew about them but i was still finding them a day later in "clean" banks. if they were all RFID'd you could scan a whole bank and see if it matches what you have down on paper as the proper amount. short a few 100 then there must be some bogus chips in there someplace better take a good long look.
as far as the cheating goes. the only place it's even worth trying is on a crap game with two of the dealers in on it. when the stick person is watching the dealer who's in on it, that's when you pass off a stack of chips. nothing too high for you might call attention, maybe $100.00.you only do a few hundred a night on a BUSY game other wise they will spot you quick, greed is bad. craps is a very verbal game, unlike BJ where everything is done with hand gestures and easy for servailance to watch. in the years that i dealt craps never did servailance call down and ask about a payout we made or about any of the action on the game. it moves too fast and is too verbal for them to know what's going on. if you have a busy game and no box person or floor watching, you could very easy hand off a "payout" that was not legit and nobody would ask or care. there were many many times where i would book a bet verbaly without seeing the actual money on the table and the dice would roll and the person would either win or lose and they would payup or i'd pay them and there was NO money any where to be seen before that moment for the camera. which is why you are always nice to the crap dealer in front of you and watch what you joke around about, i've booked bets that people were joking about, at that point they pay up or they get escorted out of the casino. that was always my favorite way to get rid of people that pissed me off.
wreaking havoc on our country? i'm not seeing any of this so called havoc. enough of this "the sky is falling" crap. with doom sayers crying wolf none stop for the past 5 years, what's going to happen if doom ever does come around? nobody is going to believe you.
for the record, i'm not exactly happy with the way Bush is running things right now, i'm just not stupid enough to think it's as bad as some would have us believe. no matter who's in charge or how bad or good things get, life goes on and there will always be people who are not happy and bitch and cry that the president is the worst ever. remember all the crap said about Clinton? in the end, Bush will not kill all your children and starve all the old people and lynch all the minorities and what ever boogie men the michael moores of the world can come up with. we'll all be just fine and owe more taxes then we did the year before.
besides if Bush were really a psycho, we'd have an inch of glass covering the middles east keeping our oil reserves safe.
your cheap internet games are weak.
[1] Is he glib and superficially charming?
[2] Does he have a grandiose sense of self-worth?
[3] Is he a pathological liar?
no need to continue, you get the point.
Bush will be gone soon enough, get over it.
i thought the google logo would be upside down. :(
"US military's widespread and continuing torture"
when things like this keep getting said it really cheapens the meaning of torture to the point that if it really did start happening nobody will listen or care anymore. you do a great disservice to truth by continuing to spread these types of lies.
"suspects" because they look like they may have a bomb, and you're worried they might want your encryption key? if you're not a terrorist why would you care. they can waste their time in my junk all day long.
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