Oh, I know... almost any standards organization is better than defacto Microsoft "standards." But still, I would hope that an organization claiming to set web policy for the entire world wouldn't also be chosing standards based on its own ability to profit from them. That's really no better than MS.
how does purchasing apple hardware make you desire sexual contact with your own gender?
did arthur anderson abandon apple?
apple's back end is a "pimped-out" unix. so what's your point? they've built a unix-based gui os? if OSX is a better product than windows, who cares if apple "wrote their own OS?" or whatever.
some of your points are valid, but you have a funny way of saying things.
I am by no means defending the nazi or fundamentalist ideologies. My point about Poland, was that in the beginning, the Nazis were acting within the bounds of historical precedent. Al-Queida aren't fighting for freedom in the American sense, but rather the freedom to organize their society the way they see fit, without intrusion from other cultures.
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Well... I'm talking about asymetrical warfare, i.e. small bands of armed rebels/freedom fighters/terrorists against a larger, established power. Think the IRA, PLO, Al-Quaeda, heck even the Boston Tea Party.
But in a way, yes, the Nazi's were fighting for freedom. Hitler worked the population into a fervor by appealing to germanic values and traditions, claiming that their historical rights had been imposed upon. Germany had a somewhat legitimate claim to Poland. Sure the invasion of France and the events of and following krystalnacht were obviously about totalitarian dominance, but by that point the ball had already been rolling for quite some time.
Now I am fully of the happily coexist school of free vs. commercial software, but it strikes me as a little fishy that the organization responsible for setting the standards that everyone supposedly has to follow on the web will also stand to make a profit off of those standards. Doesn't exactly make for unbiased decision making.
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An interesting feature of the America's Army FPS game is that *both* sides play American troops.
The missions are set up so that you're either attacking or defending a base, and your team is always the Americans, and the other team always looks like terrorists. This creates an interesting unstated message to the game: American troops are exactly the same and have the same objectives as terrorists. I understand why the army doesn't want to encourage people roll-playing the axis of evil, but I'm not sure if this is the subtext they want to create either.
Of course it is a realistic portrayal of the way asymetrical warfare works. Everyone thinks they are fighting to defend freedom.
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Newsflash: US Army releases free game to train and promote the new cockatrice-corpse wielding corpse.
"This is all part of a massive restructuring and revisioning of the US armed forces" said general Kaen to an attentive audience of soldiers, sergeants, and lieutenants.
"Congress has just allocated enough zorkmids to ensure that within 2 years our entire armed forces can be outfitted with blessed grey dragon scale mail and +3 silver sabers. But technological challenges remain. Izchak Inc. and other contractors are still looking for a way to bless bags of holding on an industrial scale."
Military watchers are certain that this new fighting force will be more than ready to defeat all of the forces of evil, including Osama, Sadam, Rodney, and Demogorgan, among many others.
the last two Star Wars movies were an excercise in patience.
my favorite bad element had to be Natalie Portman in the last movie. She's a very smart, and very talented young actor. She was simply too smart for her lines, every single thing she said sounded like she was actually mocking the scriptwriter. Of all my childhood icons, why couldn't George Lucas have died in a fiery explosion sometime around 1985?
It's no coincedince that ESB, the best in the series, has almost no trace of George's influence. While the original trilogy were goofy kid's action entertainment, they TOOK THEMSELVES SERIOUSLY. King Man-Perm needs to let go.
If your band can only fill a 200 person bar on a 3 band ticket, then you're not going to be profitable no matter what. There have been some great bands in that position, but never any profitable ones.
However, if you're able to draw 1000 fans or so in an urban setting, if you aren't making enough money to at least pay for equipment, hotels, and studio time, then someone is giving you the shaft.
as someone on VH1s "1 hit wonders" said "first thing you gotta do is get a good accountant and a good lawyer, and then get another good lawyer to look after those two guys"
These arguments are valid... up to a point. Yes these "artists" are making a few million a year, which might be more than is fair.
But, the middlemen of the labels are making tens and even hundreds of millions a year.
Ideally, that kind of excess would be passed on to consumer savings, but that won't happen. I'd still rather see Brittany get the money (she does work hard at what she does, which is really more vaudeville than art) than some contract lawyer.
It's like the old professional sports arguments, the player's salaries seem crazy, until you look at the owners/managers.
Audiogalaxy was the ONLY place for small bands. You could look up a lesser-known like the Microphones or the Young Marble Giants and not only find every single release, but also a host of B-Sides, basement tapes, and live cuts. By the time AG shut down, I had over 5 hours of Neutral Milk Hotel material, and NMH, mind you, is a band with only 2 45 minute albums to their name.
I can safely say that Augiogalaxy made me go out and purchase CDs, and more importantly made me go out and see live shows (where artists make a much higher return) I miss that little service allready.
It's funny. The files the RIAA really wants to stop, Brittany, Nickelback, etc. are available on any one of the hundreds of P2P providers out there, they aren't stopping a single pirate by shutting down AG, but the lesser knowns and out of prints now are homeless.
You know they're heating UGA with chicken bi-products too.
The science of agricultural waste may be an open target for easy jokes, but give these guys credit for finding alternative uses for a major and often overlooked pollutant.
I don't know how widely kermit is used, but I go to Columbia, and if any of the project members are reading this:
Quit trying to redo the interface! The old one worked fine and looked good in black and white. The new one is too small to read and has no reason for existing.
But other than that, it's the best print management software I've come across, so good job on the free advertising and all that.
Wood ash and smoke are different kinds of pollution, and typically stay airborn for a far shorter period of time than the chemicals that make up "smog"
But that's not the point.
He was talking about oil consumption, not air pollution, and the fires in the US West aren't consuming (much) oil.
Yes, while Malthus and Ehrlich severely underestemated our ability to find new resources, I still think that we're going to run out of material before we run out of people. The world simply cannot support 12 billion people (a common estimate for the population when growth finally levels off) comfortably.
I doubt we'll completely run out of food, and I doubt we'll start colonizing other planets, but this is going to be an ugly, greedy, overcrowded century.
I too played Diplomacy with my highschool history teacher. Sadly I didn't do so well, and neither did my teacher.
Everyone was afraid of my teacher because he is a very smart man and military historian. Everyone was afraid of me because I was the only one who had played Diplomacy before. Nobody would form an alliance between either of us, and as England and Turkey we couldn't do much to help each other out. Diplomacy is a funny game, if you get known as being too good of a player (or even suspected as such) your chances decrease dramatically.
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Oh, I know... almost any standards organization is better than defacto Microsoft "standards." But still, I would hope that an organization claiming to set web policy for the entire world wouldn't also be chosing standards based on its own ability to profit from them. That's really no better than MS.
Sounds cool guys, how about posting some sound files?
You just have to love stoner geeks.
how does purchasing apple hardware make you desire sexual contact with your own gender?
did arthur anderson abandon apple?
apple's back end is a "pimped-out" unix. so what's your point? they've built a unix-based gui os? if OSX is a better product than windows, who cares if apple "wrote their own OS?" or whatever.
some of your points are valid, but you have a funny way of saying things.
I am by no means defending the nazi or fundamentalist ideologies. My point about Poland, was that in the beginning, the Nazis were acting within the bounds of historical precedent. Al-Queida aren't fighting for freedom in the American sense, but rather the freedom to organize their society the way they see fit, without intrusion from other cultures.
Well... I'm talking about asymetrical warfare, i.e. small bands of armed rebels/freedom fighters/terrorists against a larger, established power. Think the IRA, PLO, Al-Quaeda, heck even the Boston Tea Party.
But in a way, yes, the Nazi's were fighting for freedom. Hitler worked the population into a fervor by appealing to germanic values and traditions, claiming that their historical rights had been imposed upon. Germany had a somewhat legitimate claim to Poland. Sure the invasion of France and the events of and following krystalnacht were obviously about totalitarian dominance, but by that point the ball had already been rolling for quite some time.
Now I am fully of the happily coexist school of free vs. commercial software, but it strikes me as a little fishy that the organization responsible for setting the standards that everyone supposedly has to follow on the web will also stand to make a profit off of those standards. Doesn't exactly make for unbiased decision making.
An interesting feature of the America's Army FPS game is that *both* sides play American troops.
The missions are set up so that you're either attacking or defending a base, and your team is always the Americans, and the other team always looks like terrorists. This creates an interesting unstated message to the game: American troops are exactly the same and have the same objectives as terrorists. I understand why the army doesn't want to encourage people roll-playing the axis of evil, but I'm not sure if this is the subtext they want to create either.
Of course it is a realistic portrayal of the way asymetrical warfare works. Everyone thinks they are fighting to defend freedom.
Newsflash: US Army releases free game to train and promote the new cockatrice-corpse wielding corpse.
"This is all part of a massive restructuring and revisioning of the US armed forces" said general Kaen to an attentive audience of soldiers, sergeants, and lieutenants.
"Congress has just allocated enough zorkmids to ensure that within 2 years our entire armed forces can be outfitted with blessed grey dragon scale mail and +3 silver sabers. But technological challenges remain. Izchak Inc. and other contractors are still looking for a way to bless bags of holding on an industrial scale."
Military watchers are certain that this new fighting force will be more than ready to defeat all of the forces of evil, including Osama, Sadam, Rodney, and Demogorgan, among many others.
"May the blessings of the RNG be with us all"
Because they show off CGI better. In space, you might as well use models and stop motion.
Remember, Lucas *hates people* and is trying to replace them with computers. Land battles let him have lots of fake people.
Watching the new Star Wars movies is a little too much like watching a videogame cut sequence.
the last two Star Wars movies were an excercise in patience.
my favorite bad element had to be Natalie Portman in the last movie. She's a very smart, and very talented young actor. She was simply too smart for her lines, every single thing she said sounded like she was actually mocking the scriptwriter. Of all my childhood icons, why couldn't George Lucas have died in a fiery explosion sometime around 1985?
It's no coincedince that ESB, the best in the series, has almost no trace of George's influence. While the original trilogy were goofy kid's action entertainment, they TOOK THEMSELVES SERIOUSLY. King Man-Perm needs to let go.
Finally some players I can frag!
all kidding aside, it seems like there are other games more suited to alternative display technologies.
If your band can only fill a 200 person bar on a 3 band ticket, then you're not going to be profitable no matter what. There have been some great bands in that position, but never any profitable ones.
However, if you're able to draw 1000 fans or so in an urban setting, if you aren't making enough money to at least pay for equipment, hotels, and studio time, then someone is giving you the shaft.
as someone on VH1s "1 hit wonders" said "first thing you gotta do is get a good accountant and a good lawyer, and then get another good lawyer to look after those two guys"
These arguments are valid... up to a point. Yes these "artists" are making a few million a year, which might be more than is fair.
But, the middlemen of the labels are making tens and even hundreds of millions a year.
Ideally, that kind of excess would be passed on to consumer savings, but that won't happen. I'd still rather see Brittany get the money (she does work hard at what she does, which is really more vaudeville than art) than some contract lawyer.
It's like the old professional sports arguments, the player's salaries seem crazy, until you look at the owners/managers.
Audiogalaxy was the ONLY place for small bands. You could look up a lesser-known like the Microphones or the Young Marble Giants and not only find every single release, but also a host of B-Sides, basement tapes, and live cuts. By the time AG shut down, I had over 5 hours of Neutral Milk Hotel material, and NMH, mind you, is a band with only 2 45 minute albums to their name.
I can safely say that Augiogalaxy made me go out and purchase CDs, and more importantly made me go out and see live shows (where artists make a much higher return) I miss that little service allready.
It's funny. The files the RIAA really wants to stop, Brittany, Nickelback, etc. are available on any one of the hundreds of P2P providers out there, they aren't stopping a single pirate by shutting down AG, but the lesser knowns and out of prints now are homeless.
Burn the CDs, see the show and buy a T-Shirt, the artist will get a much greater percentage of your money.
Record Labels and distributors get something like 90% of CD revenue.
I was kidding, I usually give something@localhost.localdomain
I also wonder what the data suggesting I am a 95 year old female government employee making less than $25,000 a year goes to.
A versitile little bird. Mean and stinky though.
You know they're heating UGA with chicken bi-products too.
The science of agricultural waste may be an open target for easy jokes, but give these guys credit for finding alternative uses for a major and often overlooked pollutant.
I usually tell all those sites to send to joe@aol.com
I wonder who that poor sucker is.
I don't know how widely kermit is used, but I go to Columbia, and if any of the project members are reading this:
Quit trying to redo the interface! The old one worked fine and looked good in black and white. The new one is too small to read and has no reason for existing.
But other than that, it's the best print management software I've come across, so good job on the free advertising and all that.
Good point except
Algae are dying faster than the trees.
Surface pollution in coastal waters is rapidly killing off perhaps the most important component of the global ecosystem.
Wood ash and smoke are different kinds of pollution, and typically stay airborn for a far shorter period of time than the chemicals that make up "smog"
But that's not the point.
He was talking about oil consumption, not air pollution, and the fires in the US West aren't consuming (much) oil.
Yes, while Malthus and Ehrlich severely underestemated our ability to find new resources, I still think that we're going to run out of material before we run out of people. The world simply cannot support 12 billion people (a common estimate for the population when growth finally levels off) comfortably.
I doubt we'll completely run out of food, and I doubt we'll start colonizing other planets, but this is going to be an ugly, greedy, overcrowded century.
I too played Diplomacy with my highschool history teacher. Sadly I didn't do so well, and neither did my teacher.
Everyone was afraid of my teacher because he is a very smart man and military historian. Everyone was afraid of me because I was the only one who had played Diplomacy before. Nobody would form an alliance between either of us, and as England and Turkey we couldn't do much to help each other out. Diplomacy is a funny game, if you get known as being too good of a player (or even suspected as such) your chances decrease dramatically.
not quite as funny as this
*ducks and runs*