I like that idea. I post all of my fiction online for free to anybody who can figure out how to ask me for the password (password protected = not published, if you must know. That's important when talking to a publisher) and most of my writings I consider to be "beta" versions of the books/stories. They're beta until someone buys them. Until then, I take all feedback I get and use it to make the story better. It's worked for me so far (though I haven't sold anything, I've gotten better feedback after incorporating others' suggestions) and it feels good to "give away" fiction in this way but still maintain the ability to publish if a publisher ever shows an interest.
"I don't see how hardcore pornography is defended by the 1st amendment. Softcore or erotic photography certainly can be art, but not the hardcore dime-a-dozen variety found online."
First off, "some nudity is art" isn't the problem, "all nudity isn't art" is the road they're trying to go down.
Secondly, A dime a dozen? I'd need a second job!:D
As an aspiring comic-writer (see.sig) I would love to quit my job and draw all day long. As a realist, I know that this will likely never happen. However, if it/does/ happen, I would like some way to profit from it while giving people the right to do with it what they want. Being also very busy, I haven't looked into it (considering it will likely never be an issue).
We went from the relatively inexpensive C64 the relatively expensive IBM PC for the same reasons we went from the relatively inexpensive horse-drawn carriage to the Model T.
Um, the "nothing" in your little pattern there/is/ the payoff. The boss says something that would get you fired in any office in the civilized world, and the guy/gal he says it to just stares at him. That's the joke. The lack of a laugh track may be making it hard for you to decide when to laugh.
C=Male comedian of moderate fame. W=Wife that is far skinnier/prettier/smarter than he is. T=Title that is a takeoff on a famous phrase. K=number of kids. N=Wacky neighbor. E=Shown in a 'weekend' time slot.
How did a murder morph into a moral arguement on if digital "property" is as good as solid property? Dude's dead. Someone murdered him. That someone should get serious time or death for it.
Investors and observers who have been awaiting the debut of Infinium Labs Inc..s (OTCBB: IFLB).Phantom Gaming System. will have to wait a little longer. The Company, which has repeatedly delayed introduction of its Phantom, now claims that its.goal. is to.commence the launch. of the product in the fourth quarter of 2005 . but only if it can first secure at least $11.5 million. That is just the beginning. Infinium says it will need $22.2 million over the next year. At last report, the Company had $4,102 in available cash.
*Isn't that the same folder that Half-Life 2 was
in?*
Actually, yes. Some times things are announced, sit for half a decade, and then come to fruition. That doesn't mean anything though because far more often they do not.
I'm not skeptical to be skeptical. I'm skeptical because this console was announced, what, 5 years ago? More?
Don't get me wrong, if it comes out and kicks ass I'll be all over it, but until I see a working machine I can fiddle with at the game store I'll place your console in the file folder with Duke Nukem Forever.
Are you sure you're not a monk? I look at one dot, and the other two disappear within about 5 seconds. If I blink or jog my eyes at all they come back.
You have to hold your head really really still.
Perhaps monks, due to all their training, blink a lot?
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Wow, lots of firetossing here. I'll just reply to the first of many.
*there is a cost to recovering and reconstructing those accounts. Not to mention trying to figure out where all those holes in security came from and patching them.*
While I don't condone in any way what this guy did, you can't charge the guy who cracked your poor security system with fixing it. If someone breaks into your house becasue you never bought a lock for your door, you can't throw 'lock for the door' in with what he took.
Funny, I've installed Firefox on 5 "machines" (actually, 3 machines, 2 of them with 2 different operating systems) myself, all of them quite different. Firefox installed with no problems on all of them, and ran exactly the same. The 200 mhz laptop was a bit sluggish, but it still ran. In linux, the laptop is fine with Firefox.
IE won't run on three of those machines (they're running Linux) so my experience is exactly the opposite of yours.
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I like that idea. I post all of my fiction online for free to anybody who can figure out how to ask me for the password (password protected = not published, if you must know. That's important when talking to a publisher) and most of my writings I consider to be "beta" versions of the books/stories. They're beta until someone buys them. Until then, I take all feedback I get and use it to make the story better.
It's worked for me so far (though I haven't sold anything, I've gotten better feedback after incorporating others' suggestions) and it feels good to "give away" fiction in this way but still maintain the ability to publish if a publisher ever shows an interest.
The ACLU is not for or against States Rights. They are for Civil Liberties. That's why they're the ACLU and not the ASRU.
"I don't see how hardcore pornography is defended by the 1st amendment. Softcore or erotic photography certainly can be art, but not the hardcore dime-a-dozen variety found online."
:D
First off, "some nudity is art" isn't the problem, "all nudity isn't art" is the road they're trying to go down.
Secondly, A dime a dozen? I'd need a second job!
As an aspiring comic-writer (see .sig) I would love to quit my job and draw all day long. As a realist, I know that this will likely never happen. However, if it /does/ happen, I would like some way to profit from it while giving people the right to do with it what they want. Being also very busy, I haven't looked into it (considering it will likely never be an issue).
We went from the relatively inexpensive C64 the relatively expensive IBM PC for the same reasons we went from the relatively inexpensive horse-drawn carriage to the Model T.
South Park did it!
*I designed and built my own. It's the best ever built, and I'm undoubtedly the greatest delusionometer designer there is.*
Does it run Linux?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Um, the "nothing" in your little pattern there /is/ the payoff. The boss says something that would get you fired in any office in the civilized world, and the guy/gal he says it to just stares at him. That's the joke. The lack of a laugh track may be making it hard for you to decide when to laugh.
This is fun, let's make up our own formulas.
C=Male comedian of moderate fame.
W=Wife that is far skinnier/prettier/smarter than he is.
T=Title that is a takeoff on a famous phrase.
K=number of kids.
N=Wacky neighbor.
E=Shown in a 'weekend' time slot.
CW+(TKN)^-E
It's a joke.
And I usually like British humor. Strange, that.
How did a murder morph into a moral arguement on if digital "property" is as good as solid property? Dude's dead. Someone murdered him. That someone should get serious time or death for it.
2.5 weeks ago, StockPatrol.com has this to say:
.Phantom Gaming System. will have to wait a little longer. The Company, which has repeatedly delayed introduction of its Phantom, now claims that its .goal. is to .commence the launch. of the product in the fourth quarter of 2005 . but only if it can first secure at least $11.5 million. That is just the beginning. Infinium says it will need $22.2 million over the next year. At last report, the Company had $4,102 in available cash.
Investors and observers who have been awaiting the debut of Infinium Labs Inc..s (OTCBB: IFLB)
*Isn't that the same folder that Half-Life 2 was
in?*
Actually, yes. Some times things are announced, sit for half a decade, and then come to fruition. That doesn't mean anything though because far more often they do not.
I'm not skeptical to be skeptical. I'm skeptical because this console was announced, what, 5 years ago? More?
Don't get me wrong, if it comes out and kicks ass I'll be all over it, but until I see a working machine I can fiddle with at the game store I'll place your console in the file folder with Duke Nukem Forever.
Why not forever? A bad patent doesn't instantly become a good one after it's been a patent for 9 months.
They totally deserve $700/hour for this.
Are you sure you're not a monk? I look at one dot, and the other two disappear within about 5 seconds. If I blink or jog my eyes at all they come back.
You have to hold your head really really still.
Perhaps monks, due to all their training, blink a lot?
Wow, lots of firetossing here. I'll just reply to the first of many.
Dude, it was a joke.
*there is a cost to recovering and reconstructing those accounts. Not to mention trying to figure out where all those holes in security came from and patching them.*
While I don't condone in any way what this guy did, you can't charge the guy who cracked your poor security system with fixing it. If someone breaks into your house becasue you never bought a lock for your door, you can't throw 'lock for the door' in with what he took.
The police have apologized to his mother for kicking in her door, but it was the only way they could reach the basement.
They put a link to Wikipedia right in the article! How will I karma whore now?
Funny, I've installed Firefox on 5 "machines" (actually, 3 machines, 2 of them with 2 different operating systems) myself, all of them quite different. Firefox installed with no problems on all of them, and ran exactly the same. The 200 mhz laptop was a bit sluggish, but it still ran. In linux, the laptop is fine with Firefox.
IE won't run on three of those machines (they're running Linux) so my experience is exactly the opposite of yours.
*What features will it have that will encourage me to jump ship again?*
The feature where Windows Update complains that you haven't updated to it yet, over and over and over and over...
So preorder today or you won't get one until 2008!
You got the white house, give us one governor in one state.