All Federal wiretaps are not overlooked by FISA only thoses related to forgien intelligence. Also they have not had every single wiretap request accept; what has never happened so far is someone who was wiretapped, under FISA, has not been informed that they were ever wiretapped, this is according to the ACLU, so if the person did not publicly talk they would not of known. Also it is not publicly known the total number of wiretapes that FISA has approved, about the only thing that is known is that once of the judges has said thier is not alot of work that needs to be done.
Now if you to read some thing about FISA that is really scary check out Executive Order 12949.
You forget history so quickly. When Clinton launched those missles in retaliation for the embassy bombings, the GOP and right wing attack dogs accused him of "Wagging the Dog".
However you are skipping a significat amount of time between the launch and the attacks of "wagging the dog". After the initial attack the vast majority of right wings were with him and felt it was about time, it was only after time when it became ovious that the only time he was going to attack were when clinton wanted them to be the headlines not the investigation into him. The most disagreement about the initial attacks were that they were against insignificant locations that were of minor or no value to the enemy.
The rest is filled with so many leftist lies it is not worth discussing.
The only time you see the game will be totally twitch based is from stuff back in 2001, and people who keep repeating that.
If you read the current stuff, unless they did a massive turn around since April/May 2004, they say things like "Twitch reflexes will play a part in combat" "uses the same 'Point and Click interface' that the rest of SWG uses", input commands into the attack queue, it is a role-playing game not a fps, etc.
And while not turn based in the sense of chess people still call it turn based because of the attack queue. Yes I would agree that the combat systems in MMORPGs go so fast that consider them turn based is wrong that is what people call them, so I have gotton over my opposition and with this just go with teh flow.
"The current combat system is turn-based but the space expansion is supposed to be FPS-style combat"
What was said is that it will be more FPS like.
The way it works is similar to the current combat system, however instead of turning and firing at something behind you, you can only fire when the target is in front of you. This does force a more FPS type system since you need to continually manuver, however it is still turned based and the skills of your character determine hit/miss.
If is cool that players are the ones that make and sell the spaceships, provided you are one of the makers and don't mind that grind. However if you are one of thoses people that don't want to focus on crafting then it is a major grind having get enough credits to get ship, then enough to continually repair it.
If people are looking for a FPS with a Star wars feel they are better off waiting for Star War Battlefield, which will contain X-wing, tie fighters and other from all movies.
It is not illegal to have a monopoly public or private.
What is illegal is using that monopoly to gain additional monolpies or abusing your monopoly.
That is part of the discussion with microsoft media player. Are they using thier monopoly in the operating system to gain a monopoly in the media play area, if in fact that is a different market.
The census portion of "Reading at risk" is based on the actual report called "The Survey of Public Participation in the Arts"
In "The Survey of Public Participation in the Arts." they say the
following:
In 2002, 56 percent of respondents indicated
they had read a book during the previous 12
months, about the same as in 1992. However, the percentage
of respondents reading literature, defined in the
survey as plays, poetry, short stories or novels,
decreased by 8 percentage points from 1992 to 2002
(46 percent of 2002 respondents), a statistically significant
drop.
The reading at risk report is more worried that you are not reading Charles Dicken or a book of poetry then it is something like Quicksilver. In addition it is ignoring all thoses that are reading Code Complete 2(great second editon to a great book) because the original survey would of classified that as being read for work or school.
They have been pushing this kind of stupidity on thier commercial software for a few years. Reason my Dad switched products. Was figuring that they would do it to the consumer and figured I would have to switch products. Guess I will be totally dumping all my quicken software after this year.
The partriot act does require that a judge certify before it is allowed. Granted it is a FISA judge, and because of the requirements it is rarly rejected. However all that goes back to a 1978 law, which the patriot act expands on. If you want to discuss the problem with the 1978 FISA law or the patriot act expantions that is something different.
Also this is a different topic then the original one. To complain about a law that forbiddes librarian getting served a search warrent(as described by american library associsation) then calling up the person and offering to sell the information is silly.
It does not prevent any library staff about informing about the law. What it does is prevent them from informing you that a judge has approved that you can be monitored. Same as if they get approval to trace your phone calls, the phone company cannot call you up and tell you they are doing it.
However if libarians were to go around, only after the event has taken place, and told the targeted person that they should read up on the library search provision in the Patriot act then I guess you could say they are being prevented from informing people about the law.
However, because they will not be enacters of new law in their role as President/Vice President (unlike our present administration)they will need the support of Congeress to not get this law renewed when it comes up for vote.
If they have actually said this then they are the dumbest people who want to be President, even dumber then uninformed people claim President Bush is.
Any person running for that type of office has thier own goals and items they want to accomplish and the only way to do that is to get new law passed. While no president(past or present) has the abaility to make new law(excluding that which is allowed by use of an executive decision) they do have supporters that put get laws into Congress which everyone knows comes from the President.
Since this was on the house side, it should be up to the Senate sometime soon. Anyone have the date?
How many want to bet that Kerry's name will not be on the list of thoses voting NAY?
The past few months have shown that the MMOG market is getting satiated (sp?) and already some big titles have stopped development.
Not sure if staturation is really the problem, you can look at final fantasty,city of heroes, sims online, and even SWG and see they did bring alot of new people into the game.
The real problem and evidence in sims online, SWG, horizons, AC2, shadowbane and others recent releases is that you cannot release a buggy game with little or no content and expect to compete.
If the game is not better in functions and have decent new content people will go back to thier old games(daoc,eq,AC1)(Ac1 just added a new server) and wait for a next game. Also it is not like people are requiring a new game to compete with a game that has been out 4-5 years with new content added all that time, just new games that are comparable to thoses old games when they were released. With all those above games they have just not delivered, they figured they could compete on just graphics and an empty playground.
It is like if Doom 3 is released and while having better graphic game play wise it is equal to doom 1.
It all rotates around e-bay(or similar sites).
In almost all games you can make a small amount by selling whatever is the in-game currency.
For EQ most of the good game items drop off of a specific monster(aka mob aka mobile object use google) or monster type and other characters need thoses items to progress. So you just go around getting thoses needed items and instead of trading in game for items you need you sell them on ebay.
The last real way of making real world money is to level new characters up and selling them.
All of this works because some people have more real world money then time and thoses people want powerful characters.
Sony and others do have wording that it is forbidden to sell in game stuff but that is mainly to protect themselves, after all they don't want to be sued because someone just spent $500 on item and that item was never given to them or for some reason thier is a server crash and they loose the item they just purchased.
The TSA could get more or less the same results by adding express lanes requiring a minimum of 50000 miles on your frequent-flyer card.
While not in the article referenced the only frequent flyers who quailitied were thoses who had 75,000 miles. Not sure if that qualification was just for getting in this initial testing or if it will be a normal qualification to get in the program.
Microsoft was the distributer they did not make the game, that was Big Huge Gamges.
Big huge games was founded by Brian Reynolds who did work on the Civ sequal and Alpha Centauri.
They would not be competing with steel knives but with ceramic ones. Cermainc knives also do not need to be sharpened, however they are no good for prying type actions. I would guess that glassy steel knives would be the same way.
As for loosing thier edge knives loose it from that however you can remove most of that from a sharpening steel. You loose alot of your edge from hitting the cutting surface, which is the main reason(besides costs) cermaic knifes are used for soft stuff as opposed to dicing an onion. Will be interesting to see how much force is needed, and if we don't see a new material for knives.
One of the E3 reports on WO reported that the devs said they had over 1 1/2 years left on development and that thier were a big disagreement on various design point.
They were not designed to hit anything. They were design to drop and explode causing a fire in forest. Doing this would of caused a diversion of resources. They did cause a few small fires, it was a wet year.
IIRC under 10 American civilians did die because of picking them up and it exploding on them. Big news at the time because it was the only successfull attack on the US main land.
Canada declared war indepentaly on germany almost a week after england declared war.
Some canadian women where killed by the germans in uboat attack.
As for attacks in the pacific field, main ones were at hong kong, however canadians were also at wake field at a few others.
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All Federal wiretaps are not overlooked by FISA only thoses related to forgien intelligence. Also they have not had every single wiretap request accept; what has never happened so far is someone who was wiretapped, under FISA, has not been informed that they were ever wiretapped, this is according to the ACLU, so if the person did not publicly talk they would not of known. Also it is not publicly known the total number of wiretapes that FISA has approved, about the only thing that is known is that once of the judges has said thier is not alot of work that needs to be done.
Now if you to read some thing about FISA that is really scary check out Executive Order 12949.
You forget history so quickly. When Clinton launched those missles in retaliation for the embassy bombings, the GOP and right wing attack dogs accused him of "Wagging the Dog".
However you are skipping a significat amount of time between the launch and the attacks of "wagging the dog". After the initial attack the vast majority of right wings were with him and felt it was about time, it was only after time when it became ovious that the only time he was going to attack were when clinton wanted them to be the headlines not the investigation into him. The most disagreement about the initial attacks were that they were against insignificant locations that were of minor or no value to the enemy.
The rest is filled with so many leftist lies it is not worth discussing.
The only time you see the game will be totally twitch based is from stuff back in 2001, and people who keep repeating that.
If you read the current stuff, unless they did a massive turn around since April/May 2004, they say things like "Twitch reflexes will play a part in combat" "uses the same 'Point and Click interface' that the rest of SWG uses", input commands into the attack queue, it is a role-playing game not a fps, etc.
And while not turn based in the sense of chess people still call it turn based because of the attack queue. Yes I would agree that the combat systems in MMORPGs go so fast that consider them turn based is wrong that is what people call them, so I have gotton over my opposition and with this just go with teh flow.
"The current combat system is turn-based but the space expansion is supposed to be FPS-style combat"
What was said is that it will be more FPS like.
The way it works is similar to the current combat system, however instead of turning and firing at something behind you, you can only fire when the target is in front of you. This does force a more FPS type system since you need to continually manuver, however it is still turned based and the skills of your character determine hit/miss.
If is cool that players are the ones that make and sell the spaceships, provided you are one of the makers and don't mind that grind.
However if you are one of thoses people that don't want to focus on crafting then it is a major grind having get enough credits to get ship, then enough to continually repair it.
If people are looking for a FPS with a Star wars feel they are better off waiting for Star War Battlefield, which will contain X-wing, tie fighters and other from all movies.
It is not illegal to have a monopoly public or private.
What is illegal is using that monopoly to gain additional monolpies or abusing your monopoly.
That is part of the discussion with microsoft media player. Are they using thier monopoly in the operating system to gain a monopoly in the media play area, if in fact that is a different market.
The census portion of "Reading at risk" is based on the actual report called "The Survey of Public Participation in the Arts"
In "The Survey of Public Participation in the Arts." they say the following:
In 2002, 56 percent of respondents indicated they had read a book during the previous 12 months, about the same as in 1992. However, the percentage of respondents reading literature, defined in the survey as plays, poetry, short stories or novels, decreased by 8 percentage points from 1992 to 2002 (46 percent of 2002 respondents), a statistically significant drop.
The reading at risk report is more worried that you are not reading Charles Dicken or a book of poetry then it is something like Quicksilver. In addition it is ignoring all thoses that are reading Code Complete 2(great second editon to a great book) because the original survey would of classified that as being read for work or school.
They have been pushing this kind of stupidity on thier commercial software for a few years. Reason my Dad switched products. Was figuring that they would do it to the consumer and figured I would have to switch products. Guess I will be totally dumping all my quicken software after this year.
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004- 06/04/09.00.books
The partriot act does require that a judge certify before it is allowed. Granted it is a FISA judge, and because of the requirements it is rarly rejected. However all that goes back to a 1978 law, which the patriot act expands on. If you want to discuss the problem with the 1978 FISA law or the patriot act expantions that is something different.
Also this is a different topic then the original one. To complain about a law that forbiddes librarian getting served a search warrent(as described by american library associsation) then calling up the person and offering to sell the information is silly.
It does not prevent any library staff about informing about the law. What it does is prevent them from informing you that a judge has approved that you can be monitored. Same as if they get approval to trace your phone calls, the phone company cannot call you up and tell you they are doing it.
However if libarians were to go around, only after the event has taken place, and told the targeted person that they should read up on the library search provision in the Patriot act then I guess you could say they are being prevented from informing people about the law.
Quick start protecting the muggers, rapist and murders.
What group does the Patriot Act single out and go against?
However, because they will not be enacters of new law in their role as President/Vice President (unlike our present administration)they will need the support of Congeress to not get this law renewed when it comes up for vote.
If they have actually said this then they are the dumbest people who want to be President, even dumber then uninformed people claim President Bush is.
Any person running for that type of office has thier own goals and items they want to accomplish and the only way to do that is to get new law passed. While no president(past or present) has the abaility to make new law(excluding that which is allowed by use of an executive decision) they do have supporters that put get laws into Congress which everyone knows comes from the President.
Since this was on the house side, it should be up to the Senate sometime soon. Anyone have the date?
How many want to bet that Kerry's name will not be on the list of thoses voting NAY?
The theater I saw RoTK did have a intermission. Was around 10 mins, time to hit the bathroom and purchase a snack.
The past few months have shown that the MMOG market is getting satiated (sp?) and already some big titles have stopped development. Not sure if staturation is really the problem, you can look at final fantasty,city of heroes, sims online, and even SWG and see they did bring alot of new people into the game.
The real problem and evidence in sims online, SWG, horizons, AC2, shadowbane and others recent releases is that you cannot release a buggy game with little or no content and expect to compete.
If the game is not better in functions and have decent new content people will go back to thier old games(daoc,eq,AC1)(Ac1 just added a new server) and wait for a next game. Also it is not like people are requiring a new game to compete with a game that has been out 4-5 years with new content added all that time, just new games that are comparable to thoses old games when they were released. With all those above games they have just not delivered, they figured they could compete on just graphics and an empty playground.
It is like if Doom 3 is released and while having better graphic game play wise it is equal to doom 1.
It all rotates around e-bay(or similar sites).
In almost all games you can make a small amount by selling whatever is the in-game currency.
For EQ most of the good game items drop off of a specific monster(aka mob aka mobile object use google) or monster type and other characters need thoses items to progress. So you just go around getting thoses needed items and instead of trading in game for items you need you sell them on ebay.
The last real way of making real world money is to level new characters up and selling them.
All of this works because some people have more real world money then time and thoses people want powerful characters.
Sony and others do have wording that it is forbidden to sell in game stuff but that is mainly to protect themselves, after all they don't want to be sued because someone just spent $500 on item and that item was never given to them or for some reason thier is a server crash and they loose the item they just purchased.
The TSA could get more or less the same results by adding express lanes requiring a minimum of 50000 miles on your frequent-flyer card.
While not in the article referenced the only frequent flyers who quailitied were thoses who had 75,000 miles. Not sure if that qualification was just for getting in this initial testing or if it will be a normal qualification to get in the program.
iddqd switches you to god mode. meaning you cannot be hurt.
Microsoft was the distributer they did not make the game, that was Big Huge Gamges.
Big huge games was founded by Brian Reynolds who did work on the Civ sequal and Alpha Centauri.
They would not be competing with steel knives but with ceramic ones. Cermainc knives also do not need to be sharpened, however they are no good for prying type actions. I would guess that glassy steel knives would be the same way.
As for loosing thier edge knives loose it from that however you can remove most of that from a sharpening steel. You loose alot of your edge from hitting the cutting surface, which is the main reason(besides costs) cermaic knifes are used for soft stuff as opposed to dicing an onion. Will be interesting to see how much force is needed, and if we don't see a new material for knives.
One of the E3 reports on WO reported that the devs said they had over 1 1/2 years left on development and that thier were a big disagreement on various design point.
How about the google toolbar?
If you have the option on it records information about your searchs and sends them back to google.
At least it is not a dupe.
They were not designed to hit anything. They were design to drop and explode causing a fire in forest. Doing this would of caused a diversion of resources. They did cause a few small fires, it was a wet year.
IIRC under 10 American civilians did die because of picking them up and it exploding on them. Big news at the time because it was the only successfull attack on the US main land.
Canada declared war indepentaly on germany almost a week after england declared war.
Some canadian women where killed by the germans in uboat attack.
As for attacks in the pacific field, main ones were at hong kong, however canadians were also at wake field at a few others.