Bush has strong-armed numerous bills through the congress. Think of the new prescription drug entitlement, which many members of his own party were against. His support of the assault ban is lipspeak, all while he nods and winks to his supporters in the NRA.
If he truly had the courage of his own convictions, as everyone seems to think he does, he would openly support letting the ban expire. I'm not saying he's any less than the typical politician in this respect, but the fact that everyone's bought into the fantasy that the President is a plain-spoken man who never lies says more about his ability to muster good PR than his actual affinity for the truth.
OK, I'm taking off my karma bonus for this b/c of the potential flamebait, but isn't talking about the highest-quality WMA recordings available just a little like raving about the most delicious shit sandwich you ever had?:)
I like how you use the term "borrow" for copying. It's not illegal to truly borrow a CD; it's quite illegal to borrow it and copy it while it's in your possession. It's also illegal to copy it and put it up on the internet for millions to get for free. Copying CDs and distributing mp3s on the net don't constitute "borrowing". Moron...
Two notes, AC:
1) I don't get and then keep music from p2p. Last week I did download a few Franz Ferdinand tracks, however, and upon finding them to my taste I went to bleep.com to purchase some copies that would get music to the band.
2) Copying a CD is just not the same as stealing a car. If I have to really explain why that isn't so . . . well, you'd be a moron;)
This is blatant flamebait, but the man has a point. Why are we so willing to compare borrowing a cd from a friend to something like car theft? It's not even remotely the same thing, and the fact that people seem to swallow the RIAA propoganda so easily disturbs me. For my part, I've cut back on the RIAA machine and have started buying most of my music from cdbaby.com (yes, I'm too lazy to link, it's just a copy/paste, damnitt!).
Actually, you're correct, but only in most instances. The problems is that effect can also be a verb:
effect Function: transitive verb 1 : to cause to come into being 2 a : to bring about often by surmounting obstacles : ACCOMPLISH b : to put into operation (source: m-w.com)
Affect can be a noun as well, though it's rarely used outside of the field of psychology. It means "the conscious subjective aspect of an emotion considered apart from bodily changes" (again, from m-w.com).
Why are homosexual people (who, incidentally, cannot have children) so worried about what other people's children learn?
Maybe so that the next generation doesn't think it's necessary or proper to disciminate against homosexuals?
If you humanize gays (as I'm assuming the 'Heather' book does) and think of them as real people it's harder to discriminate against them. And before you say the gays don't have anything to worry about, a guy who went to the same high school I did was recently jumped, and they did a real number on him. He wasn't robbed, and the slurs they were shouting gave a pretty clear indication as to why they were beating him up. (Yea, he's a flamer, and a fairly annoying human being, but these guys had never met him before, so they weren't exactly beating him up for his horrible personality.)
Society is still not friendly to homosexuals. Anyone who thinks otherwise obviously doesn't have any gay acquaintances.
Incidentally, contrary to your statement, many homosexuals have children. Lesbians can be artificially inseminated, and many gay men have children from previous marriages. Whether it's right or wrong for gays to be raising children, I don't know; I suppose we'll have to wait and see how this first generation of children raised by openly gay parents turns out.
Thank you! I went over to bleep and saw Franz Ferdinand's newest on their front page. Only $10, and I'd been meaning to pick it up anyway, so why not? I'm listening right now, and I'm quite impressed with the sound quality of their files; it sounds as good as my own rips, and this is from a guy who rips all his own stuff with LAME and the R3Mix preset.
I don't have social anxiety disorder, so I can't speak to that, but I do have a mild stutter, a remnant of a very pronounced (get it? funny!) stutter I had as a child. The stutter comes and goes now, and most people don't even know I have it. One situation that almost always brings it out, though, is speaking on the phone, especially with folks I don't know.
Don't know why it happens, it just happens. You have no idea how frustrating it is to know exactly what you want to say but not being able to spit it out. In college, I'd always try to weasel out of being the guy who'd phone the pizza place. Now that I'm living on my own, though, I have to do it on my own. Oh, I've learned to talk through my stutter, and I'll get the order done, but I always get the feeling that the person on the other end thinks he's just spoken to an unfortunately retarded individual. When the delivery person comes and I can speak to him face to face, I'm fine, but phoning the place is something that definitely makes me anxious.
Pizza Hut and Domino's both offer online delivery, supposedly, but here where I live (Southeastern Virginia) none of their stores are equipped for it. Papa Johns does have a setup in place, though, and I tried it for the first time about a month ago. It was great, no having to repeat my order if the phone connection is bad, no worrying about stuttering--it was completely painless.
Anyway, to stay on topic, ordering online is a boon, and I wish more pizza places did it.
The password isn't necessarily in the text of the email. In fact, if the password _was_ in the text of the email then there really wasn't much of a point in using a password-protected archive at all. One could just as easily mail somebody the attachment, call them up on the phone, and say, "Hey, Bob, the password is 'password' on that zip I'm sending your way."
Also, I work for one of the AV companies and I foresee that if we were to implement something like this, then eventually some obnoxious black hat would have an encrypted zip file attached to an email with 100 MB (or some ridiculous amount) of mail text. A deluge of these and, guess what, instant DOS attack!
Yes, we could automatically stop trying to open the zip after a certain amount of tries. That's just one more test case I'd have to go through, though;)
Hey, checked out your resume for grins. On your last bulletpoint, "experienced" jumped out at me for being out of sync with the "experience" that you use two points up. I'd try to find some way to use the same conjugation of the word to make the bulletpoints more parallel.
Best of luck with the job search. It took me a good five months out of school to get my first real job (graduated 2001).
You obviously haven't used an emachines product lately. They've been under new management for awhile now, and the last few models of their laptops have been reviewed as good machines from most of the usual suspects. Check out epinions, for one.
I just bought the M6807 about a month back, and I was very impressed with the raw speed and quality of the display for the price.
They've completely fixed up their support, too. I called once about a minor issue (turned out to be a weird power management setting) and the hold time was about 5 seconds--I was extremely impressed. I heard they just got bought by Gateway, though, so who knows how long the good times will last:(
Point taken. I've visited NoVA a few times, though, while my little sister went to GMU, and I have to say I wasn't terribly overwhelmed. The nightlife was cool, I'll give you that, but I wouldn't say it was markedly better than the Southside's (Norfolk, VA Beach, etc). I don't know, could be that's just because I don't know NoVA as well as I know hampton roads.
I live in NN right now, and while I can appreciate why somebody would want to leave the place, why NoVA? It's like Hampton Roads. But with really, really horrible traffic;)
I am willing to sacrifice things like welfare, social security . . .
It's not exactly sacrifice on your part if you aren't currently using either of those two programs (which I assume you aren't, since you're willing to see them cut).
I don't think game prices have necessarily hit the ceiling, at least with regards to consoles. Think back to the heyday of the SNES. I remember paying something like $65 or $70 for SFII. FFIII was a pretty pricey game, too, if memory serves, but it sold a lot of copies. And if you put that in today's dollars, they were even more expensive.
No, consumers have proven that they'll pay a premium--the caveat is that if you charge more, then it'll have to be an amazing game to sell well. I'm sure if SNES's The Rocketeer had been $70, nobody would have bought it.
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Bush has strong-armed numerous bills through the congress. Think of the new prescription drug entitlement, which many members of his own party were against. His support of the assault ban is lipspeak, all while he nods and winks to his supporters in the NRA. If he truly had the courage of his own convictions, as everyone seems to think he does, he would openly support letting the ban expire. I'm not saying he's any less than the typical politician in this respect, but the fact that everyone's bought into the fantasy that the President is a plain-spoken man who never lies says more about his ability to muster good PR than his actual affinity for the truth.
OK, I'm taking off my karma bonus for this b/c of the potential flamebait, but isn't talking about the highest-quality WMA recordings available just a little like raving about the most delicious shit sandwich you ever had? :)
*sigh*
MONEY to the band. Maybe I am a moron . . .
I like how you use the term "borrow" for copying. It's not illegal to truly borrow a CD; it's quite illegal to borrow it and copy it while it's in your possession. It's also illegal to copy it and put it up on the internet for millions to get for free. Copying CDs and distributing mp3s on the net don't constitute "borrowing". Moron...
;)
Two notes, AC:
1) I don't get and then keep music from p2p. Last week I did download a few Franz Ferdinand tracks, however, and upon finding them to my taste I went to bleep.com to purchase some copies that would get music to the band.
2) Copying a CD is just not the same as stealing a car. If I have to really explain why that isn't so . . . well, you'd be a moron
Cheers.
This is blatant flamebait, but the man has a point. Why are we so willing to compare borrowing a cd from a friend to something like car theft? It's not even remotely the same thing, and the fact that people seem to swallow the RIAA propoganda so easily disturbs me. For my part, I've cut back on the RIAA machine and have started buying most of my music from cdbaby.com (yes, I'm too lazy to link, it's just a copy/paste, damnitt!).
Actually, you're correct, but only in most instances. The problems is that effect can also be a verb:
effect
Function: transitive verb
1 : to cause to come into being
2 a : to bring about often by surmounting obstacles : ACCOMPLISH b : to put into operation
(source: m-w.com)
Affect can be a noun as well, though it's rarely used outside of the field of psychology. It means "the conscious subjective aspect of an emotion considered apart from bodily changes" (again, from m-w.com).
Why are homosexual people (who, incidentally, cannot have children) so worried about what other people's children learn?
Maybe so that the next generation doesn't think it's necessary or proper to disciminate against homosexuals? If you humanize gays (as I'm assuming the 'Heather' book does) and think of them as real people it's harder to discriminate against them. And before you say the gays don't have anything to worry about, a guy who went to the same high school I did was recently jumped, and they did a real number on him. He wasn't robbed, and the slurs they were shouting gave a pretty clear indication as to why they were beating him up. (Yea, he's a flamer, and a fairly annoying human being, but these guys had never met him before, so they weren't exactly beating him up for his horrible personality.)
Society is still not friendly to homosexuals. Anyone who thinks otherwise obviously doesn't have any gay acquaintances. Incidentally, contrary to your statement, many homosexuals have children. Lesbians can be artificially inseminated, and many gay men have children from previous marriages. Whether it's right or wrong for gays to be raising children, I don't know; I suppose we'll have to wait and see how this first generation of children raised by openly gay parents turns out.
Thank you! I went over to bleep and saw Franz Ferdinand's newest on their front page. Only $10, and I'd been meaning to pick it up anyway, so why not? I'm listening right now, and I'm quite impressed with the sound quality of their files; it sounds as good as my own rips, and this is from a guy who rips all his own stuff with LAME and the R3Mix preset.
And the best part? The RIAA gets nothing!
*supervillainesque laughter ensues*
Don't know why it happens, it just happens. You have no idea how frustrating it is to know exactly what you want to say but not being able to spit it out. In college, I'd always try to weasel out of being the guy who'd phone the pizza place. Now that I'm living on my own, though, I have to do it on my own. Oh, I've learned to talk through my stutter, and I'll get the order done, but I always get the feeling that the person on the other end thinks he's just spoken to an unfortunately retarded individual. When the delivery person comes and I can speak to him face to face, I'm fine, but phoning the place is something that definitely makes me anxious.
Pizza Hut and Domino's both offer online delivery, supposedly, but here where I live (Southeastern Virginia) none of their stores are equipped for it. Papa Johns does have a setup in place, though, and I tried it for the first time about a month ago. It was great, no having to repeat my order if the phone connection is bad, no worrying about stuttering--it was completely painless. Anyway, to stay on topic, ordering online is a boon, and I wish more pizza places did it.
Well, jeez, if an omniscent being can't get out of taxes, I guess the rest of us schmoes don't have a chance :(
Least he was a funny pedant :)
The Daily Show, man! That's why people need that channel. Myself, I go into withdrawal when they're in reruns :/
Also, I work for one of the AV companies and I foresee that if we were to implement something like this, then eventually some obnoxious black hat would have an encrypted zip file attached to an email with 100 MB (or some ridiculous amount) of mail text. A deluge of these and, guess what, instant DOS attack!
Yes, we could automatically stop trying to open the zip after a certain amount of tries. That's just one more test case I'd have to go through, though ;)
Best of luck with the job search. It took me a good five months out of school to get my first real job (graduated 2001).
I just bought the M6807 about a month back, and I was very impressed with the raw speed and quality of the display for the price.
They've completely fixed up their support, too. I called once about a minor issue (turned out to be a weird power management setting) and the hold time was about 5 seconds--I was extremely impressed. I heard they just got bought by Gateway, though, so who knows how long the good times will last :(
I'd suggest you don't use Slashdot as your only news source, or you will suffer permanent brain damage.
That's priceless. Mind if I snag that as my sig?
. . . and both have a lot in common."
Like being mortal enemies?
(sorry, couldn't resist)
:)
Point taken. I've visited NoVA a few times, though, while my little sister went to GMU, and I have to say I wasn't terribly overwhelmed. The nightlife was cool, I'll give you that, but I wouldn't say it was markedly better than the Southside's (Norfolk, VA Beach, etc). I don't know, could be that's just because I don't know NoVA as well as I know hampton roads.
I live in NN right now, and while I can appreciate why somebody would want to leave the place, why NoVA? It's like Hampton Roads. But with really, really horrible traffic ;)
and had much the same reaction. I hope you don't live in the East End ;)
Now I can finally log in as this mysterious "Anonymous Coward".
Kalfus and Nachman, Hampton Roads, VA.
otherwise, revenge is stupid and it only continues a cycle of violence.
Says someone who was never picked on in school!
Normally, I don't resort to name-calling on this forum, but I honestly can't help it this time, you self-righteous jackass.
I am willing to sacrifice things like welfare, social security . . .
It's not exactly sacrifice on your part if you aren't currently using either of those two programs (which I assume you aren't, since you're willing to see them cut).
I don't think game prices have necessarily hit the ceiling, at least with regards to consoles. Think back to the heyday of the SNES. I remember paying something like $65 or $70 for SFII. FFIII was a pretty pricey game, too, if memory serves, but it sold a lot of copies. And if you put that in today's dollars, they were even more expensive.
No, consumers have proven that they'll pay a premium--the caveat is that if you charge more, then it'll have to be an amazing game to sell well. I'm sure if SNES's The Rocketeer had been $70, nobody would have bought it.