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What guarantees do we have (and from whom) that the CIA respects this restriction on their actions? What are the penalties if they do violate this? And most importantly, how do we know that tomorrow/next month/5 years from now there will still be this restriction and it will still be as toughly enforced?
Reminds me of Rage Against the Machine's Testify video. It has clips from a really campy old silent sci-fi flick, with quotes like
Aliens plot to conquer Earth!
Launch the mutant now!
Then the mutant is launched, but it appears as Bush and Gore. Then there's the people fleeing in horror and "He appears as two, but speaks as one!" The rest of the video has clips of both Bush and Gore saying the exact same thing, just worded differently.
"Talk" vastly inferior to AIM/ICQ? It's true, but keep in mind Talk was around a little bit before the rest. It's apples to oranges, like comparing Space Invaders to UT2003; they're so far apart in time comparison is meaningless. I don't see how Trillian steals intellectual property from the other messenger companies. Instead of running 4 (5, if you count Trillian's IRC support) different clients, each using up its own system resources, each with a different interface for me to figure out, shouldn't I have the option of running 1 program to access all of the networks? Also, Gnucleus does not make money off people trading files. Gnucleus is freeware and open source. It's other companies like NeoNapster and the old Morpheus that rip Gnucleus' source code off in an attempt to make money.
What I really want is Ogg support for my Nomad Jukebox. I'm getting very tired of ripping one version of albums in Ogg for my computer and another in MP3 for the Jukebox. With xiph.org's open source decoder libraries out, there's very little excuse for any portable device that supports MP3 to not support Ogg as well.
I put GTA3, Vice City, Eminem, Marilyn Manson, etc. in the same catergory: scapegoats people use when something goes wrong with society. Their reasoning is if they point the finger at someone else quickly enough, no one will point the finger at them. 2 kids shot up Columbine? If their parents had paid a tiny bit of attention to them they might have noticed something early enough to do something about it and it never would have happened. But that doesn't matter, all that matters is they played violent video games and listened to loud music. The media can't be to blame for glorifying violence either (live coverage of the latest war, proudly sponsored by Coca-Cola, anyone?), because the media are the ones bringing us our news, our atrocities, and our thoughts. I see this complaining about Vice City as "softening the beachhead", so when whatever bad happens 6 months from now they can say "These kids played games like Vice City, that's what made them do these horrible things. We told everyone when these games came out that they would cause things like this, now look what's happened!"
P2P networks are a *better* kind of sharing than the sharing we were taught when we were kids.
Example: I have a candy bar. Bill and Sally don't have candy bars but want one. Solution: I break my candy bar into three pieces and give everyone a piece.
Compare this to P2P: I have a file. Bill and Sally don't have the file but want it. Solution: I send them each the file.
With the candy bar, we each get only a third of the candy bar. With P2P, everyone has the whole file. And then if Joe comes along, Sally can share the file with him as well, and then Joe will have the complete file.
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You're forgetting the tags that are the basis of strong web design, like marquee, blink, bgsound, etc. Script tags are also very useful, for scrolling status bars, alerts that tell you how cool the page is, text that follows your cursor, and anything else you can copy/paste from annoyinghtmlforaolers.com
What guarantees do we have (and from whom) that the CIA respects this restriction on their actions? What are the penalties if they do violate this? And most importantly, how do we know that tomorrow/next month/5 years from now there will still be this restriction and it will still be as toughly enforced?
Big Magnet is watching you...
How about "playback challenged"?
Aliens plot to conquer Earth!
Launch the mutant now!
Then the mutant is launched, but it appears as Bush and Gore. Then there's the people fleeing in horror and "He appears as two, but speaks as one!" The rest of the video has clips of both Bush and Gore saying the exact same thing, just worded differently.
>I don't have a WWII radar
See if you can pick one up used. Great for burritos, popcorn, and neighbors' annoying pets.
"Talk" vastly inferior to AIM/ICQ? It's true, but keep in mind Talk was around a little bit before the rest. It's apples to oranges, like comparing Space Invaders to UT2003; they're so far apart in time comparison is meaningless. I don't see how Trillian steals intellectual property from the other messenger companies. Instead of running 4 (5, if you count Trillian's IRC support) different clients, each using up its own system resources, each with a different interface for me to figure out, shouldn't I have the option of running 1 program to access all of the networks? Also, Gnucleus does not make money off people trading files. Gnucleus is freeware and open source. It's other companies like NeoNapster and the old Morpheus that rip Gnucleus' source code off in an attempt to make money.
What I really want is Ogg support for my Nomad Jukebox. I'm getting very tired of ripping one version of albums in Ogg for my computer and another in MP3 for the Jukebox. With xiph.org's open source decoder libraries out, there's very little excuse for any portable device that supports MP3 to not support Ogg as well.
Of course, because a game about Desert Storm teaches kids good wholesome American values, like killing anyone with a different skin color than you.
I put GTA3, Vice City, Eminem, Marilyn Manson, etc. in the same catergory: scapegoats people use when something goes wrong with society. Their reasoning is if they point the finger at someone else quickly enough, no one will point the finger at them. 2 kids shot up Columbine? If their parents had paid a tiny bit of attention to them they might have noticed something early enough to do something about it and it never would have happened. But that doesn't matter, all that matters is they played violent video games and listened to loud music. The media can't be to blame for glorifying violence either (live coverage of the latest war, proudly sponsored by Coca-Cola, anyone?), because the media are the ones bringing us our news, our atrocities, and our thoughts. I see this complaining about Vice City as "softening the beachhead", so when whatever bad happens 6 months from now they can say "These kids played games like Vice City, that's what made them do these horrible things. We told everyone when these games came out that they would cause things like this, now look what's happened!"
P2P networks are a *better* kind of sharing than the sharing we were taught when we were kids.
Example: I have a candy bar. Bill and Sally don't have candy bars but want one. Solution: I break my candy bar into three pieces and give everyone a piece.
Compare this to P2P: I have a file. Bill and Sally don't have the file but want it. Solution: I send them each the file.
With the candy bar, we each get only a third of the candy bar. With P2P, everyone has the whole file. And then if Joe comes along, Sally can share the file with him as well, and then Joe will have the complete file.