First of all wikipedia is not something i care to correct. That page is wrong and if you care so much then you can feel free. In the page about the "first world" it says: "The two "worlds" were not numbered." Meaning the first and second worlds were not originally given an alignment to communist or capitalist.
Later is says "Eventually, it became common practice to refer to nations within the Western European and United States' sphere of influence (e.g., the NATO countries) as the First World." What they left out is that the USA was only the "first world" to the USA. In the USSR and other aligned nations they considered themselves the "first world".
Yes i do have primary sources for this and no im not going to cite them. This is slashdot, and like wikipedia, is a haven for idiots and is not worth trying to make a real documented arguement on. You might not believe me which is probably a good idea since most of what you read on slashdot is wrong.
There is no "first world". The "third world" is countries that are unaligned in the struggle between the USA and the USSR. It now generally means poor countries in the world but neither the USA or USSR were a "first" and "second" worlds.
I have ran into many chinese gold farmers who say "i no farm, i jsut chinese, like to play game, you take me to group ok?!" You let them in despite your better judgement. Once the final boss is down they steal everyting and say "im sorry i not good english i not know rules kthxbye".
If you think this is stereotypical or racist then you haven't played WoW. YES chinese farmers DO speak like that if they speak at all. Some are fluent in english but many speak in a perfect stereotype of how a chinese native speaker forms their english sentances.
It might be racist to screen out chinese players but let me tell you that it DOES save you from being ninja looted randomly. Im not so worried about how this is a bad thing becuase they CAN play on official chinese servers if they just want to play a game.
You are 180 degrees wrong with the direction a law liek this would go.
You already CAN patent yourself. You can patent you own genes. The problem is yours have already been patended but that doesn't mean you didn't have the CHANCE to patent yourself, but you were just a little too late.
Does anyone know the specific heat rating of these oils vs. standard aluminum/copper heatsinks. I know neither compares to the specific heat of pure water. Also i heard there was some liquid that is used in supercomputers that has better head conduction proporties than water. I think it was somewhere around 133% or so of the specific heat of water.
The reason fake electronics are bad is becuase they are not tracable back to their rightful manufacterer. If there is a low quality batch of, say USB cards, that lose data randomly, why should the non-fake manufacterer have their name associated with them.
A lot of people here are having the standard knee-jerk reaction of saying only corporate profits benefit by cutting out fakes but thats just not the case. If a compan builds a brand name not with marketing but build a brand name with actually releasing a quality product then why should the be associated with the quality of fake items. Do you want to read a review of a top of the line quality electronics manufacterer and go out and buy the reviewed item only to find you got bought a low quality item?
Nobody ever died when someone with the intention to pirate music for personal gain used p2p. Also there is no consititutional right to download music. Your analogy is good but not perfect.
I personally would prefer to compare copyright laws with taxes. They are painful to anyone who is not directly benefited but are still not ALWAYS bad.
The parent is correct. They used the 14th amendment which was designed to give liberties to all people after the civil war. The intention was for black people to use this amendment to fight racist state and local laws. The corporations asserted that they too were people and could not legally be denied the same rights as every human being.
This transformed the idea of a corporation. They were not longer created for a certain business purpose. This is when corporations becuase their own self serving machine.
The key difference however between a person and a corporation is that if a corporation does something illegal you cant throw it in jail. Technically The leaders of the corporation are liable if the corporation does something illegal but they protect themselves with layer upon layer of plausible denial. Everyone points the finger in every direction and you can never tell who is at fault.
This is why corporations are so good for doing shady things. If a person did what a corporation did then they would be thrown in jail immediatly where as a corporation can really only be fined. So a corporation stole $10,000,000? Ok well lets fine them a good chunk of that, lets fine then $3,000,000 and that will really show them!
Have you noticed the striking similarities between a Wooden bridge and a Concrete bridge? I mean they both kinda look the same but are a little different. I am also sure that the parts are as easily swapped back and forth as cells of two different species' brains.
There are plenty of other uses that were listed in the article if you had RTFA. One possible use is to prevent piracy of movies by blocking digital cameras in theaters.
Imagine if the rules of war said it was ok to use maiming and blinding weapons. The air would be filled with gas designed to ruins a persons breathing. The sky would be full of lasers to blind people. Biological weapon containing bombs would be dropped on military bases non-stop... AND all the same shooting and bombing would go on. The difference is that having more maiming weapons wont lead to less bullets and bombs. It just adds another edge to combat to make it deadlier for both sides without actually making any side better off against their opponent. This is why most countries follow the Geneva convention. The winners dont want to all be one legged and blind when they declare "victory".
Its the best damn wine for gaming around. I have used cadega since it was called "winex" back in the day so i can explain some of their thinking along the road. I haven't used it much recetly so i dont know how much has changed. They forked wine to ad better directx support. This was basically to get directx games to run under wine. Some of the original games to get working were warcraft 3 and half life/counter strike (the original). They also have added some nice closed source code that deals with the copy protection code on games. This is why back in day day anyway there were two distributions. One was open source and free as in beer. This version didn;t work on copy protected games. The other version was downloadable ONLY as a binary but it was sinply the source pre-compiled with some secret copy protection source they added in. They worked out a deal so that they can legally bypass the copy protection as long as they did not release the source for that code.
Anyway i dont know how much has changed since i haven't been gaming on linux recently.
Are you serious? Do you think that the government takes losing money mroe lightly than any business?
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I dont know what he meant by "Bloodelves were an incredibly polished race" when the race has yet to be released and is mostly Night Elves with a different set of textures, in fact some textures are the same with a different color pallet. I play on horde side and am really skeptical that when this race comes out it will be how it was displayed at blizzcon. So let me get this straight the horde get an AoE stun and AoE silence racials?
There will be far too many alliance (the majority of the players of WoW" crying about balance if most of the things shown at blizzcon come out.
the United States created a neat and shiny toy unnoticed by the world until it "became" the internet,... hardly, learn some history and you will know the internet did not apear out of nowhere. The internet also was not developed unnoticed OR unhelped by all kinds of international entities.
About a quarter of the people i know lost internet
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· Score: 2, Funny
Today i was playing world of warcraft and on our raid about 25% of my guild mates lost their internet on and off. Other than that the lag was higher than normal but i wondered what the hell was going on. Anyway we still pwn some dragons in BWL:)
Clearly youre mother and mine need a new phone with a camera and the ability to play full motion video and run a moblog and play 3d games and display in VGA and all the other crap that phones do that 99% of the poeple that own a cellphone dont need.
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First of all wikipedia is not something i care to correct. That page is wrong and if you care so much then you can feel free. In the page about the "first world" it says: "The two "worlds" were not numbered." Meaning the first and second worlds were not originally given an alignment to communist or capitalist.
Later is says "Eventually, it became common practice to refer to nations within the Western European and United States' sphere of influence (e.g., the NATO countries) as the First World." What they left out is that the USA was only the "first world" to the USA. In the USSR and other aligned nations they considered themselves the "first world".
Yes i do have primary sources for this and no im not going to cite them. This is slashdot, and like wikipedia, is a haven for idiots and is not worth trying to make a real documented arguement on. You might not believe me which is probably a good idea since most of what you read on slashdot is wrong.
no, you can always buy juice or milk instead...
Patents last 20 years if filed after June 8, 1995. 17 years if filed before.
There is no "first world". The "third world" is countries that are unaligned in the struggle between the USA and the USSR. It now generally means poor countries in the world but neither the USA or USSR were a "first" and "second" worlds.
Just offtopic nitpicking...
I have ran into many chinese gold farmers who say "i no farm, i jsut chinese, like to play game, you take me to group ok?!" You let them in despite your better judgement. Once the final boss is down they steal everyting and say "im sorry i not good english i not know rules kthxbye".
If you think this is stereotypical or racist then you haven't played WoW. YES chinese farmers DO speak like that if they speak at all. Some are fluent in english but many speak in a perfect stereotype of how a chinese native speaker forms their english sentances.
It might be racist to screen out chinese players but let me tell you that it DOES save you from being ninja looted randomly. Im not so worried about how this is a bad thing becuase they CAN play on official chinese servers if they just want to play a game.
Everyone may be turning into a geek but on slashdot we are still all just dorks.
Slashdot editors appear to only spend 50 nanoseconds checking an article before posting.
You are 180 degrees wrong with the direction a law liek this would go.
You already CAN patent yourself. You can patent you own genes. The problem is yours have already been patended but that doesn't mean you didn't have the CHANCE to patent yourself, but you were just a little too late.
If you dont believe me read this.
So yes you can patent yourself but this does not give you power over government/corporate interests. It gives them power over you.
is it possible for him to be sure?
An (american) footbal IS round on all 3 directions. Its ROUND, but not CIRCULAR.
Does anyone know the specific heat rating of these oils vs. standard aluminum/copper heatsinks. I know neither compares to the specific heat of pure water. Also i heard there was some liquid that is used in supercomputers that has better head conduction proporties than water. I think it was somewhere around 133% or so of the specific heat of water.
The reason fake electronics are bad is becuase they are not tracable back to their rightful manufacterer. If there is a low quality batch of, say USB cards, that lose data randomly, why should the non-fake manufacterer have their name associated with them.
A lot of people here are having the standard knee-jerk reaction of saying only corporate profits benefit by cutting out fakes but thats just not the case. If a compan builds a brand name not with marketing but build a brand name with actually releasing a quality product then why should the be associated with the quality of fake items. Do you want to read a review of a top of the line quality electronics manufacterer and go out and buy the reviewed item only to find you got bought a low quality item?
Nobody ever died when someone with the intention to pirate music for personal gain used p2p. Also there is no consititutional right to download music. Your analogy is good but not perfect.
I personally would prefer to compare copyright laws with taxes. They are painful to anyone who is not directly benefited but are still not ALWAYS bad.
The parent is correct. They used the 14th amendment which was designed to give liberties to all people after the civil war. The intention was for black people to use this amendment to fight racist state and local laws. The corporations asserted that they too were people and could not legally be denied the same rights as every human being.
This transformed the idea of a corporation. They were not longer created for a certain business purpose. This is when corporations becuase their own self serving machine.
The key difference however between a person and a corporation is that if a corporation does something illegal you cant throw it in jail. Technically The leaders of the corporation are liable if the corporation does something illegal but they protect themselves with layer upon layer of plausible denial. Everyone points the finger in every direction and you can never tell who is at fault.
This is why corporations are so good for doing shady things. If a person did what a corporation did then they would be thrown in jail immediatly where as a corporation can really only be fined. So a corporation stole $10,000,000? Ok well lets fine them a good chunk of that, lets fine then $3,000,000 and that will really show them!
Have you noticed the striking similarities between a Wooden bridge and a Concrete bridge? I mean they both kinda look the same but are a little different. I am also sure that the parts are as easily swapped back and forth as cells of two different species' brains.
There are plenty of other uses that were listed in the article if you had RTFA. One possible use is to prevent piracy of movies by blocking digital cameras in theaters.
He had sex with a virgin... everyone knows that cures you of AIDS!
Imagine if the rules of war said it was ok to use maiming and blinding weapons. The air would be filled with gas designed to ruins a persons breathing. The sky would be full of lasers to blind people. Biological weapon containing bombs would be dropped on military bases non-stop... AND all the same shooting and bombing would go on. The difference is that having more maiming weapons wont lead to less bullets and bombs. It just adds another edge to combat to make it deadlier for both sides without actually making any side better off against their opponent. This is why most countries follow the Geneva convention. The winners dont want to all be one legged and blind when they declare "victory".
Its the best damn wine for gaming around. I have used cadega since it was called "winex" back in the day so i can explain some of their thinking along the road. I haven't used it much recetly so i dont know how much has changed. They forked wine to ad better directx support. This was basically to get directx games to run under wine. Some of the original games to get working were warcraft 3 and half life/counter strike (the original). They also have added some nice closed source code that deals with the copy protection code on games. This is why back in day day anyway there were two distributions. One was open source and free as in beer. This version didn;t work on copy protected games. The other version was downloadable ONLY as a binary but it was sinply the source pre-compiled with some secret copy protection source they added in. They worked out a deal so that they can legally bypass the copy protection as long as they did not release the source for that code.
Anyway i dont know how much has changed since i haven't been gaming on linux recently.
Are you serious? Do you think that the government takes losing money mroe lightly than any business?
I dont know what he meant by "Bloodelves were an incredibly polished race" when the race has yet to be released and is mostly Night Elves with a different set of textures, in fact some textures are the same with a different color pallet. I play on horde side and am really skeptical that when this race comes out it will be how it was displayed at blizzcon. So let me get this straight the horde get an AoE stun and AoE silence racials?
There will be far too many alliance (the majority of the players of WoW" crying about balance if most of the things shown at blizzcon come out.
Power Corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Way to quote someone else and not give them credit. You also made it appear as if you originally came up with the quote.
the United States created a neat and shiny toy unnoticed by the world until it "became" the internet, ... hardly, learn some history and you will know the internet did not apear out of nowhere. The internet also was not developed unnoticed OR unhelped by all kinds of international entities.
Today i was playing world of warcraft and on our raid about 25% of my guild mates lost their internet on and off. Other than that the lag was higher than normal but i wondered what the hell was going on. Anyway we still pwn some dragons in BWL :)
Clearly youre mother and mine need a new phone with a camera and the ability to play full motion video and run a moblog and play 3d games and display in VGA and all the other crap that phones do that 99% of the poeple that own a cellphone dont need.