in what country was Megan's law passed? I don't know megan's law, so I cant really comment on it.
it is one thing for the police to have an overview of recent sexual offenders. This is not comparable to a publicly available database of people and crimes, where someone can look up that I got caught stealing a bag of crisps 12 years ago. (no, I didn't steal a bag of crisps 12 years ago, my sheet is clean)
On point 1: ok.. agreed. Here your job is definately suffering On point 2: That would most probably be illegal in europe. But IANAL, so don't take my word for it.
Computer programs started out open sourced. but now there is a closed source program too: windows, which shows that all closed source programs are instable, and are written by corporations lacking even the will to follow laws.
Bah.. I'm no good writing Taschek style, I can't make the statements above last more than 3 pages..
//rdj
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I am using opera, which does just that. Just don't visit pages with java, it tends to crash a bit...
it's in private time. your employer has shit to say about what you do with it. I am very much against the disclosure of criminal records. after you have paid your fines, done the jail time, had the therapy, and worked the social job you were sentenced to, you are supposed to have served your penalty. It makes no sense to add to this penalty by making it harder to re-integrate into society, I even think it is very much counter-productive.
Unfortunately this whole ugly story means no NVidia card for me. Maybe if they get enough (polite) responses from people announcing they will not be using NVidia products, they'll change their mind. Alright, it could be an oversight, but the whole issue could easily be resolved within 12 hours by simply releasing the source. By not doing this, and keeping the binary posted, they (IMHO) are disrespecting the whole idea behind Free Software. What NVidia should do (again, IMHO) is either release the source or stop distributing the offending product (the videodrivers). Ofcourse the latter solution will not make them very popular...
I don't entirely agree with you. I think in the case of a president, his presidency should be completely open. After all, a president is in the employ of the people. But there should be a distinction between Bill Clinton and president clinton. The man is not defined by his job, nor should he be. It's nobody's business if Bill C. likes to tie up Hillary to their kingsize bed over the weekends (purely fictional, don't go flaming me for that now:) that is his business (and Hillary's).
It just means you're paying for content you're not allowed to have. If I buy a simple compact cassette, I am also paying for the music that's not on it. so I borrow a friend's cd, and copy the music that I already payed for. I now have music, I payed for it, and I can change the medium by recording it to my HD. Pretty sure the RIAA will object to this, but that's not my problem. All recordcompanies are full of shit. When the cd was introduced in the Netherlands, the recordcompanies said they'd lower the price of cd's to about fl 25. This never happened, ofcourse.. cd's are still at fl 40. To add insult to injury grey import is not allowed any more. grey import allowed recordstores to buy their cd's in foreign countries, where cd's are cheaper. The artists had their cut, since these were official cd's. the only one NOT benefitting was the recordcompanies. bunch of moneygrabbing bastards...
No! don't kill jarjar! Just maim him.. and have him make regular appearances in ep. 2 with lines like: - AARRggHH!! - Not the face! - nnnnnngggghhh, these ropes are cutting into my wrists - but without a tongue I can't tal...AAAAAArr*bubble*
let alone the fines and/or sentences for a given case. This is probably where a thing like this would be most useful. The judge rules guilty, and looks up the punishment. Red Light? that'll be 150 GMU (generic monetary units). drunk driving? 1 driver's licence please.
The russian shuttle was an almost exact copy of the US shuttle, but it was called 'Boran' or something similar. I think it's in an amusement park somewhere at the moment. Energija is a russian booster-rocket, quite a powerful one. Can't give much details since I don't know them:)
P.S. You wouldn't happen to have Dre and Metallica's email-address would you? I'd be happy to send them some of your music so you canb sue them for illegal possession of music..
Some good points.. I even agree with most of them. And if the list (both black and white) were freely available, I'd agree completely. But right now if you want to protect your children, you have no idea what you are protecting them from. Sure, I wouldn't want my kids on the KKK-members-for-the-legalisation-of-drugging,rapin g-and-murdering-of-all-non-white-people homepage. But I see nothing wrong with sites about political parties, news, gay rights and several religions. But.. I could, without knowing it, be denying my kids these resources. And I have no easy way to check this. Everyone is free to use or not use censor-software on themselves and their kids. It's your choice. But with current practice of making it impossible toi check, I am denied the ability to make an informed choice.
what occult. there is no occult. it's a shape, pure and simple. sure I have revealed myself.. as someone who doesn't believe in any gods. To the people who know me this isn't news. It's not something I try to hide. I appreciate the prayers though, as a gesture of compassion.
the danger of kids getting sucked in has existed for years. Those on the net a little longer than the latest hype will know about MUDs, and this could be a legitimate concern. but as for satanic??? sure, it's a picture of a pentagram. It's not dangerous, it's a five-pointed star. It looks nice. What I would think a bigger problem is the fact that most RPGs seem to stress that a god or set of gods exist. I'm not worried.. I would expect my kids to think a little for themselves. And yes, some parental supervision might be in order, but then again IMO all parents should have a clue as to what their kids are doing.
I would say in general that symbolism and imagery are good, they teach kids that things are not always as they appear at first glance, and many many books contain quite a bit of symbolism. You didn't really think Animal Farm was about animals on a farm, did you?
working on my own one. I am right now trying the beer-belly approach, eat/drink lots of calories, have an office job. Still no weightgain.. bugger.. losing weight is never a problem, gaining is...
It's not that hard to put something in an attachment rather then in the body. any attachment is simply included in the body with separators. These separators can easily be built up by hand. dependant on the file, you may have to run uuencode over it though. This approach worked perfectly for me, is platform-independant and also not dependant on any overbloated application.
That campaign shook up quite a stink in the netherlands. competing ISPs tried suing. They lost. The truth hurts. Although this campaign was mostly targeted against the 'free' ISPs
day 1: the new recruits came in, and got handed their hand-helds. So far so good.
day 2: It seems some of the new recruits installed some software on their hand-helds. it's probably games or something. Most of the new recruits just beat me at quake, so they can't be all bad.
day 3: The new recruits are really getting into these hand-held things. We had to let off one of the new recruits. he kept whining about our dinners not including grits, and poured his dinner down his pants.
day 4: wtf did those guys do with their hand-helds? Not a decent window inside, just this silly dos-prompt. when I asked them about it, they started yelling that this was linux, not dos
day 5: I have no idea what the recruits are on. they keep talking about beautiful-wolf or something.
day 6: our encryption has been broken. It's been safe for at least 10 years, but the new recruits used their wolf (I havent seen any canine around) to crack it, and they knew the orders before I did.
I don't remember the year, but Philips used to have a game for their P2000 computers called 'Happelaar', which was also a pacman clone. They did loose however, even though the graphics were different. Not that you could ever get quality graphics on a P2000... Happelaar probably never made it to the international market, just the Netherlands.. must have been the name too, which is not exactly international.
I used to have a command line tool (gif2png) to convert gifs to png for dos, and there probably is one for linux. shouldn't be too hard to write a script that extracts the gifs, converts them and change the extension with png..
[snip]Providing you, the consumer, with a quality service or product is becoming sidelined by trading you as a commodity [snip]
It's never been about providing the consumer with any service or product. commercials and ads serve one master and one master only: the company providing the product or service. The whole idea is just to relieve you of as much cash as possible, and they will gladly relieve you of the burden of money. Tailored commercials are a service? sure.. but NOT a service for you, it's a service for the companies.
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in what country was Megan's law passed? I don't know megan's law, so I cant really comment on it.
it is one thing for the police to have an overview of recent sexual offenders. This is not comparable to a publicly available database of people and crimes, where someone can look up that I got caught stealing a bag of crisps 12 years ago. (no, I didn't steal a bag of crisps 12 years ago, my sheet is clean)
//rdj
On point 1: ok.. agreed. Here your job is definately suffering
On point 2: That would most probably be illegal in europe. But IANAL, so don't take my word for it.
//rdj
Computer programs started out open sourced. but now there is a closed source program too: windows, which shows that all closed source programs are instable, and are written by corporations lacking even the will to follow laws.
Bah.. I'm no good writing Taschek style, I can't make the statements above last more than 3 pages..
//rdj
I am using opera, which does just that. Just don't visit pages with java, it tends to crash a bit...
//rdj
it's in private time. your employer has shit to say about what you do with it. I am very much against the disclosure of criminal records. after you have paid your fines, done the jail time, had the therapy, and worked the social job you were sentenced to, you are supposed to have served your penalty. It makes no sense to add to this penalty by making it harder to re-integrate into society, I even think it is very much counter-productive.
//rdj
Unfortunately this whole ugly story means no NVidia card for me. Maybe if they get enough (polite) responses from people announcing they will not be using NVidia products, they'll change their mind. Alright, it could be an oversight, but the whole issue could easily be resolved within 12 hours by simply releasing the source. By not doing this, and keeping the binary posted, they (IMHO) are disrespecting the whole idea behind Free Software. What NVidia should do (again, IMHO) is either release the source or stop distributing the offending product (the videodrivers). Ofcourse the latter solution will not make them very popular...
//rdj
I don't entirely agree with you. I think in the case of a president, his presidency should be completely open. After all, a president is in the employ of the people. But there should be a distinction between Bill Clinton and president clinton. The man is not defined by his job, nor should he be. It's nobody's business if Bill C. likes to tie up Hillary to their kingsize bed over the weekends (purely fictional, don't go flaming me for that now :) that is his business (and Hillary's).
//rdj
It just means you're paying for content you're not allowed to have. If I buy a simple compact cassette, I am also paying for the music that's not on it. so I borrow a friend's cd, and copy the music that I already payed for. I now have music, I payed for it, and I can change the medium by recording it to my HD. Pretty sure the RIAA will object to this, but that's not my problem. All recordcompanies are full of shit. When the cd was introduced in the Netherlands, the recordcompanies said they'd lower the price of cd's to about fl 25. This never happened, ofcourse.. cd's are still at fl 40. To add insult to injury grey import is not allowed any more. grey import allowed recordstores to buy their cd's in foreign countries, where cd's are cheaper. The artists had their cut, since these were official cd's. the only one NOT benefitting was the recordcompanies. bunch of moneygrabbing bastards...
//rdj
No! don't kill jarjar! Just maim him.. and have him make regular appearances in ep. 2 with lines like:
- AARRggHH!!
- Not the face!
- nnnnnngggghhh, these ropes are cutting into my wrists
- but without a tongue I can't tal...AAAAAArr*bubble*
//rdj
Nah.. they'll just print Dyna-soar-achu, the pokemon. times change...
let alone the fines and/or sentences for a given case. This is probably where a thing like this would be most useful. The judge rules guilty, and looks up the punishment. Red Light? that'll be 150 GMU (generic monetary units). drunk driving? 1 driver's licence please.
//rdj
The russian shuttle was an almost exact copy of the US shuttle, but it was called 'Boran' or something similar. I think it's in an amusement park somewhere at the moment. Energija is a russian booster-rocket, quite a powerful one. Can't give much details since I don't know them :)
//rdj
nah.. you'll just be rich.
//rdj
P.S. You wouldn't happen to have Dre and Metallica's email-address would you? I'd be happy to send them some of your music so you canb sue them for illegal possession of music..
Some good points.. I even agree with most of them. And if the list (both black and white) were freely available, I'd agree completely. But right now if you want to protect your children, you have no idea what you are protecting them from. Sure, I wouldn't want my kids on the KKK-members-for-the-legalisation-of-drugging,rapin g-and-murdering-of-all-non-white-people homepage. But I see nothing wrong with sites about political parties, news, gay rights and several religions. But.. I could, without knowing it, be denying my kids these resources. And I have no easy way to check this. Everyone is free to use or not use censor-software on themselves and their kids. It's your choice. But with current practice of making it impossible toi check, I am denied the ability to make an informed choice.
//rdj
what occult. there is no occult. it's a shape, pure and simple. sure I have revealed myself.. as someone who doesn't believe in any gods. To the people who know me this isn't news. It's not something I try to hide. I appreciate the prayers though, as a gesture of compassion.
//rdj
Please don't make blasphemy illegal, religions will just start suing eachother.
religion1 Credo: There is only 1 god
religion2: No there's not, there's 7 of'em. Blasphemy! you denied the existence of our gods! Sue Sue Sue!!
//rdj
the danger of kids getting sucked in has existed for years. Those on the net a little longer than the latest hype will know about MUDs, and this could be a legitimate concern. but as for satanic??? sure, it's a picture of a pentagram. It's not dangerous, it's a five-pointed star. It looks nice. What I would think a bigger problem is the fact that most RPGs seem to stress that a god or set of gods exist. I'm not worried.. I would expect my kids to think a little for themselves. And yes, some parental supervision might be in order, but then again IMO all parents should have a clue as to what their kids are doing.
I would say in general that symbolism and imagery are good, they teach kids that things are not always as they appear at first glance, and many many books contain quite a bit of symbolism. You didn't really think Animal Farm was about animals on a farm, did you?
//rdj
working on my own one. I am right now trying the beer-belly approach, eat/drink lots of calories, have an office job. Still no weightgain.. bugger.. losing weight is never a problem, gaining is...
//rdj
It's not that hard to put something in an attachment rather then in the body. any attachment is simply included in the body with separators. These separators can easily be built up by hand. dependant on the file, you may have to run uuencode over it though. This approach worked perfectly for me, is platform-independant and also not dependant on any overbloated application.
//rdj
That campaign shook up quite a stink in the netherlands. competing ISPs tried suing. They lost. The truth hurts. Although this campaign was mostly targeted against the 'free' ISPs
//rdj
why not /. readers as JEDI soldiers? simple..
an officer's diary
day 1: the new recruits came in, and got handed their hand-helds. So far so good.
day 2: It seems some of the new recruits installed some software on their hand-helds. it's probably games or something. Most of the new recruits just beat me at quake, so they can't be all bad.
day 3: The new recruits are really getting into these hand-held things. We had to let off one of the new recruits. he kept whining about our dinners not including grits, and poured his dinner down his pants.
day 4: wtf did those guys do with their hand-helds? Not a decent window inside, just this silly dos-prompt. when I asked them about it, they started yelling that this was linux, not dos
day 5: I have no idea what the recruits are on. they keep talking about beautiful-wolf or something.
day 6: our encryption has been broken. It's been safe for at least 10 years, but the new recruits used their wolf (I havent seen any canine around) to crack it, and they knew the orders before I did.
.........
//rdj
ah.. the joys of moderation...strange though how unrated things can be overrated..
//rdj
I don't remember the year, but Philips used to have a game for their P2000 computers called 'Happelaar', which was also a pacman clone. They did loose however, even though the graphics were different. Not that you could ever get quality graphics on a P2000... Happelaar probably never made it to the international market, just the Netherlands.. must have been the name too, which is not exactly international.
//rdj
I used to have a command line tool (gif2png) to convert gifs to png for dos, and there probably is one for linux. shouldn't be too hard to write a script that extracts the gifs, converts them and change the extension with png..
//rdj
[snip]Providing you, the consumer, with a quality service or product is becoming sidelined by trading you as a commodity [snip]
It's never been about providing the consumer with any service or product. commercials and ads serve one master and one master only: the company providing the product or service. The whole idea is just to relieve you of as much cash as possible, and they will gladly relieve you of the burden of money. Tailored commercials are a service? sure.. but NOT a service for you, it's a service for the companies.
//rdj