That has been my experience too. I've never been busted at card counting but I've been at some tables where someone has. They just politely but firmly ask you to leave. They even let you keep the money because it isn't worth the scene you might make otherwise. $200 bucks, that is nothing to them but your bitch'n about being robbed might turn some people away who would be spending more money.
It's Blackjack for me. When I play I don't expect to win. Hell, I expect to lose but that is not why I love to play. There is just something about sitting around with a bunch of random strangers and playing cards. Even if I am losing. And some times when I do win it's even better.
The real strategy to winning at blackjack against the casino is knowing when to quit.
That and they know the strategies in these books backwards and forwards. They know how to counter them, easy. A person using one of these strategies tends to be a dumb ass who won't think of this. They will continue to play using the strategy in the book no matter what and tend to lose more money than someone who is not playing with a strategy.
Casinos love nothing more than a sucker who thinks they got a winning strategy.
You just got threw in a holding cell? I got threw in the holding cell, had my teeth checked, strip searched, and they brought in a witchdoctor to commune with my dead relatives. When the bitch snapped on the rubber gloves, suddenly flying didn't seem like a good idea anymore.
We watched and applauded as OLPC began only to watch in dismay and tears as they project allowed itself to be taken over from within.
No, some of you watched and applauded. Most of us just stood on the side lines and shook our heads waiting for the train wreak. Most of use knew it was doomed to failure from the start. The basic concept itself was flawed. It the idea of giving free laptops to children in africa and asia before you have the infrastructure to support it? The 100 bucks spent on that laptop for one child could have gone to set up the basic infrastructure to feed a whole village, forever.
Feed the children, teach them basics like read/writing and basic sanitation. Not to shit in their own water supply. Make their bodies healthy then we worry about their mind.
I have yet to have drm hinder me in any way. I routinely copy dvd's, recode them to whatever I want them too, or just simply burn them to another dvd. I've downloaded music from whatever had what I wanted. I've never had windows tell me it won't do something.
What I'm saying is DRM does nothing to hinder us that don't care about the rules. Those that do care follow the rules so the DRM doesn't apply to them ether. DRM is useless.
AAC is technically superior to AC3 at all bitrates, I believe, but AC3 is a much simpler codec: you essentially get more bang for your buck with AC3 where decoding complexity is concerned
Yes, AAC is very much superior to ac3. I routinely recode 5.1 ac3 to 5.1 he-aac and stuff it into a mkv container. The space it saves vs the loss of audio quality from recoding is worth it. I actually have no beef against the aac codec. I think its an excellent successor to mp3/ac3.
The real gripe I have is with the asshats that came up with the mp4 container. Acc maybe better than ac3 but ac3 is the standard audio codec used on dvd's To not make it apart of the regular mp4 specs is just fucking insane.
Because it's simply the best out there for it. It support just about everything you can mux into it. AVI just don't cut it any more. MP4 was close and it is a good container but it left one important thing out. In a bout of stupidity rivaling the bay of pigs and the bush election the audio codec of choice for dvd, ac3, was left out of the spec. That's right. The standard audio format can't be used in mp4.
Now to be fair you can mux ac3 in a mp4 container using what is called user tracks or streams, or something like that. But that is not a official way to do it so it won't play on some mp4 devices.
People who complain about the mkv container are the same idiots who never used it. These are probably the same people that bitched because people used mp3, not completely free, over ogg, completely free. But yet they would rather you use a none gpl, {mp4,avi} container over one that completely gpl {mkv}.
I will admit I was one of those idiots. At first I preferred avi the mp4 for my container. Then I realized in some incredibly bout of stupidity the industrial standard for audio, ac3, was left out of the format. Let me rephrase that, the standard format for audio on dvd's, ac3, cannot be included in a standard mp4 container unless its in a "user" track.
Only amateurs and noobs use mp4 and avi anymore for containers. People that know what they are doing use mkv.
2) A brown family of nine people get on a plane. They are dressed in traditional clothing of Islamic people. Three of the young adults make a remark about where would be the safest place to sit on the plane in the event of an accident or explosion.
Holy Fuck'n Jesus on a carrot. I think AirTran did the right thing. Lord knows every airplane that as blown up as an act of terrorism in the last 30 years has been done by the Mexicans. Lets not forget 9 out of 10 act of terrorism are caused by rampaging midgets. Oh I'm, sorry little people.
What you call racial profiling I call common sense. If that just stick in your crawl then to bad. If the muslems want to stop being treated like scum then they need to stop acting like it.
Now then go ahead slashdot liberals label be a troll and flamebait me down to -2. I have karma to burn and I'm still right.
You want a cheap genny that will power your whole house? Check out the local hospital and nursing home surplus yards. Also check out goberment surplus too. My aunt and uncle located a surplus genny at a nursing home that had closed. I think they paid about 2500 bucks for it. It runs off a 250 gallon propane tank.
The thing won't just run a few appliances, it will run the whole fucking house and the one next door. I think they said it would run for 2 or 3 weeks on one load of gas.
That might be appropriate, but it would be a bad precident. Private property shouldn't be destroyed or confiscated except as punishment from a successful lawsuit or criminal conviction of the owner of that property. Civil Asset Forfeiture [fear.org] is similar to what you are saying, where something is confiscated because it is "evil" or tainted, ignoring the rights of the owner. Allowing police or courts the legal ability to destroy stuff without any recourse or having to get a conviction of the owner is bad, but we are pretty much there already.
Actually I was thinking more along the lines of the parents and not the police. To me something like this should be a private matter. In the prefect world the police/government/school would find out about children, below the age of 13, photographing themselves and they would simply turn the pictures and children over to their parents. Maybe a small investigation on the parts of the police to make sure the parents where not encouraging the kids to do and sell it. Then that would be the end of "official" action.
We all know that is not how it would work. The police would arrest the parents on distribution or possession of child pornography. Child services would come in, forcibly remove the children from parents, then they would subject the children to forceful therapy on what they did was wrong in the process plant subjective memories that daddy, mommy or a close family member fuck with them. Thus totally fucking up the children's mental state for the rest of their lives.
Once the brainwashing was complete and the parents get life on some government pervert list even if they are found innocent, the kids will be split up and sold off to the highest bidder in the foster game. Did I miss anything?
Yeah, I heard about that case. If a minor takes a picture of themselves in such act then they are harming nobody but themselves. My sympathy toward minors starts to drop off sharply after age 13. If the child is above 13 then the pictures in question could be a free speech issue. Under the age of 13, then the pictures should be destroyed and the child in question should be informed that this is inappropriate for someone of their age.
But then this is really a gray area to me and the law.
Going along this line of thinking so is Romeo and Juliette. It's about underage lovers so it could be classified as child porn too. Hell, a great deal of classic literature and art could be classified this way. What about all those paintings and stain glass windows. Them fucker display plenty of paintings of nude children. They just have wings that's all.
This is clearly a free speech issue to me. Photographs and films of children engaged in sexual acts are illegal because they harm the minor. I'm not 100% convinced of that but I'm going with that for now. Drawings of minors naked, engaged in sexual activity harm no one. Personally I think they are disgusting but it's still free speech and there for protected speech.
I always wondered why didn't they just cut the fucking cable, tie it off, and wait for a repair ship to show up? But then again they where trapped on that island for 15 years and to god damn stupid to build a boat. The professor could pull a fusion reactor out of his ass but couldn't fix a god damn boat engine.
Same here with ASUS starting with the A7N8X Deluxe. Very nice MB that I had almost no trouble with. Seems after that every ASUS MB I got more and more flaky. The last ASUS I rebooted and it just never came back. I switched over to Gigabyte after that and never had a issue, so far.
I had a MSI for about 6 months but it always did some weird shit. Every time I've thought about getting a ABIT my spider sense went off, or maybe it was The Force... "peace of shit, peace of shit..."
Interesting might be an understatement. More like "Oh Shit!" You know, those two words you never want to hear your bomb technician, drill operator, or gynecologist exclaim.
Well they found it. Seems to me this would be the best source of geothermal they could hope for. If they could just keep it from plugging up the bore hole.
Why don't we just shoot all the poor people? That would eliminate that burden on society and act as an encouragement for the rest to work harder. Simple, eliminate that base and you don't have to worry about taxing them.
(Yes I'm only kidding and, Yes, it is in poor taste.)
Because it's a pointless expense for ATM manufacturers to purchase non-braille keypads for drive-thru models, to warehouse the separate parts until manufacture, and to separately market ATMs without them. Next?
Nope, wrong. They are there because of the ADA. A stupid law that requires braille on drive in ATMs and outlaws round door knobs. But it does allow for the conically lazy to get good parking.
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That has been my experience too. I've never been busted at card counting but I've been at some tables where someone has. They just politely but firmly ask you to leave. They even let you keep the money because it isn't worth the scene you might make otherwise. $200 bucks, that is nothing to them but your bitch'n about being robbed might turn some people away who would be spending more money.
It's Blackjack for me. When I play I don't expect to win. Hell, I expect to lose but that is not why I love to play. There is just something about sitting around with a bunch of random strangers and playing cards. Even if I am losing. And some times when I do win it's even better.
The real strategy to winning at blackjack against the casino is knowing when to quit.
Are there any out there that don't use card shufflers at all? For me part of the fun is watching a expert shuffle cards. Its part of the show.
That and they know the strategies in these books backwards and forwards. They know how to counter them, easy. A person using one of these strategies tends to be a dumb ass who won't think of this. They will continue to play using the strategy in the book no matter what and tend to lose more money than someone who is not playing with a strategy.
Casinos love nothing more than a sucker who thinks they got a winning strategy.
You just got threw in a holding cell? I got threw in the holding cell, had my teeth checked, strip searched, and they brought in a witchdoctor to commune with my dead relatives. When the bitch snapped on the rubber gloves, suddenly flying didn't seem like a good idea anymore.
We watched and applauded as OLPC began only to watch in dismay and tears as they project allowed itself to be taken over from within.
No, some of you watched and applauded. Most of us just stood on the side lines and shook our heads waiting for the train wreak. Most of use knew it was doomed to failure from the start. The basic concept itself was flawed. It the idea of giving free laptops to children in africa and asia before you have the infrastructure to support it? The 100 bucks spent on that laptop for one child could have gone to set up the basic infrastructure to feed a whole village, forever.
Feed the children, teach them basics like read/writing and basic sanitation. Not to shit in their own water supply. Make their bodies healthy then we worry about their mind.
Once again Mad nails it right on the head. I'm going to get that issue and frame it.
I have yet to have drm hinder me in any way. I routinely copy dvd's, recode them to whatever I want them too, or just simply burn them to another dvd. I've downloaded music from whatever had what I wanted. I've never had windows tell me it won't do something.
What I'm saying is DRM does nothing to hinder us that don't care about the rules. Those that do care follow the rules so the DRM doesn't apply to them ether. DRM is useless.
AAC is technically superior to AC3 at all bitrates, I believe, but AC3 is a much simpler codec: you essentially get more bang for your buck with AC3 where decoding complexity is concerned
Yes, AAC is very much superior to ac3. I routinely recode 5.1 ac3 to 5.1 he-aac and stuff it into a mkv container. The space it saves vs the loss of audio quality from recoding is worth it. I actually have no beef against the aac codec. I think its an excellent successor to mp3/ac3.
The real gripe I have is with the asshats that came up with the mp4 container. Acc maybe better than ac3 but ac3 is the standard audio codec used on dvd's To not make it apart of the regular mp4 specs is just fucking insane.
Because it's simply the best out there for it. It support just about everything you can mux into it. AVI just don't cut it any more. MP4 was close and it is a good container but it left one important thing out. In a bout of stupidity rivaling the bay of pigs and the bush election the audio codec of choice for dvd, ac3, was left out of the spec. That's right. The standard audio format can't be used in mp4.
Now to be fair you can mux ac3 in a mp4 container using what is called user tracks or streams, or something like that. But that is not a official way to do it so it won't play on some mp4 devices.
People who complain about the mkv container are the same idiots who never used it. These are probably the same people that bitched because people used mp3, not completely free, over ogg, completely free. But yet they would rather you use a none gpl, {mp4,avi} container over one that completely gpl {mkv}.
I will admit I was one of those idiots. At first I preferred avi the mp4 for my container. Then I realized in some incredibly bout of stupidity the industrial standard for audio, ac3, was left out of the format. Let me rephrase that, the standard format for audio on dvd's, ac3, cannot be included in a standard mp4 container unless its in a "user" track.
Only amateurs and noobs use mp4 and avi anymore for containers. People that know what they are doing use mkv.
90% of all FBI and police officers are actually good people just trying to do their job. It's the remaining 10% are pigs.
2) A brown family of nine people get on a plane. They are dressed in traditional clothing of Islamic people. Three of the young adults make a remark about where would be the safest place to sit on the plane in the event of an accident or explosion.
Holy Fuck'n Jesus on a carrot. I think AirTran did the right thing. Lord knows every airplane that as blown up as an act of terrorism in the last 30 years has been done by the Mexicans. Lets not forget 9 out of 10 act of terrorism are caused by rampaging midgets. Oh I'm, sorry little people.
What you call racial profiling I call common sense. If that just stick in your crawl then to bad. If the muslems want to stop being treated like scum then they need to stop acting like it.
Now then go ahead slashdot liberals label be a troll and flamebait me down to -2. I have karma to burn and I'm still right.
You want a cheap genny that will power your whole house? Check out the local hospital and nursing home surplus yards. Also check out goberment surplus too. My aunt and uncle located a surplus genny at a nursing home that had closed. I think they paid about 2500 bucks for it. It runs off a 250 gallon propane tank.
The thing won't just run a few appliances, it will run the whole fucking house and the one next door. I think they said it would run for 2 or 3 weeks on one load of gas.
That might be appropriate, but it would be a bad precident. Private property shouldn't be destroyed or confiscated except as punishment from a successful lawsuit or criminal conviction of the owner of that property. Civil Asset Forfeiture [fear.org] is similar to what you are saying, where something is confiscated because it is "evil" or tainted, ignoring the rights of the owner. Allowing police or courts the legal ability to destroy stuff without any recourse or having to get a conviction of the owner is bad, but we are pretty much there already.
Actually I was thinking more along the lines of the parents and not the police. To me something like this should be a private matter. In the prefect world the police/government/school would find out about children, below the age of 13, photographing themselves and they would simply turn the pictures and children over to their parents. Maybe a small investigation on the parts of the police to make sure the parents where not encouraging the kids to do and sell it. Then that would be the end of "official" action.
We all know that is not how it would work. The police would arrest the parents on distribution or possession of child pornography. Child services would come in, forcibly remove the children from parents, then they would subject the children to forceful therapy on what they did was wrong in the process plant subjective memories that daddy, mommy or a close family member fuck with them. Thus totally fucking up the children's mental state for the rest of their lives.
Once the brainwashing was complete and the parents get life on some government pervert list even if they are found innocent, the kids will be split up and sold off to the highest bidder in the foster game. Did I miss anything?
Yeah, I heard about that case. If a minor takes a picture of themselves in such act then they are harming nobody but themselves. My sympathy toward minors starts to drop off sharply after age 13. If the child is above 13 then the pictures in question could be a free speech issue. Under the age of 13, then the pictures should be destroyed and the child in question should be informed that this is inappropriate for someone of their age.
But then this is really a gray area to me and the law.
Going along this line of thinking so is Romeo and Juliette. It's about underage lovers so it could be classified as child porn too. Hell, a great deal of classic literature and art could be classified this way. What about all those paintings and stain glass windows. Them fucker display plenty of paintings of nude children. They just have wings that's all.
This is clearly a free speech issue to me. Photographs and films of children engaged in sexual acts are illegal because they harm the minor. I'm not 100% convinced of that but I'm going with that for now. Drawings of minors naked, engaged in sexual activity harm no one. Personally I think they are disgusting but it's still free speech and there for protected speech.
I always wondered why didn't they just cut the fucking cable, tie it off, and wait for a repair ship to show up? But then again they where trapped on that island for 15 years and to god damn stupid to build a boat. The professor could pull a fusion reactor out of his ass but couldn't fix a god damn boat engine.
Same here with ASUS starting with the A7N8X Deluxe. Very nice MB that I had almost no trouble with. Seems after that every ASUS MB I got more and more flaky. The last ASUS I rebooted and it just never came back. I switched over to Gigabyte after that and never had a issue, so far.
I had a MSI for about 6 months but it always did some weird shit. Every time I've thought about getting a ABIT my spider sense went off, or maybe it was The Force ... "peace of shit, peace of shit..."
Sort of like pissing off the roof and being surprised when it hits the ground don't you think?
Interesting might be an understatement. More like "Oh Shit!" You know, those two words you never want to hear your bomb technician, drill operator, or gynecologist exclaim.
Well they found it. Seems to me this would be the best source of geothermal they could hope for. If they could just keep it from plugging up the bore hole.
Why don't we just shoot all the poor people? That would eliminate that burden on society and act as an encouragement for the rest to work harder. Simple, eliminate that base and you don't have to worry about taxing them.
(Yes I'm only kidding and, Yes, it is in poor taste.)
Because it's a pointless expense for ATM manufacturers to purchase non-braille keypads for drive-thru models, to warehouse the separate parts until manufacture, and to separately market ATMs without them. Next?
Nope, wrong. They are there because of the ADA. A stupid law that requires braille on drive in ATMs and outlaws round door knobs. But it does allow for the conically lazy to get good parking.