A whole lot of the games on Steam are already available DRM-free if you buy them at gog.com. I now ALWAYS check there first to buy an unlocked copy before even considering buying the game at Steam.
humblebundle.com will often give you drm free downloads and a steam key, though less so for the aaa games where i've noticed a lot of key only sales
So the one most outrageous statement getting me modded to hell, about how by next year we'll have cat 6 or 7?
It seems unfortunate that you should be 'modded to hell' when all that is necessary is to mention that there is currently no higher number on the agreed scale used in the northern hemisphere than 5. the history of the current scale can be read here (warning: it's wikpedia fwiw) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...–Simpson_hurricane_wind_scale whether a revision of the scale is necessary is of course a good question. the history of the scale also mentions the attempt to encompass in one number not just a particular physical characteristic of the storm but its effect on property and population. i'm rather surprised that we don't then describe storms with perhaps 2 or 3 numbers/letters to compromise better between brevity and usefulness.
Well done, those are the definitions of VHF and UHF, but I guarantee no phone service ever ran on the entire VHF or UHF band.
for what it's worth, from wikipedia: "The Improved Mobile Telephone Service (IMTS) is a pre-cellular VHF/UHF radio system that links to the PSTN. IMTS was the radiotelephone equivalent of land dial phone service."
Any appearance that we might have of a vastly older age may be as I said, nothing but an artifact of assumptions that we are making today based on our experiences.
so like me you are a member of The Church of Last Thursday?
Always remember the law is about rigorous logic. It has absolutely nothing to do with common sense.
strict logic leads to the conclusion that either, she can sell prints in any size except the one that he did including ones that are merely mm different, or she can't sell any size at all. if the transformative things is to sell in a gallery then if she doesn't do that then she isn't appropriating his work. if the transformative thing is the size of print then any other size is also not his work. if the transfomative thing is selling prints at any size then she can't sell her work at all in physical form and i doubt that any court would tolerate that. the absurd conclusions that are reached by applying strict logic to the premises here tell us that one of the premises is wrong
AA candidates never do well, and all they do is hurt minorities. People see how badly they perform then they assume other people of the same race are just as bad
so these people are already racist then? otherwise the number of obviously shitty white people would have them believing there are no competent people anywhere on the planet at all.
In what way is the state of Kentucky establishing an official religion, or inhibiting other people from practicing their own religion, by granting tax breaks and incentives to the park?
if that were all, kentucky wouldn't be establishing blah blah, but by giving tax breaks to a park which _then_ only employs certain religious people by discriminating in its employment practices it is establishing etc. because tax payers (the state's) money is then being used in a religiously discriminatory fashion in employment, just as it would be wrong for the state itself to discriminate in such a fashion when employing its own workers.
As of 2006, if the police catch a mugger, robber, or burglar, or other “minor” criminal in the act, the policy is to release them with a warning rather than to arrest and prosecute them.
as my own daughter was mugged, _not_ in the presence of the police and the perpetrator still prosecuted and found guilty i call bullshit
Canada is not a one-party-consent polity for recording conversations, IIRC.,
it would be a measure of how civilised a society is, if, when such a conversation is recorded - albeit illegally - by a private individual and published; how the response by the state is balanced between punishing the recorder of the conversation and the corrupt person and crimes revealed by the publication of the conversation.
i leave it to the reader to decide what level of balance they wuld wish for in their version of civilisation:)
all you do is negotiate terms of your own contract.
oh ffs, even if everyone on the planet had the best posible education and skills training that their brains and bodies could attain, the enormous majority would still be 'wage slaves' unable to negotiate the terms of a contract because the jobs where that would be possible would be so few compared to the number of job seekers, capitalism requires that there are winners, and winners are defined by the prescence of 'losers', and there need to be many more of the latter than the former. note, this is not a call for communism, merely an observation that humanity is far from developing a sane way of ordering its affairs
In prior discussions APK kept dodging questions about whether or not he has been diagnosed as mentally ill in some way by a psychologist or psychiatrist. He never would say yes or no to that one
and why in arse cunting fuck should he? what business is that of anyone about anyone on here?
It was against the self-contradicting phenomenon called "gay marriage".
gay marriage is only 'self-contradicting' if marriage is defined as not involving same sex unions, marriage is a human invention, it does not arise from the facts of physics, chemistry, biology or any other natural process, neither does it arise from basic philosophical or ethical thought. a society is free to define 'marriage' how it likes. prop 8 was an argument about definitions, just because the proponents (not all though) claimed that god was on their side and that therefore 'marriage' was somehow akin to a physical property of the universe does not make it so.
even if the economics make it worthwhile to print my own stuff, there are some items that will need to be trusted for their safety and or performance characteristics. you won't catch me printing my own car tyres (or even my car) if i can't trust the printer to have the necesary reliability and tolerances and the design to be safe.
for these requirements we will still need a way to trust the source of designs and the actual manufacturing device, individuals will therefore be able to aquire money/status/chicks/guys/food/whatever by being a) skilled and knowledgeable, b) in possession of 'industrial' printers. one might imagine that once a design has been proven then only the proper printer is necessary and the requirement for skill and knowledge in design becomes less important. but i envisage a world in which 3d printing allows for greater and greater customisation of our possessions, at which point 'one size fits all' designs become insufficient and the need to consult with the local guru arises.
If I have all necessity plus a few luxuries, I'm not going to work as a garbage man. if everyone has all they need but no-one wants to be a dustman, then the first person to volunteer gets to be a hero! and get lots of luxuries and the girls/boys, if not they simply refuse to do it anymore, it becomes everyone else's problem how they work that out, unless of course you force someone to do it, criminal punishment perhaps? or a caste system, speaking of which, isn't that an asimov story?
If you're really looking for unbiased, I'd get 2 opposing papers and try to read the same story delivered by both - if you read the Guardian and the Daily Mail, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
i'd suggest the telegraph as a counter to the guardian, the daily mail is just a paper for cunts
85 people own as much as the bottom 350000000 people on earth combined - supposedly - (not half the planets wealth as reported because of course the bottom 350000000 people don't own that much) but still a metric fuck ton of planetary resources control.:)
85 divided by 7 billion =~ 0.00000121%, i think you over estimate the size of the world government there.
Slashdot Mirror
No troll. Gaming in a VM is fine, depending upon the game. If it's a AAA recent game, then no.
for the record, i play witcher3 in ultra in a vm. :)
the catch is of course that i have a dedicated graphics card passed through for the purpose
sake
Well me and my friends had to play Doom while carrying the data packets by hand
by hand? hah!
we played via pigeon!
snake
A whole lot of the games on Steam are already available DRM-free if you buy them at gog.com. I now ALWAYS check there first to buy an unlocked copy before even considering buying the game at Steam.
humblebundle.com will often give you drm free downloads and a steam key, though less so for the aaa games where i've noticed a lot of key only sales
snake
So the one most outrageous statement getting me modded to hell, about how by next year we'll have cat 6 or 7?
It seems unfortunate that you should be 'modded to hell' when all that is necessary is to mention that there is currently no higher number on the agreed scale used in the northern hemisphere than 5. the history of the current scale can be read here (warning: it's wikpedia fwiw) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...–Simpson_hurricane_wind_scale
whether a revision of the scale is necessary is of course a good question. the history of the scale also mentions the attempt to encompass in one number not just a particular physical characteristic of the storm but its effect on property and population. i'm rather surprised that we don't then describe storms with perhaps 2 or 3 numbers/letters to compromise better between brevity and usefulness.
snake
Well done, those are the definitions of VHF and UHF, but I guarantee no phone service ever ran on the entire VHF or UHF band.
for what it's worth, from wikipedia:
"The Improved Mobile Telephone Service (IMTS) is a pre-cellular VHF/UHF radio system that links to the PSTN. IMTS was the radiotelephone equivalent of land dial phone service."
snake
Any appearance that we might have of a vastly older age may be as I said, nothing but an artifact of assumptions that we are making today based on our experiences.
so like me you are a member of The Church of Last Thursday?
snake
Is pub culture that engrained in the UK that a fucking LUG has to meet there.
i don't know about oz (but i can guess) but in the uk everyone has to meet at the pub, it's the law
Always remember the law is about rigorous logic. It has absolutely nothing to do with common sense.
strict logic leads to the conclusion that either, she can sell prints in any size except the one that he did including ones that are merely mm different, or she can't sell any size at all. if the transformative things is to sell in a gallery then if she doesn't do that then she isn't appropriating his work. if the transformative thing is the size of print then any other size is also not his work. if the transfomative thing is selling prints at any size then she can't sell her work at all in physical form and i doubt that any court would tolerate that.
the absurd conclusions that are reached by applying strict logic to the premises here tell us that one of the premises is wrong
AA candidates never do well, and all they do is hurt minorities. People see how badly they perform then they assume other people of the same race are just as bad
so these people are already racist then? otherwise the number of obviously shitty white people would have them believing there are no competent people anywhere on the planet at all.
or perhaps the racism lies elsewhere?
In what way is the state of Kentucky establishing an official religion, or inhibiting other people from practicing their own religion, by granting tax breaks and incentives to the park?
if that were all, kentucky wouldn't be establishing blah blah, but by giving tax breaks to a park which _then_ only employs certain religious people by discriminating in its employment practices it is establishing etc. because tax payers (the state's) money is then being used in a religiously discriminatory fashion in employment, just as it would be wrong for the state itself to discriminate in such a fashion when employing its own workers.
snake
whoops, wrong mod, sorry :(
As of 2006, if the police catch a mugger, robber, or burglar, or other “minor” criminal in the act, the policy is to release them with a warning rather than to arrest and prosecute them.
as my own daughter was mugged, _not_ in the presence of the police and the perpetrator still prosecuted and found guilty i call bullshit
snake
Canada is not a one-party-consent polity for recording conversations, IIRC.,
it would be a measure of how civilised a society is, if, when such a conversation is recorded - albeit illegally - by a private individual and published; how the response by the state is balanced between punishing the recorder of the conversation and the corrupt person and crimes revealed by the publication of the conversation.
i leave it to the reader to decide what level of balance they wuld wish for in their version of civilisation :)
snake
all you do is negotiate terms of your own contract.
oh ffs,
even if everyone on the planet had the best posible education and skills training that their brains and bodies could attain, the enormous majority would still be 'wage slaves' unable to negotiate the terms of a contract because the jobs where that would be possible would be so few compared to the number of job seekers, capitalism requires that there are winners, and winners are defined by the prescence of 'losers', and there need to be many more of the latter than the former.
note, this is not a call for communism, merely an observation that humanity is far from developing a sane way of ordering its affairs
In prior discussions APK kept dodging questions about whether or not he has been diagnosed as mentally ill in some way by a psychologist or psychiatrist. He never would say yes or no to that one
and why in arse cunting fuck should he? what business is that of anyone about anyone on here?
crap, wrong moderation, sorry :(
It was against the self-contradicting phenomenon called "gay marriage".
gay marriage is only 'self-contradicting' if marriage is defined as not involving same sex unions, marriage is a human invention, it does not arise from the facts of physics, chemistry, biology or any other natural process, neither does it arise from basic philosophical or ethical thought. a society is free to define 'marriage' how it likes. prop 8 was an argument about definitions, just because the proponents (not all though) claimed that god was on their side and that therefore 'marriage' was somehow akin to a physical property of the universe does not make it so.
snake
even if the economics make it worthwhile to print my own stuff, there are some items that will need to be trusted for their safety and or performance characteristics.
you won't catch me printing my own car tyres (or even my car) if i can't trust the printer to have the necesary reliability and tolerances and the design to be safe.
for these requirements we will still need a way to trust the source of designs and the actual manufacturing device, individuals will therefore be able to aquire money/status/chicks/guys/food/whatever by being a) skilled and knowledgeable, b) in possession of 'industrial' printers.
one might imagine that once a design has been proven then only the proper printer is necessary and the requirement for skill and knowledge in design becomes less important. but i envisage a world in which 3d printing allows for greater and greater customisation of our possessions, at which point 'one size fits all' designs become insufficient and the need to consult with the local guru arises.
snake
and have a fanatical devotion to the Pope.
and their chief weapon...?
...since unrestricted garnishing doesn't seem to be particularly fair.
i'd prefer a single olympic standard mayonnaise!
If I have all necessity plus a few luxuries, I'm not going to work as a garbage man.
if everyone has all they need but no-one wants to be a dustman, then the first person to volunteer gets to be a hero! and get lots of luxuries and the girls/boys, if not they simply refuse to do it anymore, it becomes everyone else's problem how they work that out, unless of course you force someone to do it, criminal punishment perhaps? or a caste system, speaking of which, isn't that an asimov story?
snake
Let's hope that they don't make the same mistakes again.
who, microsoft, or the abandoned purchasers?
If you're really looking for unbiased, I'd get 2 opposing papers and try to read the same story delivered by both - if you read the Guardian and the Daily Mail, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
i'd suggest the telegraph as a counter to the guardian, the daily mail is just a paper for cunts
snake
This thing has Disaster Area written all over it. They must be scheduled for a gig on Earth soon!
the sound stage will be on earth, the band of course, will be on the moon!
a world government for the .000001%
hmmm,
85 people own as much as the bottom 350000000 people on earth combined - supposedly - (not half the planets wealth as reported because of course the bottom 350000000 people don't own that much) but still a metric fuck ton of planetary resources control. :)
85 divided by 7 billion =~ 0.00000121%, i think you over estimate the size of the world government there.