drugs (the war on drugs can be won, all pot smokers are criminals, drug abuse is a disease (for crying out loud)), etc., etc.),
Are you saying that drug abuse is not a disease? If you are then i think most scientists around the world would disagree with you. Correct me if i am wrong but i interpreted your words as saying that you think pot smokers are not criminals (technically they are since they are commiting a crime) but you disagree with all reasonable peer reviewed science about addiction and claim its not a disease?
Maybe its too late at night for me to read so much into your words but please clarify.
I actually watched a senate debate on c-span about this. Many of the senators who spoke onthe topic were less scared of the security matter and more worried as to why a multi-billion dollar contract could not go to an american company.
The other main security was valid however. If the deal went through as it was planned originally it would have given low level managers in an arab country the ability to grant worker's passports to people so they can come to america to oversee the crane operation. The fear was that a terrorist could threaten a low level manager into giving an operative those passports. This is a legitimate security fear.
Let me guess, your one of the people who thinks if we privatized schools we would all be a happier society? If only poor people had to pay for their own school they would be better educated right?
about 1/10 replies to my comment is about this, its simply the anti page widening troll code. Any string of charecters gets a space added every so often. This is why if you link a URL its almost always broken.
I think nearly everyone who reads into this case will agree with you. Remember when a judge makes a ruling they do not say what is "right" and what is "wrong". In this case the judge simply said that the law did nto cover email address' and if anyone wanted it to they would need to get the legislature to pass a law about it.
I side with the city here but the judge is not out of line making the ruling that was handed down. This is just more evidence of how behind the times our laws are and this is one possible way for spammers and scammers to exploit that.
What the question asker needs is a standard education in programming. I think all of the problems he is having are solved with standard education. Self-taught only goes so far and i suspect that he is staying self-taught as a matter of pride of for bragging rights. I know many programmers who are like this and it is silly and counter productive.
Your ability in an MMORPG is 100% based on time spent in the game too. In Animal crossing is there a way to "mess up". That is to make a mistake that leads you to do something over again therefore wasting your time when you mess up?
This isn't entirely true. There are many "mini win conditions". Clearing all the way through a dungeon, or getting the perfect set of gear are current wint conditions. Just becuase you win though doesn't mean you need to stop playing the game. There are many non-MMO games with replayability factors that keep you coming back even after you have killed the hardest boss in the game. Back to MMO's however i believe you need to enjoy the game when you play it, not just after you beat it.
I think the issue here is that in China they have a system in place that supports censorship. In the USA we have a system that should be against censorship but has been hijacked. Even if we did censor as bad as china (which we dont even get close to) I would still be happier here becuase I know that the government is doing something against their own rules when they censor us.
Most people who drive through the DC area are not from the DC area. The whole point of the law is to decieve people. If everyone became adjusted to the new yellow timers then there would be no extra ticket revenue. The entire law is based around having a DIFFERENT yellow timer than surounding areas.
This problem is not about "wising up". It is praying on people who are A) new to the area B) commuters on their way to work after having just woken up and indeed C) people who run red lights. Gee it sounds to me liek just about every driver on the road in the area is the target of this law, that makes the law not OK with me.
This law is a textbook definition of entrapment, the law is trying to create crime where there was no crime before simply to make more money. Also you need to be realistic and admit that some peoplem would jsut never wise up to this scheme and more people would run red lights therefor increasing the danger of driving on those roads.
Ive read that these parasited are more common in the UK or perhaps we only know of more cases there becuase people are looking harder. Im not exactly an expert on the topic but i know this has been "news" for years now.
I have a unique perspective becuase i work in Redmond, WA testing the xbox 360 for a living. I have played just about every game on the market in HD and non-HD. Let me tell you that you are missing a LOT by not seeing it in HD. Many games such as Project Gotham Racing 3 is very difficult to play ona normal tv screen. The dark races are hard to see if the next turn is a left or a right. This system is made much worse when you must realize that not everyone has their optimal brightness/contrast/color ratios set. Many people turn up the brightness and contrast too high on their tv.
Games like DOA 4 as you mentioned are not as effected. You miss some of the finer tones on the skin btu the gameplay is alrgely uneffected. The game is brightly lit and there are not as many small details as in a dark racing game placed in a city.
Its just a piec eof paper that says 1) that its a search warrant, 2) details the items or locations to be searched (unlisted locations or items can not be searched), and 3) signed by a judge. They dont all look the same but as long as it has that stuff its a legal warrant. The things you can do when served with one would be to follow the searchers around the location and make sure they only search what is listed (you are not always under arrest when served with a search warrant).
Make 100% sure that the warrant is signed, its perfectly legal for a cop to tell you that they have a warrand when they have an unsigned warrant. When presented with an unsigned warrant most people will then give permission unknowingly to the police to search.
Again make absolutly sure that you dont give permission for a search. If you later knock down the search warrant in court but you also gave permission to search when presented with the warrant you are basically screwed.
A few other things police can do to search a place is to show up dressed like a pizza man and beinvited into the house. Upon entering the house if you have something not 100% legal they can arrest you for that and then they have the ability to search your house now that you are under arrest. This sadly does happen to many adults who use marijuana recreationally. This problem is usually made worse by the fact that a "victim" or the police might be stoned themselves and unknowingly give consent for a search.
I doubt XP has improved the situation all that much.
It has. Go troll somewhere else. Thats like me saying "well I tried running ventrilo under slackware 7.1 and a 4 year old copy of wine and it didn't work then so i assume it wont work today."
You have a good point but please dont think that the "terrorists" wear "dark clothing and hide in the woods. Those kinds of silly assumptions about how people dress or act is what leads us into this mess in the first place.
Windows XP (and 2k) are better for gaming becuase of all the third part addon's and apps that only work on windows. Technically yes you can can run a game in linux but you cant run many of other programs such as Ventrilo. Ventrilo is a MUST becuase I am in a WoW raiding guild. Right now there is no Ventrilo client for linux.
Before you go and say "well run Ventrilo under wine!" let me tell you that i have tried and it did not work. I dont know why it did not work and i dont care. Even if it was a relativly easy tweak I am not willing to do it. Its not that I can't get it to work, but why not use windows which "just works".
Again before you guys go off about how Windows doesn't "just work" let me tell you it DOES for me on my gaming machine. My spare time these days is spent raiding instead of tweaking my computer and i prefer it that way.
What i meant by saying you are above a bomb is that gasoline is a liquid. The gas tank can be punctured and if that happens the liquid will escape. Gas will then be all over the ground and nearly everything in the car is above it.
Every single 40 man instance is originally released for hardcore players but they all get nerfed eventually so that more casual players can play them. If they originally released new instances for casual players then the hardcore players would never go into them, and that would be a waste of an instance to only let some people play it.
Molten Core is now doable in sections of 1-2 hours at a time with 30-40 players with only gear from Dire Maul or the first few (easy) bosses of ZG. People need to stop demanding that blizzard release content for casual players, eventually all content will available to casual players.
Airplanes are 100x safer than a car. You are riding a container of explosive fuel and remember you are sitting on top of the explosives. Many fire fighers can tell you that many of the burns from car crashes come from the fact that heat rises and so when something burns it burns whats on top of it. So essentially in a car you are quite literally "riding a bomb" just like in DR. Strangelove. This is especially true when you consider some people's enthusiasm to ride their big SUV's.
Also a car is nto constantly inspected for safety and controled by a person with years of training and scrict guidlines about how alert/sober they need to be.
If this bullshit is "safety" from "the terrorists" I don't want to be safe anymore.
I think that this was the same idea that the founding father's had. They believed that only god could decide how long they lived, they could however decide how free they lived. If living in freedom means you are more likely to be killed then bring it on, im ready to die free. America is great not becuase we are an economic powerhouse although thats what most people associate with the "American way of life". Giving up your freedom will never make you safer, thats a debated fact and even if it was not true, i would choose liberty over safety.
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drugs (the war on drugs can be won, all pot smokers are criminals, drug abuse is a disease (for crying out loud)), etc., etc.),
Are you saying that drug abuse is not a disease? If you are then i think most scientists around the world would disagree with you. Correct me if i am wrong but i interpreted your words as saying that you think pot smokers are not criminals (technically they are since they are commiting a crime) but you disagree with all reasonable peer reviewed science about addiction and claim its not a disease?
Maybe its too late at night for me to read so much into your words but please clarify.
I actually watched a senate debate on c-span about this. Many of the senators who spoke onthe topic were less scared of the security matter and more worried as to why a multi-billion dollar contract could not go to an american company.
The other main security was valid however. If the deal went through as it was planned originally it would have given low level managers in an arab country the ability to grant worker's passports to people so they can come to america to oversee the crane operation. The fear was that a terrorist could threaten a low level manager into giving an operative those passports. This is a legitimate security fear.
Let me guess, your one of the people who thinks if we privatized schools we would all be a happier society? If only poor people had to pay for their own school they would be better educated right?
Hell, i would give up MY rights for cheap electronics? wouldn't you?
about 1/10 replies to my comment is about this, its simply the anti page widening troll code. Any string of charecters gets a space added every so often. This is why if you link a URL its almost always broken.
I think nearly everyone who reads into this case will agree with you. Remember when a judge makes a ruling they do not say what is "right" and what is "wrong". In this case the judge simply said that the law did nto cover email address' and if anyone wanted it to they would need to get the legislature to pass a law about it.
I side with the city here but the judge is not out of line making the ruling that was handed down. This is just more evidence of how behind the times our laws are and this is one possible way for spammers and scammers to exploit that.
What the question asker needs is a standard education in programming. I think all of the problems he is having are solved with standard education. Self-taught only goes so far and i suspect that he is staying self-taught as a matter of pride of for bragging rights. I know many programmers who are like this and it is silly and counter productive.
Since when do virgins not want to have sex? Your analogy makes no sense.
Your ability in an MMORPG is 100% based on time spent in the game too. In Animal crossing is there a way to "mess up". That is to make a mistake that leads you to do something over again therefore wasting your time when you mess up?
You dont need a license to carry a gun in public, you only need alicense for certain kinds of guns.
This isn't entirely true. There are many "mini win conditions". Clearing all the way through a dungeon, or getting the perfect set of gear are current wint conditions. Just becuase you win though doesn't mean you need to stop playing the game. There are many non-MMO games with replayability factors that keep you coming back even after you have killed the hardest boss in the game. Back to MMO's however i believe you need to enjoy the game when you play it, not just after you beat it.
I think the issue here is that in China they have a system in place that supports censorship. In the USA we have a system that should be against censorship but has been hijacked. Even if we did censor as bad as china (which we dont even get close to) I would still be happier here becuase I know that the government is doing something against their own rules when they censor us.
Most people who drive through the DC area are not from the DC area. The whole point of the law is to decieve people. If everyone became adjusted to the new yellow timers then there would be no extra ticket revenue. The entire law is based around having a DIFFERENT yellow timer than surounding areas.
This problem is not about "wising up". It is praying on people who are A) new to the area B) commuters on their way to work after having just woken up and indeed C) people who run red lights. Gee it sounds to me liek just about every driver on the road in the area is the target of this law, that makes the law not OK with me.
This law is a textbook definition of entrapment, the law is trying to create crime where there was no crime before simply to make more money. Also you need to be realistic and admit that some peoplem would jsut never wise up to this scheme and more people would run red lights therefor increasing the danger of driving on those roads.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/thisweek/story/0,12 977,1048642,00.html
Dated Thursday September 25, 2003
Ive read that these parasited are more common in the UK or perhaps we only know of more cases there becuase people are looking harder. Im not exactly an expert on the topic but i know this has been "news" for years now.
I have a unique perspective becuase i work in Redmond, WA testing the xbox 360 for a living. I have played just about every game on the market in HD and non-HD. Let me tell you that you are missing a LOT by not seeing it in HD. Many games such as Project Gotham Racing 3 is very difficult to play ona normal tv screen. The dark races are hard to see if the next turn is a left or a right. This system is made much worse when you must realize that not everyone has their optimal brightness/contrast/color ratios set. Many people turn up the brightness and contrast too high on their tv.
Games like DOA 4 as you mentioned are not as effected. You miss some of the finer tones on the skin btu the gameplay is alrgely uneffected. The game is brightly lit and there are not as many small details as in a dark racing game placed in a city.
If you ask any gay person they will tell you that being gay is who they are, not just "what they do".
Its just a piec eof paper that says 1) that its a search warrant, 2) details the items or locations to be searched (unlisted locations or items can not be searched), and 3) signed by a judge. They dont all look the same but as long as it has that stuff its a legal warrant. The things you can do when served with one would be to follow the searchers around the location and make sure they only search what is listed (you are not always under arrest when served with a search warrant).
Make 100% sure that the warrant is signed, its perfectly legal for a cop to tell you that they have a warrand when they have an unsigned warrant. When presented with an unsigned warrant most people will then give permission unknowingly to the police to search.
Again make absolutly sure that you dont give permission for a search. If you later knock down the search warrant in court but you also gave permission to search when presented with the warrant you are basically screwed.
A few other things police can do to search a place is to show up dressed like a pizza man and beinvited into the house. Upon entering the house if you have something not 100% legal they can arrest you for that and then they have the ability to search your house now that you are under arrest. This sadly does happen to many adults who use marijuana recreationally. This problem is usually made worse by the fact that a "victim" or the police might be stoned themselves and unknowingly give consent for a search.
I doubt XP has improved the situation all that much.
It has. Go troll somewhere else. Thats like me saying "well I tried running ventrilo under slackware 7.1 and a 4 year old copy of wine and it didn't work then so i assume it wont work today."
You have a good point but please dont think that the "terrorists" wear "dark clothing and hide in the woods. Those kinds of silly assumptions about how people dress or act is what leads us into this mess in the first place.
Windows XP (and 2k) are better for gaming becuase of all the third part addon's and apps that only work on windows. Technically yes you can can run a game in linux but you cant run many of other programs such as Ventrilo. Ventrilo is a MUST becuase I am in a WoW raiding guild. Right now there is no Ventrilo client for linux.
Before you go and say "well run Ventrilo under wine!" let me tell you that i have tried and it did not work. I dont know why it did not work and i dont care. Even if it was a relativly easy tweak I am not willing to do it. Its not that I can't get it to work, but why not use windows which "just works".
Again before you guys go off about how Windows doesn't "just work" let me tell you it DOES for me on my gaming machine. My spare time these days is spent raiding instead of tweaking my computer and i prefer it that way.
its funny, laugh
What i meant by saying you are above a bomb is that gasoline is a liquid. The gas tank can be punctured and if that happens the liquid will escape. Gas will then be all over the ground and nearly everything in the car is above it.
Every single 40 man instance is originally released for hardcore players but they all get nerfed eventually so that more casual players can play them. If they originally released new instances for casual players then the hardcore players would never go into them, and that would be a waste of an instance to only let some people play it.
Molten Core is now doable in sections of 1-2 hours at a time with 30-40 players with only gear from Dire Maul or the first few (easy) bosses of ZG. People need to stop demanding that blizzard release content for casual players, eventually all content will available to casual players.
Airplanes are 100x safer than a car. You are riding a container of explosive fuel and remember you are sitting on top of the explosives. Many fire fighers can tell you that many of the burns from car crashes come from the fact that heat rises and so when something burns it burns whats on top of it. So essentially in a car you are quite literally "riding a bomb" just like in DR. Strangelove. This is especially true when you consider some people's enthusiasm to ride their big SUV's.
Also a car is nto constantly inspected for safety and controled by a person with years of training and scrict guidlines about how alert/sober they need to be.
If this bullshit is "safety" from "the terrorists" I don't want to be safe anymore.
I think that this was the same idea that the founding father's had. They believed that only god could decide how long they lived, they could however decide how free they lived. If living in freedom means you are more likely to be killed then bring it on, im ready to die free. America is great not becuase we are an economic powerhouse although thats what most people associate with the "American way of life". Giving up your freedom will never make you safer, thats a debated fact and even if it was not true, i would choose liberty over safety.