Wow...ok, so it's not a unanimous decisions by all the courts of the land. Not surprising. You also qoute one imminent scholar who disagrees with the interpretation. But reading trhough the peice, it becomes obvious that he is arguing for a reinterpretation.../because in most cases, the courts (in a jurisprudencial and historical manner) have viewed the second ammendment to be interpreted as I stated and linked to/! You can attack the source (hey, as I said, I just googled), but you still haven't discredited the content. You've actually made my case for me:) Especially that last sentence of your second paragraph; that's exactly the point! Second ammendment doesn't automatically grant the right to bear arms, but puts it in the state's hands to grant (or not grant) that right.
And I resent being called troll boy. Especially by someone who presents his case with an opinion peice which contains information which proves himself wrong.
Chill out. Check the sites gives...I went for the WHO, which stated that there was a very low morltailty rate, secondary outbreaks have not happened (and due to increased awareness will probably not happen at all) and there are about 450 people affected in total.
True, here's another resistant bug, which is freaky in itself, but it's no super-ebola. Unless you french kiss your spouce who's just contracted it by sucking on an infected persons mucus, you'll be fine.
No, I'm not confused...second result of a quick google search gives a pretty close description of what the american courts think, and have thought, for at least a hundred years:
http://www.guncite.com/journals/senrpt/senrpt24. ht ml
Look for the second paragraph. And check out court records.
And as a side note, the militias were of no consequence; Americans got their independance only due to the fact that the French sent in troops. Many, many sources mention the fact that the armed militias did more harm than good. Read some memiors by the generals of the times.
As for your last point...well, I can see that that is valid. It just reminds me of the parallels with certain smoking laws in the US.
What, you want grenade launchers too? How about a nice cozy Abrahms tank? Or a SCUD launcher? Or why not a nuke? I mean, you have a right to bear arms (although several courts are getting rather fed up by the fact that the ignorant public thinbk that the second amendment grants them the right to bear arms...it doesn't, as the supreme court has had to explain in exasperation many times over: google for it), so why not have a nuke? Or some anthrax? I mean, your government has that, so why shouldn't you?
Oh, forgot to mention that...I access all my most frequently used programs by just one click. Much faster than your methopd. How? By using the desktop for what it's for: no, not a place for 'pretty desktop wallpaper' but for holding organised (by program type) shortcuts to those programms I use daily. And please don't say 'that clutters my desktop, I can't work that way', because you don't complain about your keyboard being cluttered and if you see your desktop that often you're not using your computer enough.
Yeah, but that entails having to start up the program itself when all I want to do is read the helpfile...either that or root around in the directory tree. Especially handy for those big ass productivity apps, like 3dsmax, solidworks, matlab etc which take a long time to load.
Plus, it's easier for you to delete those links (two clicks) than for me and the rest who like to have 'em handy to make 'em all manually.
You know, there are many times when I need the help file to a program without starting the damn thing. And that's an especially handy feature when it's a big ass programm like Maya, Solidworks, Photoshop, a compositing app or a heavy duty math program. It sucks if you want to get the helpfile and have to start the program to press the F fucking 1 key or root around the directory tree.
Not only that, but I get the same speed on my startmenu, because I do customise it. I don't like the Windows standard (internet apps are in comms, other programs in programs, games in games, etc. etc.) and I usually don't like the way developers set their programs up either (wtf is that program folder doing in a folder named for the company who made it? Useless, that...but easy to fix).
So I do it myself, like I want it. But I do appreciate it if I can just dragndrop those entries to their 'propper' place, instead of having to set up each and every one manually.
And what does the kidnapper do first thing? He tosses the tracer. Which nullifies any percieved benefit, and leaves only the disadvantage that your kid feels 'watched' at all times. That kind of parental control is way too tight, and causes scars.
For one, I'd think that good parenting should be done the old fashioned way, ie getting your kid to develop such a sence of moral obligation that they will let you know where they are going (and hopefully enough sense of life, adventure and self to lie to you because they're going to a perfectly safe party you wouldn't let them go to).
Second: "use it as a notifier if something went wrong"...huh? like the cellphone knows when stuff goes wrong and can act on it? That's a hell of a neural network you've stuffed in there. Not only that, but there's two other things which don't add up: the location tech is there anyway, thanks to the 911 legislation (no, not that one; if you call 911, 'they' have to be able to trace the call to a couple of meters), so you know where your kid is anyway. Putting a restricted track where your kids allowed to be makes you the childs big brother (1984 style): no more going off to the park/under the bridge whatever, because you've made that impossible (not only that, but wtf do you think it's gonna do to a kid psychologically when the kid knows his parents know where he is/at all times/ and can put out an 'allowable route' for him to follow like a labrat? How would you feel? Also, if the kid does get kidnapped, what do you think is the first thing that's gonna happen? The kidnapper dumps the tracer...duh.
So you get all the disadvantages, no advantages whatsoever. What do you choose now?
Or at least, to me it is. Reallife tech always follows fiction. Reason being that something must be thought of before it can be implemented. And where do we get our ideas from? Fiction. It must be dreamt before it can be built.
Look at this for an eerily on-the-mark description of the desktop computer: an article called "As we may think", by Vannever Bush in a 1945 piece in the ATLANTIC MONTHLY. Look to Jules Verne, Gibson. And you know what? Those aren't predictions. They're thoughts, which others have read, and because they read them those idea's have been implemented. Those books are the root cause for innovations to happen, not accurate predictions at all. Even now there's trekkies trying to figure out shields and beams and transporters, gibsonites who are trying to put together consensual hallucinations in the form of MMORPG's.
So not only would I say that fiction can be used to talk of real world change, I think it's the reason for real world change.
Me, even I'm doing my bit...damn, the whole reason for me to get into what I'm doing was 'cos science fiction made it look cool:) And I bet I'm not the only one.
So you have no secondary programs, internet links, help file links in the startmenu for your program? Now that is what I call sloppy, unhelpfull and just plain ignorant of user needs. I hope I never come across one of your programs.
So? It's still a point worth pointing out: if you only use linux, you can't play NWN. My original post only said that it would be cooler if you could play NWN on linux without having to use windows. I think that's a valid point, and far from a troll. The fact that I said you still need windows (thus having to pay the MS tax [that was not trash talk, just an easier and faster way of saying that etc etc etc]) was more +1 Informative, as it wasn't explicit in the blurb on/., and wasn't mentioned at the time of my posting it in any other posts.
Read my original post again: it was not a troll, didn't bash microsoft and just made an observation on what would be cooler for Bioware to have done. As for the fact that anyone interested in NWN on linux would already know all that...well, by that rationale, the/. story would be redundant too.
Yeah...I mean, imagine a GPS signal which is 4 times as accurate, and gives you an error margin to boot. And it's a system which doesn't have a built in inacuracy for the public, and won't be changed in accuracy whenever someone wants to have a war, thus making it safe for missioncritical applications (like airtravel, all year round surveying etc).
Nah, an obviously inferior system, made by people who are jealous of another counrty. It couldn't have anything to do with a part of the world wanting a better system soonest, while fostering a quite handy knowledge base.
RTFA. Sorry, but RTFABetter:). It states that this system is a precursor to Galileo, the worldwide system, but that this is in place above Sweden (and thus as you said available only in part of Europe).
But yeah, it is sweet...and that's 2 meters (according to the swedish text as oposed to 5 meters in the english text...strange, that)PLUS an estimate of error in the reading (which could be 0.001 mm or 1 meter:)
You know what? Read what I've written to the first two answers to my original post. Boils down to this: -need an already installed NWN to get the files to copy to your linux pc/partition -therefore, you need windows, otherwise you can't get those files; they can't be gotten directly from the install cd's (due to them being packed there). -therefore, MS tax. So to play on NWN on linux, you need a pc, linux, the NWN cd's, the linux client and windows. You have to pay for three of the four abovementioned articles. MS tax, Bioware tax and pc tax.
Not to be harsh, but I think the article states that you need an installed version of NWN (on windows, cos you can't install it otherwise) to get the required files for your linux client. You can't get them directly from the NWN cd's, as they're packed.
Therefore, you cannot play NWN on linux without a copy of windows...therefore MS tax. So it is an extra, true, but not like you state.
No, I'm not mad at all. I play NWN on win xp, and I'm happy on xp. What I'm saying here, and what the article says, is that you need the files from an installed version of NWN (on windows, duh) to play NWN on Linux...the client will not work without them. What I remarked on was that there is thus no way to play NWN without having a pc, running windows, with NWN installed. It would just be cooler to have an environment with only linux pc's, the NWN disks and an internet connection (to d/l the linux client) and be able to install and play NWN on linux.
Next time please take the time to read and understand my comment. Nowhere is there any irritation evident. I do use the phrase 'MS tax', but that is just a convenient way of saying what I've stated above: you still can't play NWN on linux whithout a windows pc with NWN installed.
Now this is exactly the featurte set I wanted, but what do those idiots do? They put PocketPC on it. Sigh...guess I'll have to wait another couple of months for this kind of thing running PalmOS. But by that time, I'll want one with OLED or E-Ink:)
Now why (yeah yeah, with Marathon being a notable exeption) isn't this implemented in pc games? Trust me, enough people have broadband to make it worthwhile, but it has to be out-of-the-box. Look at UT2k3; bombingrun is a gametype which needs voice. But because it's not ou-of-the-box, it's hardly used...which sucks. Or what about NWN? It would enrich the game, but it's not put in. It sucks. And yes, I am jealous of that aspect of xbox live. I wanna play Ghost Recon with voice;/
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Wow...ok, so it's not a unanimous decisions by all the courts of the land. Not surprising. :) Especially that last sentence of your second paragraph; that's exactly the point! Second ammendment doesn't automatically grant the right to bear arms, but puts it in the state's hands to grant (or not grant) that right.
You also qoute one imminent scholar who disagrees with the interpretation. But reading trhough the peice, it becomes obvious that he is arguing for a reinterpretation.../because in most cases, the courts (in a jurisprudencial and historical manner) have viewed the second ammendment to be interpreted as I stated and linked to/!
You can attack the source (hey, as I said, I just googled), but you still haven't discredited the content. You've actually made my case for me
And I resent being called troll boy. Especially by someone who presents his case with an opinion peice which contains information which proves himself wrong.
Man, go read the WHO or CDC page and take a chill pill.
Chill out. Check the sites gives...I went for the WHO, which stated that there was a very low morltailty rate, secondary outbreaks have not happened (and due to increased awareness will probably not happen at all) and there are about 450 people affected in total.
True, here's another resistant bug, which is freaky in itself, but it's no super-ebola. Unless you french kiss your spouce who's just contracted it by sucking on an infected persons mucus, you'll be fine.
No, I'm not confused...second result of a quick google search gives a pretty close description of what the american courts think, and have thought, for at least a hundred years:
. ht ml
http://www.guncite.com/journals/senrpt/senrpt24
Look for the second paragraph. And check out court records.
And as a side note, the militias were of no consequence; Americans got their independance only due to the fact that the French sent in troops. Many, many sources mention the fact that the armed militias did more harm than good. Read some memiors by the generals of the times.
As for your last point...well, I can see that that is valid. It just reminds me of the parallels with certain smoking laws in the US.
I think you're misinformed.
What, you want grenade launchers too? How about a nice cozy Abrahms tank? Or a SCUD launcher? Or why not a nuke? I mean, you have a right to bear arms (although several courts are getting rather fed up by the fact that the ignorant public thinbk that the second amendment grants them the right to bear arms...it doesn't, as the supreme court has had to explain in exasperation many times over: google for it), so why not have a nuke? Or some anthrax? I mean, your government has that, so why shouldn't you?
Oh, forgot to mention that...I access all my most frequently used programs by just one click. Much faster than your methopd. How? By using the desktop for what it's for: no, not a place for 'pretty desktop wallpaper' but for holding organised (by program type) shortcuts to those programms I use daily.
And please don't say 'that clutters my desktop, I can't work that way', because you don't complain about your keyboard being cluttered and if you see your desktop that often you're not using your computer enough.
Yeah, but that entails having to start up the program itself when all I want to do is read the helpfile...either that or root around in the directory tree. Especially handy for those big ass productivity apps, like 3dsmax, solidworks, matlab etc which take a long time to load.
Plus, it's easier for you to delete those links (two clicks) than for me and the rest who like to have 'em handy to make 'em all manually.
You know, there are many times when I need the help file to a program without starting the damn thing. And that's an especially handy feature when it's a big ass programm like Maya, Solidworks, Photoshop, a compositing app or a heavy duty math program. It sucks if you want to get the helpfile and have to start the program to press the F fucking 1 key or root around the directory tree.
Not only that, but I get the same speed on my startmenu, because I do customise it. I don't like the Windows standard (internet apps are in comms, other programs in programs, games in games, etc. etc.) and I usually don't like the way developers set their programs up either (wtf is that program folder doing in a folder named for the company who made it? Useless, that...but easy to fix).
So I do it myself, like I want it. But I do appreciate it if I can just dragndrop those entries to their 'propper' place, instead of having to set up each and every one manually.
Yup, still there in XP.
BTW, those guys above you do know you can, like, customize the startmenu?
I can see that conversation:
kid:"So I'm supposed to have that with me at all the time?"
you:"Yeah, son. That way I'll know where you are at all times."
kid:"All the time? Even when I'm in the toilet? Or at a party? Or when I'm talking to Terry?"
you:"No, I'll only use it when you're out of my sight."
kid:"So when I go to the arcade, you'll see it when I got to the park afterwards?"
you:"Sure, son."
kid (who actually sneaks into the planetarium after going to the arcade):"Well, then I don't wanna have it!"
you:"but it's for your own protection!"
kid:"I still don't wanna! You'll see whatever I do! Always! Even if I go to Stevies place [where he gets sex-ed from Stevies dad's pr0n collection]!"
you:"Well, I won't use it when you go to the toilet or go to Stevies place..."
kid:"But how will I know that?"
you:"Well, you'll just have to trust me on that"
Even a kid will get the irony of that last statement. They're often much smarter than what most people give them credit for.
And what does the kidnapper do first thing? He tosses the tracer. Which nullifies any percieved benefit, and leaves only the disadvantage that your kid feels 'watched' at all times. That kind of parental control is way too tight, and causes scars.
For one, I'd think that good parenting should be done the old fashioned way, ie getting your kid to develop such a sence of moral obligation that they will let you know where they are going (and hopefully enough sense of life, adventure and self to lie to you because they're going to a perfectly safe party you wouldn't let them go to).
/at all times/ and can put out an 'allowable route' for him to follow like a labrat? How would you feel?
Second: "use it as a notifier if something went wrong"...huh? like the cellphone knows when stuff goes wrong and can act on it? That's a hell of a neural network you've stuffed in there. Not only that, but there's two other things which don't add up: the location tech is there anyway, thanks to the 911 legislation (no, not that one; if you call 911, 'they' have to be able to trace the call to a couple of meters), so you know where your kid is anyway. Putting a restricted track where your kids allowed to be makes you the childs big brother (1984 style): no more going off to the park/under the bridge whatever, because you've made that impossible (not only that, but wtf do you think it's gonna do to a kid psychologically when the kid knows his parents know where he is
Also, if the kid does get kidnapped, what do you think is the first thing that's gonna happen? The kidnapper dumps the tracer...duh.
So you get all the disadvantages, no advantages whatsoever. What do you choose now?
Or at least, to me it is. Reallife tech always follows fiction. Reason being that something must be thought of before it can be implemented.
:) And I bet I'm not the only one.
And where do we get our ideas from? Fiction. It must be dreamt before it can be built.
Look at this for an eerily on-the-mark description of the desktop computer: an article called "As we may think", by Vannever Bush in a 1945 piece in the ATLANTIC MONTHLY. Look to Jules Verne, Gibson.
And you know what? Those aren't predictions. They're thoughts, which others have read, and because they read them those idea's have been implemented. Those books are the root cause for innovations to happen, not accurate predictions at all. Even now there's trekkies trying to figure out shields and beams and transporters, gibsonites who are trying to put together consensual hallucinations in the form of MMORPG's.
So not only would I say that fiction can be used to talk of real world change, I think it's the reason for real world change.
Me, even I'm doing my bit...damn, the whole reason for me to get into what I'm doing was 'cos science fiction made it look cool
So you have no secondary programs, internet links, help file links in the startmenu for your program? Now that is what I call sloppy, unhelpfull and just plain ignorant of user needs. I hope I never come across one of your programs.
YASA (Yet Another Shakespeare adaptation)?
So? It's still a point worth pointing out: if you only use linux, you can't play NWN. /., and wasn't mentioned at the time of my posting it in any other posts.
/. story would be redundant too.
/I/ just feed a troll?
My original post only said that it would be cooler if you could play NWN on linux without having to use windows. I think that's a valid point, and far from a troll.
The fact that I said you still need windows (thus having to pay the MS tax [that was not trash talk, just an easier and faster way of saying that etc etc etc]) was more +1 Informative, as it wasn't explicit in the blurb on
Read my original post again: it was not a troll, didn't bash microsoft and just made an observation on what would be cooler for Bioware to have done. As for the fact that anyone interested in NWN on linux would already know all that...well, by that rationale, the
Now did
Yeah...I mean, imagine a GPS signal which is 4 times as accurate, and gives you an error margin to boot. And it's a system which doesn't have a built in inacuracy for the public, and won't be changed in accuracy whenever someone wants to have a war, thus making it safe for missioncritical applications (like airtravel, all year round surveying etc).
Nah, an obviously inferior system, made by people who are jealous of another counrty. It couldn't have anything to do with a part of the world wanting a better system soonest, while fostering a quite handy knowledge base.
I bet you lost that long argument, didn't you?
In which case, any other measures you've taken aren't going to help you either.
RTFA. Sorry, but RTFABetter :). It states that this system is a precursor to Galileo, the worldwide system, but that this is in place above Sweden (and thus as you said available only in part of Europe).
:)
But yeah, it is sweet...and that's 2 meters (according to the swedish text as oposed to 5 meters in the english text...strange, that)PLUS an estimate of error in the reading (which could be 0.001 mm or 1 meter
You know what? Read what I've written to the first two answers to my original post. Boils down to this:
-need an already installed NWN to get the files to copy to your linux pc/partition
-therefore, you need windows, otherwise you can't get those files; they can't be gotten directly from the install cd's (due to them being packed there).
-therefore, MS tax.
So to play on NWN on linux, you need a pc, linux, the NWN cd's, the linux client and windows. You have to pay for three of the four abovementioned articles. MS tax, Bioware tax and pc tax.
Not to be harsh, but I think the article states that you need an installed version of NWN (on windows, cos you can't install it otherwise) to get the required files for your linux client. You can't get them directly from the NWN cd's, as they're packed.
Therefore, you cannot play NWN on linux without a copy of windows...therefore MS tax. So it is an extra, true, but not like you state.
No, I'm not mad at all. I play NWN on win xp, and I'm happy on xp. What I'm saying here, and what the article says, is that you need the files from an installed version of NWN (on windows, duh) to play NWN on Linux...the client will not work without them.
What I remarked on was that there is thus no way to play NWN without having a pc, running windows, with NWN installed. It would just be cooler to have an environment with only linux pc's, the NWN disks and an internet connection (to d/l the linux client) and be able to install and play NWN on linux.
Next time please take the time to read and understand my comment. Nowhere is there any irritation evident. I do use the phrase 'MS tax', but that is just a convenient way of saying what I've stated above: you still can't play NWN on linux whithout a windows pc with NWN installed.
Happy now?
Now this is exactly the featurte set I wanted, but what do those idiots do? They put PocketPC on it. Sigh...guess I'll have to wait another couple of months for this kind of thing running PalmOS. :)
But by that time, I'll want one with OLED or E-Ink
Now why (yeah yeah, with Marathon being a notable exeption) isn't this implemented in pc games? Trust me, enough people have broadband to make it worthwhile, but it has to be out-of-the-box. ;/
Look at UT2k3; bombingrun is a gametype which needs voice. But because it's not ou-of-the-box, it's hardly used...which sucks.
Or what about NWN? It would enrich the game, but it's not put in. It sucks. And yes, I am jealous of that aspect of xbox live. I wanna play Ghost Recon with voice
Or would this be so much more interesting if it read: "windows NWN install disks still required".
Not to troll, and kudos to the dev for doing this, but I mean this still relies on someone having paid the MS tax to play the game.