That's not really a bad idea... I could go into a video game store like EB and buy up a few extremely violent or sexual games. Then I could sell them to kids for 10 bucks more than they cost.
5 kids buy a game and w00t free game for me.
I kind of doubt the chances of cops doing an undercover bust for something like that.
Actually, if you purposly launced something directly at the sun there would be practically no chance of it actually getting there. It would most likely end up in orbit of something, maybe the Sun but who really knows.
Regardless, the easy solution to the whole matter is to declare a section of the air as a "no fly zone." Flights are not something that is simply 'winged' (forgive me) they are planned and approved. Now if you're thinking of terrorists running into it well... I somehow doubt we would have something like this set up in the middle of nowhere without a military presence.
To add to that, one thing about buying a painting from an artist that is similiar to a photog is that you can not make prints.
Just because you bought a painting doesn't give you the right to make prints and sell them. However it does give you the right to display the origonal (there may be limits i'm unaware of)
The same logic will lead you to the bigger version of the same question, "Are video games necesary?"
Nope, but in this supposedly free market country any group or individual should have the right to express themselves however they want. If some 20 year old wants to make a game about decapitation then there should be no ban on his game, he should even be allowed to sell it. That's just freedom of expression right there...
Consider someone's creation like an open ballot, your greenbacks are the vote.
I can assure you that every single dog comes from the wolf family, so perhaps mutation or aberration leads to what we know as evolution.
Bad strains (those that are retarded, weak, unhealthy, or unable) will generally not survive long enough to create a completely new species. Dogs are a notable exception, but the Chihuahua would not have made it as a dog had it not been for humans.
Hell, they wouldn't even exist if not for us. (Native Americans, I'm looking at yoooouuuuuu! Thanks!)/proud owner of a beautiful descendant from the Terrier and Hound.
It'd be easier and safer if I belived that I would die if light touched my skin.
I could live my entire life in a house, never seeing light and always beliving it would destroy me.
I would be safer, and it wouldn't be a very hard life. Yet, I would still be wrong.
Ignorance is not truth.
Personally, I have the "IDEA" (not belief) that God created the universe, like a sandbox, everything inside of it has been the product of the first object set in motion upon it.
Karma for example, is not magic but a belief that once you affect something countless chain reactions are set off. With God I feel that if a God does exist they probably gave our universe a little twirling with his galaxy sized finger and wham! Stuff started happening.
For all you know some other alien race evolved closer to the core of the galaxy, sprawled out, super-evolved humans over 100,000 years ago on Earth, left with the intent to return when we were intelligent enough, got involved with a war, became wiped out, and had their solar system consumed by a black hole.
The point is, no one knows. Even still, believing in ignorance is not going to give your life meaning.
Oh God damnit! Frickin line break
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If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy
daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh
# unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither
# shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon
# him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he
hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
You haven't read all of the bible. Check out Leviticus. (The part about killing your wicked children for talking back to you)
or as a better comparison, Deuteronomy
"# If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy
# daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh
# unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither
# shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon
# him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he
hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage."
Yeah, the bible doesn't say anything about killing "infidels."
Christianity, the relgion of peace.
No, I am not Islamic, as all religion is evil. Currently I believe God built the sandbox and we all play it and mold it as we see fit. Be it our destruction or salvation, we manifest it ourselves.
Nope, just like the kind of blind idiot that voted for the red guy this last election, the halo 2 fanboys will scream, piss, and moan about every single little "problem" they have with halflife 2.
They are the same idiots that keep buying into this console crap, therefore fucking up our (pc users) chances at getting more games. I paid over 1000 dollars for my game console, I expect that the games designed for it should be the latest and greatest in design and technology. Instead we usualy get second-rate crap that went to console first.
The PC does get stuff, it isn't true that we never get anything, however the stuff that comes out most often are games that could just as easily been done on lower-end machines and consoles. MMORPGs also, if you like being a zombie all day playing a game that has no fucking purpose. You can beat other games, but you can't beat an mmorpg, so what do they give you for the trouble? A bunch of shitty items you don't need because you are level 200, or some crap house you can't do anything with. Meh.
At least every blue moon we get something like Halflife 2 or a truly awesome RPG.
Look, when they stop suing people for eleventy-billion dollars then I think it will be immoral to download.
As it stands they will ruin your credit, life, and any property you have because they didn't make 19.99 off of you. They are the real thieves.
I don't advocate piracy, but I do advocate activism, sometimes it goes against the law but that doesn't make it wrong. (Rosa Parks?)
When they start suing for 19.99 or whatever the actual cost is, then we can talk about moral issues.
I never download movies, but now that they're doing this kind of crap I think I will. Don't try and tell me how I'm being "bad" or something, I just don't enjoy the idea of a company suing people to the point where they live the rest of their life without credit or in debt.
If the movie costs 19.99 you should only be able to sue for 19.99.
Say no to corporate fear mongering.
immunity to any human violations too... companys don't go to jail for theft or violations that could land you and me in prison for years. they get fines (if that) which rarely even scath their bank accounts.
hahaha LOL, do you actually think Napster started it? Well they did start the network backlog and opened the floodgates for hapless sheep who need their Avil fix, however I was using mp3s around 1994, and we had a thing called IRC.
...and then, what? I'll have to buy new devices to play an already overpriced CD??? My car doesn't agree with that, my CD player doesn't agree with that, and I don't either.
They [the RIAA's price fixing center] could try lowering the price of a CD from 20 dollars (almost the same price they were in the 80s) to around 13 or less, then you'd see people owning albums over MP3 because the quality would exceed most mp3s and the price. Currently we pay more for less with many albums. I don't buy into all that crappy mainstream stuff but a lot of stupid manufacutured label bands will have 10-13 songs on a CD and charge $21.99 and yet, there will be another with 20 songs, 21.99, wtf is that?
Buy independant bands and boycott all members of the RIAA, the artist's under the labels that belong to this organization are at their own fault. They sold their music out to a faceless company, let them suffer for it, not me.
I am not even much an ST fan but I can tell you that Enterprise is pre-federation. Kirk captained the first FEDERATION Star Ship Enterprise. It's not an origional name either, since it comes from the name of an american military ship (the boat kind).
it's sad, but i actually believe that statement... Arnold at least has power and popularity by his own merit whereas the morons the reps and demos try and spoon-feed us are just avatars for the greed of their organization.
just wondering fuckwit, but what exactly happened when there were no hippies? Oh, that's right, it still happened. There were still fires and while you might call it terrible, i'd call it necesary. Forest Fires are natures way of clearing out the weak, the strong Red Woods usually survive, and those that die decay and make room for lots of new life. We humans just aren't prepared to wait the many many decades this process endures. Remove humans from the planet and you'll still have fires, death, and decay, but at least it'll all be able to do it's part. We seem to think that because we don't follow our nature that it's okay for us to alter the natural order of things. The sad thing is that when we meet our doomsday and we all parish, much of nature will parish as well since "our help" will have fucked over generations of what could have been stronger forests, animals, ect. Eventually the world would right itself for the better, but that's only if we don't take everyone with us for our foolish mistakes.
you don't get called a terrorist for not watching your children. you don't go to prison with no lawyer or legal counsil. you don't get "skipped" for trial either.
Homeland security is not helping us. it is hurting us. Has anyone ever thought that maybe you need some bad to weigh out the good? that is why every government will fail. because eventually, they try so hard to make it a completly one-sided non-evil, non-criminal society that no one has freedom. we didn't need new laws that simply replace the word criminal with terrorist and constitutional rights as "security messures."
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That's not really a bad idea... I could go into a video game store like EB and buy up a few extremely violent or sexual games. Then I could sell them to kids for 10 bucks more than they cost.
5 kids buy a game and w00t free game for me.
I kind of doubt the chances of cops doing an undercover bust for something like that.
Actually, if you purposly launced something directly at the sun there would be practically no chance of it actually getting there. It would most likely end up in orbit of something, maybe the Sun but who really knows.
Regardless, the easy solution to the whole matter is to declare a section of the air as a "no fly zone." Flights are not something that is simply 'winged' (forgive me) they are planned and approved. Now if you're thinking of terrorists running into it well... I somehow doubt we would have something like this set up in the middle of nowhere without a military presence.
To add to that, one thing about buying a painting from an artist that is similiar to a photog is that you can not make prints.
Just because you bought a painting doesn't give you the right to make prints and sell them. However it does give you the right to display the origonal (there may be limits i'm unaware of)
The same logic will lead you to the bigger version of the same question, "Are video games necesary?" Nope, but in this supposedly free market country any group or individual should have the right to express themselves however they want. If some 20 year old wants to make a game about decapitation then there should be no ban on his game, he should even be allowed to sell it. That's just freedom of expression right there... Consider someone's creation like an open ballot, your greenbacks are the vote.
Ramona Lisa Red?
Are dogs not another species?
/proud owner of a beautiful descendant from the Terrier and Hound.
I can assure you that every single dog comes from the wolf family, so perhaps mutation or aberration leads to what we know as evolution.
Bad strains (those that are retarded, weak, unhealthy, or unable) will generally not survive long enough to create a completely new species. Dogs are a notable exception, but the Chihuahua would not have made it as a dog had it not been for humans.
Hell, they wouldn't even exist if not for us. (Native Americans, I'm looking at yoooouuuuuu! Thanks!)
It'd be easier and safer if I belived that I would die if light touched my skin.
I could live my entire life in a house, never seeing light and always beliving it would destroy me.
I would be safer, and it wouldn't be a very hard life. Yet, I would still be wrong.
Ignorance is not truth.
Personally, I have the "IDEA" (not belief) that God created the universe, like a sandbox, everything inside of it has been the product of the first object set in motion upon it.
Karma for example, is not magic but a belief that once you affect something countless chain reactions are set off. With God I feel that if a God does exist they probably gave our universe a little twirling with his galaxy sized finger and wham! Stuff started happening.
For all you know some other alien race evolved closer to the core of the galaxy, sprawled out, super-evolved humans over 100,000 years ago on Earth, left with the intent to return when we were intelligent enough, got involved with a war, became wiped out, and had their solar system consumed by a black hole.
The point is, no one knows. Even still, believing in ignorance is not going to give your life meaning.
Oh God damnit! Frickin line break
--------------- If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy
daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh
# unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither
# shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon
# him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
You haven't read all of the bible. Check out Leviticus. (The part about killing your wicked children for talking back to you) or as a better comparison, Deuteronomy "# If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy # daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh # unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither # shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon # him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage." Yeah, the bible doesn't say anything about killing "infidels." Christianity, the relgion of peace. No, I am not Islamic, as all religion is evil. Currently I believe God built the sandbox and we all play it and mold it as we see fit. Be it our destruction or salvation, we manifest it ourselves.
Nope, just like the kind of blind idiot that voted for the red guy this last election, the halo 2 fanboys will scream, piss, and moan about every single little "problem" they have with halflife 2.
They are the same idiots that keep buying into this console crap, therefore fucking up our (pc users) chances at getting more games. I paid over 1000 dollars for my game console, I expect that the games designed for it should be the latest and greatest in design and technology. Instead we usualy get second-rate crap that went to console first.
The PC does get stuff, it isn't true that we never get anything, however the stuff that comes out most often are games that could just as easily been done on lower-end machines and consoles. MMORPGs also, if you like being a zombie all day playing a game that has no fucking purpose. You can beat other games, but you can't beat an mmorpg, so what do they give you for the trouble? A bunch of shitty items you don't need because you are level 200, or some crap house you can't do anything with. Meh.
At least every blue moon we get something like Halflife 2 or a truly awesome RPG.
Better question, why exactly should there even be a delay. We are living in the god damn future for fucks sake!
damnit. . . I wish slashdot would just auto-add the line breaks.
Look, when they stop suing people for eleventy-billion dollars then I think it will be immoral to download. As it stands they will ruin your credit, life, and any property you have because they didn't make 19.99 off of you. They are the real thieves. I don't advocate piracy, but I do advocate activism, sometimes it goes against the law but that doesn't make it wrong. (Rosa Parks?) When they start suing for 19.99 or whatever the actual cost is, then we can talk about moral issues.
I never download movies, but now that they're doing this kind of crap I think I will. Don't try and tell me how I'm being "bad" or something, I just don't enjoy the idea of a company suing people to the point where they live the rest of their life without credit or in debt. If the movie costs 19.99 you should only be able to sue for 19.99. Say no to corporate fear mongering.
grab all material positions, commit a horrible crime (to justify leaving) and flee the country. the US is begining its downfall to nothingness.
immunity to any human violations too... companys don't go to jail for theft or violations that could land you and me in prison for years. they get fines (if that) which rarely even scath their bank accounts.
hahaha LOL, do you actually think Napster started it? Well they did start the network backlog and opened the floodgates for hapless sheep who need their Avil fix, however I was using mp3s around 1994, and we had a thing called IRC.
...and then, what? I'll have to buy new devices to play an already overpriced CD??? My car doesn't agree with that, my CD player doesn't agree with that, and I don't either.
They [the RIAA's price fixing center] could try lowering the price of a CD from 20 dollars (almost the same price they were in the 80s) to around 13 or less, then you'd see people owning albums over MP3 because the quality would exceed most mp3s and the price. Currently we pay more for less with many albums. I don't buy into all that crappy mainstream stuff but a lot of stupid manufacutured label bands will have 10-13 songs on a CD and charge $21.99 and yet, there will be another with 20 songs, 21.99, wtf is that?
Buy independant bands and boycott all members of the RIAA, the artist's under the labels that belong to this organization are at their own fault. They sold their music out to a faceless company, let them suffer for it, not me.
Somehow I doubt it will support Moron-Speak.
I am not even much an ST fan but I can tell you that Enterprise is pre-federation. Kirk captained the first FEDERATION Star Ship Enterprise. It's not an origional name either, since it comes from the name of an american military ship (the boat kind).
it's sad, but i actually believe that statement... Arnold at least has power and popularity by his own merit whereas the morons the reps and demos try and spoon-feed us are just avatars for the greed of their organization.
just wondering fuckwit, but what exactly happened when there were no hippies? Oh, that's right, it still happened. There were still fires and while you might call it terrible, i'd call it necesary. Forest Fires are natures way of clearing out the weak, the strong Red Woods usually survive, and those that die decay and make room for lots of new life. We humans just aren't prepared to wait the many many decades this process endures. Remove humans from the planet and you'll still have fires, death, and decay, but at least it'll all be able to do it's part. We seem to think that because we don't follow our nature that it's okay for us to alter the natural order of things. The sad thing is that when we meet our doomsday and we all parish, much of nature will parish as well since "our help" will have fucked over generations of what could have been stronger forests, animals, ect. Eventually the world would right itself for the better, but that's only if we don't take everyone with us for our foolish mistakes.
you don't get called a terrorist for not watching your children. you don't go to prison with no lawyer or legal counsil. you don't get "skipped" for trial either.
Homeland security is not helping us. it is hurting us. Has anyone ever thought that maybe you need some bad to weigh out the good? that is why every government will fail. because eventually, they try so hard to make it a completly one-sided non-evil, non-criminal society that no one has freedom. we didn't need new laws that simply replace the word criminal with terrorist and constitutional rights as "security messures."
No one on Slashdot EVER says that lol.
thats not the password... mysql spits out PASSWORD in place of what would actually be the password.