the opening night viewing has come and gone? I mean, even if the movie were to meet with expectations (unlikely), it must produce a large vacuum in one's life to have all that build up and then not continue one's assumed vocation anymore.
I couldn't find anything about what country order they're releasing it in. Will the US get it first round this time or will we have to wait for it? What possible reason do they have at this point (considering its success stateside) for delaying?
This is not uncommon, most states claim the right to tax things purchased outside of the state and will be used primarily within their own.
Quite true. I have to wonder though whether there would be more public pushback if it was given a more apt name like "buying tax". After all it isn't the sale that's being taxed (it isn't the seller's state that's important), it's the buyer.
IMHO, if they want to continue calling it a sales tax, they should tax the seller and the price listed is the final price to the consumer. This would mean no more silliness about trying to figure out the over-the-top tax rates when one buys goods, no stupid use tax traps, and make interstate commerce a LOT easier (calculating tax often requires knowing the actual municipality based on zip code -- quite a pain the tuckus).
JMS (lord master of all things B5) wrote an interesting USENET article on how these folks actually get paid. Don't get me wrong, the RIAA/MPAA are still talking out of their arse in many ways, but it does give some perspective.
"This certainly will not get them any aid as the U.S. (generally) won't deal kindly with blackmail or extortion."
OMFG! What a load of steaming shit.
Actually, the U.S. uses blackmail and extortion whenever it pleases!!!
If you had bothered to actually read the quote, you may have noticed that it made no mention on the U.S. use of blackmail and extortion -- only that we don't take kindly to it when it is applied to us.
OTOH, I don't think the U.S. has used its position nearly as much as it could have if it chose to over time. There are plenty of times throughout recent U.S. history that the U.S. could have been much more pushy than it actually has been.
The overall point of the grandparent post is that getting nukes is NOT going to help the DPRK's position and ultimately will only server to hurt their people further. They're not likely to get what they want (power in the region) not are they likely to get aid as a result of these actions.
*Kindly rolls up Bullshits_in_the_dark's post and shoves it up his ass*
* Respectfully yanks the sh!te covered grandparent post back out of his behind and whacks the AC neatly, but firmly. over the head with it *
Bad AC, Bad! Next time at least post with your real account.
Ah, what the hell. I really didn't need the Karma anyway...
It's not illegal for North Korea to develop nuclear weapons.
Nope, not illegal. Monumentally stupid. This certainly will not get them any aid as the U.S. (generally) won't deal kindly with blackmail or extortion.
Bush has tossed away several treaties we've already signed regarding development of nuclear weapons. We're not special children of God's army, so the privilege is open to other nations now.
No, we're not God's army. However, neither are they and we are still the guy with the biggest stick on the playground. Although that may change someday, right now we have some leverage to dictate some terms as to how things are going to be run if our monetary resources are to be used by other countries for things like, say, Tsunami relief.
They are busy starving, and not menacing us.
The people of the so-called Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea -- meaning those who do not weild military power -- are definitely starving and hardly menacing on their own. Those in power, however, are quite menacing to South Korea, Japan, China, Russia, etc. Many of those nations are our friends (or at least temporarily friendly to us), and deserve some assistance.
They have been explicitly informed by Bush that he is going to make a point of destroying them. They have an excellent case for defending themselves. They have a logical case that possessing the weapons deters an invasion by Bush. By Bushian logic, we haven't invaded, so possessing the nukes keeps us out. Q.E.D.
The people that are more likely to invade are actually China and Russia if the DPRK gets really out of hand. However, we may very well help those countries if need be. Bush did not specifically make any statement to the effect of destroying the countries, BTW, he was only referring to the regimes that have driven them into the ground.
They aren't going to attack anyone with the damned things. It would be instant suicide.
The danger to the U.S. is in the sale of the arms to terrorists. There is already some evidence pointing to sales of the material to Libya and Pakistan (as well as apparently Iran). We are definitely vulnerable through a number of routes to all sorts of attack, either directly or through our interests abroad.
Besides that -- it only seems instant suicide until they actually try it. Suppose they did use one. What would happen? I'd bet very little for a long time. The political ramifications of the U.S. nuking them in retailiation would make it very unlikely.
CNN would be roasting radioactive weenies on their ashes in a month, chuckling at the wonderfulness of it all.
I call BS on that. CNN would be all over how it was the U.S.'s fault that DPRK, directly or indirectly, attacked.
Wrapup: they have the weapons for the exact same reason the U.S. claimed it needed ours. Deterence.
Perhaps. But that sort of defense comes with a price (need for vigilence, even more International irritation, more drain on their already thin economy). I doubt they're really ready to pay for it. More likely, they'll just get more and more desperate, and desperate people with big weapons are always a danger.
Keep in mind that we were not making any particular hostile overtures toward them until they decided to renig on the various treaties with us when we were still willing to deal with them one-on-one (no reason to continue that since it didn't help before). It was only after the nuclear programs got some traction (and we were attacked in an unrealted incident) that Bush made his axis of evil speech. This deterrance was concocted during a time when noone was really paying them any attention. DPRK's nuclearizing is more of a tantrum
Although I tend to agree (B5 best sci-fi ever), I see a lot of B5 season 1 in BSG. BSG right now, as B5 was in season 1, is a bit more episodic than the later seasons of B5. Character and background development is taking front-seat to arc development, although it is clear that the arc is quietly percolating away and will likely come to the foreground soon. Although the arc was always there, B5 had more episodic than arc episodes in season 1, a balance in season 2, more arc than episodic in season 3, and season 4 was almost all arc. I won't get into season 5 since it really was "empire building" (JMS's term).
Quite frankly, if allowed to, I can see BSG doing something similar (in depth of arc). It just takes some time to get all the balls in the air at once.
I think they're referring to the method of entry -- poorly configured mySQL instances (with open or common root passwords). Once in, the Windows level security takes over and the worm can act pretty freely it seems.
Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that all of the message IDs in this thread start with 1138 (that magic number that the article claims Lucas sticks in all of his films)?
Anyone watch the Cartoon Network at all this last Thanksgiving holiday? They ran The Iron Giant and then The Prince of Egypt, two (admittedly children's) movies I have enjoyed. Now, I am in the camp that would prefer that the leave the credits alone. Hell, I'd love for them to take the stupid bugs off. But CN, after showing a commercial once every five bloomin' minutes during The Iron Giant decided to crunch even more content by running the introduction to The Prince of Egypt during the end credits of The Iron Giant.
Don't get me wrong, I love CN, especially Adult Swim, but this silliness needs to end. I'm paying for this stupid channel. Not only am I saddled with commercials (which I shouldn't really be on a cable channel), but they are optimizing their commercial time, not their programming time.
Needless to say, CN was not on my list of things to be Thankful for this year.
Secretary of State spokeswoman Jenny Nash said all counties using this system had been told that such problems would occur if a precinct is set up in a way that would allow votes to get above 32,000. She said Broward should have split the absentee ballots into four separate precincts to avoid that and that a Broward elections employee since has admitted to not doing that.
Signed 16-bit short anyone?
I can understand using signed numbers here -- at least the error would be obvious -- assuming noone just absolute values away the sign thinking they're clever. But how memory-limited are these systems not to at least use 24-bit or better yet 32-bit ints here? Is it really that much of a space savings to warrant districts subdividing becase the companies can't afford a little more memory in these things?
I bought the first two special editions and plan on buying the final one too, but not any of the "normal" editions. I do not know of anyone who bought all of the versions, that is a stupid waste of money.
I bought both editions of the first two and am planning to complete the extended set in December (already have the theatrical ROTK of course). Call me stupid if you must but I am willing to shell out the cash for one simple reason: I belive in sponsoring the things that I particularly like. Hollywood doesn't send me a ballot to let them know that I want more LOTR quality stuff, so I vote with my wallet. I don't buy many DVDs, but I felt this series was worthy of an exception. YMMV.
Oh, and BTW (from grandparent post):
Any 'Rings' fan who was stupid enough to buy each and every DVD that was put out for this trilogy is too dumb to be allowed to reproduce. Fortunately, anyone who is that rabid a fan of this stuff probably wasn't going to be reproducing anyway, so the universe balances out.
My wife of five years and I are happily expecting our first child in January and we both have enjoyed the trilogy thoroughly. So, I guess that's just one more moronic theory out the window -- or else the universe is about the end -- I leave it to the reader to judge.
When you get Mod Points, it's easier to give everyone a chance with the Threshold at 1.
When I'm modding, I usually browse at -1. But even then, until I find a story I want to moderate (one I actually know something about), I tend to stay at level 3...
Okay, so I'm going OT on this but it has to be said. There really needs to be some way in/. to allow raising the view-priority of a parent post based on some selection in the child post. Take the parent post as an example. On my screen it looked like DAldredge (2353) was replying to spin2cool (651536). When clicking on spin2cool's home, I see a nice reasonable home page -- nothing controversial. In reality however, DAldredge is replying to the (hidden on my screen) ancestor suso (153703), whose home page seems to be advocating Communism as if it were a new idea.
My wish list item for/. would be for DAldredge to have a check box during a reply post to tell my viewing of the page to raise the parent up a bit so that I can see the thread correctly. This happens a lot when browsing at score 3 for me and constantly clicking on Parent to make sure I understood the context is getting annoying.
Anyway, enough of my whining. I just had to get that off my chest.
There's only one logical conclusion: we are the first ones, the first race to appear.
Do we live up to that idea?
Where's my immortality then? I don't know about you, but I'm not going to be stuck at the bottom of the pit of Z'ha'dum for a couple million years waiting for some dude, being possessed into thinking he is the "One" by an enigmatic energy-based, jukebox-wearing alien, to come dropping in.
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It's got my vote!
the opening night viewing has come and gone? I mean, even if the movie were to meet with expectations (unlikely), it must produce a large vacuum in one's life to have all that build up and then not continue one's assumed vocation anymore.
Not trolling, just curious.
I couldn't find anything about what country order they're releasing it in. Will the US get it first round this time or will we have to wait for it? What possible reason do they have at this point (considering its success stateside) for delaying?
Quite true. I have to wonder though whether there would be more public pushback if it was given a more apt name like "buying tax". After all it isn't the sale that's being taxed (it isn't the seller's state that's important), it's the buyer.
IMHO, if they want to continue calling it a sales tax, they should tax the seller and the price listed is the final price to the consumer. This would mean no more silliness about trying to figure out the over-the-top tax rates when one buys goods, no stupid use tax traps, and make interstate commerce a LOT easier (calculating tax often requires knowing the actual municipality based on zip code -- quite a pain the tuckus).
The psychic fiends union will hear of this, let me tell you!
/.).
Well, I'm not one of those new-fangled fortune tellers but I predict dozens of eggs screaming in terror and then suddenly silenced (by
BTW, how in the world is this NOT a "laugh, it's funny" article?
JMS (lord master of all things B5) wrote an interesting USENET article on how these folks actually get paid. Don't get me wrong, the RIAA/MPAA are still talking out of their arse in many ways, but it does give some perspective.
If you had bothered to actually read the quote, you may have noticed that it made no mention on the U.S. use of blackmail and extortion -- only that we don't take kindly to it when it is applied to us.
OTOH, I don't think the U.S. has used its position nearly as much as it could have if it chose to over time. There are plenty of times throughout recent U.S. history that the U.S. could have been much more pushy than it actually has been.
The overall point of the grandparent post is that getting nukes is NOT going to help the DPRK's position and ultimately will only server to hurt their people further. They're not likely to get what they want (power in the region) not are they likely to get aid as a result of these actions.
* Respectfully yanks the sh!te covered grandparent post back out of his behind and whacks the AC neatly, but firmly. over the head with it *
Bad AC, Bad! Next time at least post with your real account.
Thanks for helping me with the imagery tho.
Nope, not illegal. Monumentally stupid. This certainly will not get them any aid as the U.S. (generally) won't deal kindly with blackmail or extortion.
No, we're not God's army. However, neither are they and we are still the guy with the biggest stick on the playground. Although that may change someday, right now we have some leverage to dictate some terms as to how things are going to be run if our monetary resources are to be used by other countries for things like, say, Tsunami relief.
The people of the so-called Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea -- meaning those who do not weild military power -- are definitely starving and hardly menacing on their own. Those in power, however, are quite menacing to South Korea, Japan, China, Russia, etc. Many of those nations are our friends (or at least temporarily friendly to us), and deserve some assistance.
The people that are more likely to invade are actually China and Russia if the DPRK gets really out of hand. However, we may very well help those countries if need be. Bush did not specifically make any statement to the effect of destroying the countries, BTW, he was only referring to the regimes that have driven them into the ground.
The danger to the U.S. is in the sale of the arms to terrorists. There is already some evidence pointing to sales of the material to Libya and Pakistan (as well as apparently Iran). We are definitely vulnerable through a number of routes to all sorts of attack, either directly or through our interests abroad.
Besides that -- it only seems instant suicide until they actually try it. Suppose they did use one. What would happen? I'd bet very little for a long time. The political ramifications of the U.S. nuking them in retailiation would make it very unlikely.
I call BS on that. CNN would be all over how it was the U.S.'s fault that DPRK, directly or indirectly, attacked.
Perhaps. But that sort of defense comes with a price (need for vigilence, even more International irritation, more drain on their already thin economy). I doubt they're really ready to pay for it. More likely, they'll just get more and more desperate, and desperate people with big weapons are always a danger.
Keep in mind that we were not making any particular hostile overtures toward them until they decided to renig on the various treaties with us when we were still willing to deal with them one-on-one (no reason to continue that since it didn't help before). It was only after the nuclear programs got some traction (and we were attacked in an unrealted incident) that Bush made his axis of evil speech. This deterrance was concocted during a time when noone was really paying them any attention. DPRK's nuclearizing is more of a tantrum
Although I tend to agree (B5 best sci-fi ever), I see a lot of B5 season 1 in BSG. BSG right now, as B5 was in season 1, is a bit more episodic than the later seasons of B5. Character and background development is taking front-seat to arc development, although it is clear that the arc is quietly percolating away and will likely come to the foreground soon. Although the arc was always there, B5 had more episodic than arc episodes in season 1, a balance in season 2, more arc than episodic in season 3, and season 4 was almost all arc. I won't get into season 5 since it really was "empire building" (JMS's term).
Quite frankly, if allowed to, I can see BSG doing something similar (in depth of arc). It just takes some time to get all the balls in the air at once.
Someone has already proposed a length but detailed analysis on Babylon 5 vs BSG...
I think they're referring to the method of entry -- poorly configured mySQL instances (with open or common root passwords). Once in, the Windows level security takes over and the worm can act pretty freely it seems.
That argument sounds vaguely familiar.
Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that all of the message IDs in this thread start with 1138 (that magic number that the article claims Lucas sticks in all of his films)?
Anyone watch the Cartoon Network at all this last Thanksgiving holiday? They ran The Iron Giant and then The Prince of Egypt, two (admittedly children's) movies I have enjoyed. Now, I am in the camp that would prefer that the leave the credits alone. Hell, I'd love for them to take the stupid bugs off. But CN, after showing a commercial once every five bloomin' minutes during The Iron Giant decided to crunch even more content by running the introduction to The Prince of Egypt during the end credits of The Iron Giant.
Don't get me wrong, I love CN, especially Adult Swim, but this silliness needs to end. I'm paying for this stupid channel. Not only am I saddled with commercials (which I shouldn't really be on a cable channel), but they are optimizing their commercial time, not their programming time.
Needless to say, CN was not on my list of things to be Thankful for this year.
Obligatory blast from the (recentish) past.
Signed 16-bit short anyone?
I can understand using signed numbers here -- at least the error would be obvious -- assuming noone just absolute values away the sign thinking they're clever. But how memory-limited are these systems not to at least use 24-bit or better yet 32-bit ints here? Is it really that much of a space savings to warrant districts subdividing becase the companies can't afford a little more memory in these things?
Or, is there something else I'm missing here...
I can't believe noone here has asked "This year, why vote of a lesser evil?" yet!
I bought both editions of the first two and am planning to complete the extended set in December (already have the theatrical ROTK of course). Call me stupid if you must but I am willing to shell out the cash for one simple reason: I belive in sponsoring the things that I particularly like. Hollywood doesn't send me a ballot to let them know that I want more LOTR quality stuff, so I vote with my wallet. I don't buy many DVDs, but I felt this series was worthy of an exception. YMMV.
Oh, and BTW (from grandparent post):
My wife of five years and I are happily expecting our first child in January and we both have enjoyed the trilogy thoroughly. So, I guess that's just one more moronic theory out the window -- or else the universe is about the end -- I leave it to the reader to judge.
When I'm modding, I usually browse at -1. But even then, until I find a story I want to moderate (one I actually know something about), I tend to stay at level 3...
Okay, so I'm going OT on this but it has to be said. There really needs to be some way in /. to allow raising the view-priority of a parent post based on some selection in the child post. Take the parent post as an example. On my screen it looked like DAldredge (2353) was replying to spin2cool (651536). When clicking on spin2cool's home, I see a nice reasonable home page -- nothing controversial. In reality however, DAldredge is replying to the (hidden on my screen) ancestor suso (153703), whose home page seems to be advocating Communism as if it were a new idea.
/. would be for DAldredge to have a check box during a reply post to tell my viewing of the page to raise the parent up a bit so that I can see the thread correctly. This happens a lot when browsing at score 3 for me and constantly clicking on Parent to make sure I understood the context is getting annoying.
My wish list item for
Anyway, enough of my whining. I just had to get that off my chest.
Cool. Instead of Soilant Green, we'll have green(ie) soil.
Remember folks, green soil is people.
... because no matter what it will at most level two within a year...
Anyone know when this will get released via yum repositories or is there a repository that has more current stuff for Fedora?
of jawbone shoulder guy ending up in the next Dr. Evil henchman?
Where's my immortality then? I don't know about you, but I'm not going to be stuck at the bottom of the pit of Z'ha'dum for a couple million years waiting for some dude, being possessed into thinking he is the "One" by an enigmatic energy-based, jukebox-wearing alien, to come dropping in.
In short, nope.