On top of that, using firefox "screws up" my wireless link at home - it times out, / and kills the link.
Does it screw up the link with that one computer or with all your computers? I have a laptop at home that occasionally loses its connection; I've blamed it on interference from neighbors' wireless signal, because changing the broadcast signal on the router tends to fix it. How have you managed to isolate the problem to the browser?
Banning the sale of of all video games to minors would help parents in that regard, and may just force the issue with lazy parents, making them go to the store to buy a game for their kid.
You can't force a DNA donor to be a parent by passing laws.
I call bullshit. There is no federal sales tax in the US--the sales taxes go to the state, county and (maybe) city. It's your income tax that "finances state terrorism," as you put it.
Has EE changed their format recently? When I've searched in the past, the replies were about a page below the question--I've never had a problem finding an answer. And I've never bothered joining.
Can you point to a law that's been passed in the last six years and say, "This is a good law"? I think finding a "good" law that's been recently passed would be difficult at best, but you're more than welcome to prove me wrong.
Chances are, like the F-22A, the ABL isn't made to take on a terrorist group or even Iran. It's made for the threats in the Far East--China and Korea. Of course the Pentagon won't come out and say that, because the idea that we're building hardware to fight a war against a country that isn't currently hostile isn't politically popular.
People are smart enough to know the difference between actual episodes of the Farscape TV show, and unofficial material written by fans that happens to use the same characters, don't you think?
People could pretty easily tell the difference between actual episodes of Farscape (or actual Farscape books) and fanfiction. But would it be so easy to tell the difference if the fanfiction books were right next to the canon works on bookstore shelves?
I'm no lawyer, but I'm willing to bet Blizzard is working under the derivative works clause of the Copyright Act. In essence, "derivative works" means that I own the rights not just to what I have created but also to what I have not yet created.
For example: If I write an science fiction novel with original characters, settings, etc., I own not only the story I have written but also the characters and the settings I have written about. I can create further works based on those characters and settings, which promotes the original purpose of copyright law (at least as I understand it).
If, on the other hand, I want to write a novel set in the Farscape universe, I can't just go out and write the story. For one thing, someone else owns that universe--and aside from the capital they stand to lose if I write and publish something set in their universe, they also stand to lose the intellectual integrity. What would Farscape look like if any schmo could publish material about it?
That's what I think Blizzard is protecting here--not just its right to make money off its product, but the ability to make sure people who participate in WOW are getting information that's at least somewhat accurate.
This is probably a more reasonable question to apply to games, especially online games. With digital distribution of games like through Steam, the need for physical media becomes obsolete.
... Until the newest McAfee virus signature file wipes out your game executables, or the DRM on one of your downloaded games corrupts your system to the point of having to reinstall the OS.
It's not kooky right wing christians that are the biggest threat to our freedom of speech. It's fundamentalist Islam that seeks to regulate western speech with threats of violence from the middle east.
Actually, it's not about fundamentalist Christians or fundamentalist Muslims. It's about fundamentalists, period. It's about the very mindset that allows someone to believe a person or group with different beliefs has no right to live.
But Unipages are superior to PDF in their ability to hold functionality (Javascript), Flash animations and practically anything normally possible in a web page.
You may as well say Unipages are superior to PDF because you can embed viruses within the document.
Given this Administration's behavior and appointees of late... Well, any theory that President Bush really wants the US to lead in science and global competitiveness is just that: a theory.
Actually, it would be a hypothesis. Theories require a burden of truth to be already established.
I think the most interesting thing about FalconSAT-2 is that it's a cadet project. In other words, a bunch of kids in their late teens or early 20s put this thing together.
The Air Force Academy's newspaper will probably have some information about it when it launches. They had a short article in Page 4 of their Dec. 2 issue after one of the delays.
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So they've figured out how to bend light for optical camo. Neeto. Now how in the hell does this have anything to do with radar?
Umm, radar is light
.On top of that, using firefox "screws up" my wireless link at home - it times out, / and kills the link.
Does it screw up the link with that one computer or with all your computers? I have a laptop at home that occasionally loses its connection; I've blamed it on interference from neighbors' wireless signal, because changing the broadcast signal on the router tends to fix it. How have you managed to isolate the problem to the browser?
Banning the sale of of all video games to minors would help parents in that regard, and may just force the issue with lazy parents, making them go to the store to buy a game for their kid.
You can't force a DNA donor to be a parent by passing laws.
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AUTHENTIC
with a 63.4% chance of being an authentic paper.
Quite frankly it taints the credibility of the American legislative system.
You're presuming the American legislative system still has credibility. I don't think I could say it has, at least not since 2001.
This is a low-brow, ignorant argument made by an ignoramus for an audience of compliant sheep.
Which is exactly why it will work.
I call bullshit. There is no federal sales tax in the US--the sales taxes go to the state, county and (maybe) city. It's your income tax that "finances state terrorism," as you put it.
Insightful? Yes, but probably not the way the moderator thought. :)
You're making that up. There's no way the real U.S. Patent Office would reject a silly patent with tons of prior art behind it!
Has EE changed their format recently? When I've searched in the past, the replies were about a page below the question--I've never had a problem finding an answer. And I've never bothered joining.
Can you point to a law that's been passed in the last six years and say, "This is a good law"? I think finding a "good" law that's been recently passed would be difficult at best, but you're more than welcome to prove me wrong.
Chances are, like the F-22A, the ABL isn't made to take on a terrorist group or even Iran. It's made for the threats in the Far East--China and Korea. Of course the Pentagon won't come out and say that, because the idea that we're building hardware to fight a war against a country that isn't currently hostile isn't politically popular.
People are smart enough to know the difference between actual episodes of the Farscape TV show, and unofficial material written by fans that happens to use the same characters, don't you think?
People could pretty easily tell the difference between actual episodes of Farscape (or actual Farscape books) and fanfiction. But would it be so easy to tell the difference if the fanfiction books were right next to the canon works on bookstore shelves?
I'm no lawyer, but I'm willing to bet Blizzard is working under the derivative works clause of the Copyright Act. In essence, "derivative works" means that I own the rights not just to what I have created but also to what I have not yet created.
For example: If I write an science fiction novel with original characters, settings, etc., I own not only the story I have written but also the characters and the settings I have written about. I can create further works based on those characters and settings, which promotes the original purpose of copyright law (at least as I understand it).
If, on the other hand, I want to write a novel set in the Farscape universe, I can't just go out and write the story. For one thing, someone else owns that universe--and aside from the capital they stand to lose if I write and publish something set in their universe, they also stand to lose the intellectual integrity. What would Farscape look like if any schmo could publish material about it?
That's what I think Blizzard is protecting here--not just its right to make money off its product, but the ability to make sure people who participate in WOW are getting information that's at least somewhat accurate.
This is probably a more reasonable question to apply to games, especially online games. With digital distribution of games like through Steam, the need for physical media becomes obsolete.
... Until the newest McAfee virus signature file wipes out your game executables, or the DRM on one of your downloaded games corrupts your system to the point of having to reinstall the OS.
Sorry, but I'll take disc in hand anyday.
Marketing and selling these games to kids is wrong, and needs to stop.
Maybe the parents should stop buying the shit for their kids in the first place.
They figured out the real problem isn't pirates... It's ninjas!
Those darn ninjas ... they're wacky!
He's crazy if thinks big corporations would even think twice of doing something over the dead body of one of their workers.
Corporations might think twice, but governments wouldn't.
Some people RELY on their cell phones' ability to receive calls...
What did you rely on before cell phones were an option?
It's not kooky right wing christians that are the biggest threat to our freedom of speech. It's fundamentalist Islam that seeks to regulate western speech with threats of violence from the middle east.
Actually, it's not about fundamentalist Christians or fundamentalist Muslims. It's about fundamentalists, period. It's about the very mindset that allows someone to believe a person or group with different beliefs has no right to live.
But Unipages are superior to PDF in their ability to hold functionality (Javascript), Flash animations and practically anything normally possible in a web page.
You may as well say Unipages are superior to PDF because you can embed viruses within the document.
Given this Administration's behavior and appointees of late... Well, any theory that President Bush really wants the US to lead in science and global competitiveness is just that: a theory.
Actually, it would be a hypothesis. Theories require a burden of truth to be already established.
It's not the word "theory" you're looking for.
It's not the word "theory" we're looking for.
No one forced Microsoft to integrate the browser into the OS. That was their mistake.
I think the most interesting thing about FalconSAT-2 is that it's a cadet project. In other words, a bunch of kids in their late teens or early 20s put this thing together.
The Air Force Academy's newspaper will probably have some information about it when it launches. They had a short article in Page 4 of their Dec. 2 issue after one of the delays.
If they did, do you think they'd be working in Congress?