As it is, the PTC has used some particularly shady tactics, including their infamous "White" and "Black List" campaign during their feud with the WWF/E. (For those of you that were not aware, The PTC put up a list of advertisers that were advertising during the WWE's programming, and encouraging parents to boycott them, and then put up a list of "family friendly" businesses that weren't advertising during the WWE's programming. However, they either were lazy about updating the list, or they were outright lying, because they had, for months, advertisers on the white-list who were broadcasting on WWE shows, and advertisers on the black-list who had stopped).
Frankly, I will be suprised when the PTC stops pulling dirty tricks.
I still write cursive occasionally, mainly in personal notes. If I'm writing something that I need somebody else to be able to read, I definatly print instead of using cursive.
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I'm confused about the terminology: If it was used on patients who already had HIV, wouldn't that be a treatment rather than a vaccine? Or does the way if works -- apparently reconfiguring the immune system to recognize HIV -- technically qualify it as a vaccine since that's basically how vaccines work?
I'd imagine that this sort of therapy could be useful against a whole range of viruses since (as I understand) it operates by training the immune system rather than crippling something specific to the virus the way that other HIV treatments do. If that'd work for most viruses, maybe someday people will be able to just update their own virus definitions a few times a year -- of course, most of them probably wouldn't bother and then call me for support when they open some damn.exe file they got in their friggin' email and... Sorry, started drifting there for a second.
Well, in this case, it's both. A vaccine works by injecting dead (or weakened) material of whatever virus your immunizing against, into the system. The body builds special cells to attack the virus, and remembers that "virus definition", to continue the tech analogy. Should the virus attack (again), the body is prepared and is properly equipped to repel the attack.
The body normally does this on it's own when certain cells in the immune system (I forget the type. I believe they're lymphocytes) kill virus material, and Helper T Cells "read" the material, and sends the information back to the immune system, and tells it to prepare Killer T Cells (?) to destroy the infection. However, the problem with AIDS is, some of the virus has to be killed first, and the virus directly attacks the immune system, specifically, IIRC, Lymphocytes. So, Lymphocytes can't kill any of the virus in the early stages of the infection, so the Helper T Cells can't start production of Killer T cells so the virus can be wiped out.
Okay... so we just slap really stiff fines on people who spam, or who break into people's houses, or sell crack and heroin to kids, and stuff like that. What happens if they can't afford to pay the fines, or they make so much that even with the fines they still turn a profit?
Then we need something along the lines of what they have for states that allow Bond Enforcement Agents (read: Bounty Hunters) to bring in those who skip bail.
The government sets reward values (or something) for spammers, the bounty hunters bring them in, Spammers go to PYITA Jail.
Before you laugh off it off, recall the US Senate Subcommittee Investigation on Juvenile Delinquency in the United States. and all the recent stink about decency in television.
The comic industry, to placate the witch hunters offered self policing. Sound familiar? Wertham considered it a sham. Sound familiar, too?
To add to the point, remember how long it took to bounce back from the damage Wertham did. Having that happen to video games now could have catastrophic damage.
In the US, we had the Hacker Crackdown of the late 80's and early 90's where law enforcement started taking computer crime a little more seriously. Plus, after Kevin Mitnick was forbidden from accessing a computer for years that would probably be enough to discourage most U.S. hackers.
On the other hand, mosst of these worm-writers have been writing their viruses and malware in countries that have computer crime laws that are either weak, not enforced, or both. Thus, they can do whatever they want, because they won't get in trouble with their governments.
Now, if we could get the virus-writers in foreign countries extradited to the US based on damage done to systems here, we might see a decrease in the viruses and mal-ware out there.
Of course, switching to operating systems other then Windows helps too.
As a role player, I've played racist character (both for human races and various clans and/or species), sexist characters (try playing a 150 year old vampire from the deep south with*out* being racist and sexist), sadist, psychotic, mentally deficient, masochist, martyr, zealots of various natures, and members of the opposite sex plus a dozen races, species and creature types.
There was a long discussion/flame-war on rec.games.frp.dnd about this - specifically, what to do when something in-game ceases to be fun for the players. Specifically, a poster had given an example where, in game, a player had stated his intent for his character to rape an NPC (and a further intent to role-play the rape). The other players had stated that they did not want to be a part of this and did not want the player to continue with this course of action. The player did it anyway, so the other PCs killed the rapist PC.
Another poster on the group, a regular named Peter Knutsen said that the players were immature for letting their in-game feelings get in the way of the game, and for punishing the player for playing his character, even though the player with the rapist character's insistance on in-game rape was ruining the experience for everyone else. Flame war ensued.
Thiswhatyouwere talking about? (same event, but from different sources)
So far there haven't been any mass player 'porting by administrators to my knowledge. Does anyone know if this is not the case?
Evil Bandits (SCO Group) terroize (or in our case attempt to) an isolated village (Open Source Users), so the village brings in gunslingers (SCO, Novell, Red Hat) to fight them off.
Okay, so it's not excatly the same, but it's close.
I don't remember if Halo PC had co-op (I didn't buy it, since my computer couldn't run it), but Halo for the X-Box did, and the game was only beatable at it's highest difficulty on Co-Op anyway.
Well, it's an adaptation of the musical, with the original Broadway cast (Nathan Lane in Zero Mostel's part, etc.). Frankly, I'll watch it. I was broke when the musical came to Portland, and it didn't have the original Broadway cast anyway, so no Nathan Lane.
> There hasn't been a good NOVA series on in a while, especially not on Cosmology. I have my hopes up for this one...
What about their episodes on String Theory (The Amazing Universe or something like that)? I found it very, very interesting. Unfortunatly I didn't have a spare tape, so I couldn't record it.
They also had an interesting program (although I don't think it was part of NOVA) following a geneticist as he tracked the paths of human migration across the world.
Well, there was more to it thatn sigs of petition gatherers. Remember all the problems we had with signature shenanagins by both Bill Sizemore and Lon Mabon. We've got those laws for a good reason.
Besides, the conservatives get their hissy fits listened to also (like when there were the loads arguments against one of Lon Mabon's mesures that were disguised as arguments in favor and submitted to the voters pamphlet. Mabon's people got extremely upset and had a new screening process or something set up for Voter's Pamphlet arguments).
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You gotta love groupthink.
As it is, the PTC has used some particularly shady tactics, including their infamous "White" and "Black List" campaign during their feud with the WWF/E. (For those of you that were not aware, The PTC put up a list of advertisers that were advertising during the WWE's programming, and encouraging parents to boycott them, and then put up a list of "family friendly" businesses that weren't advertising during the WWE's programming. However, they either were lazy about updating the list, or they were outright lying, because they had, for months, advertisers on the white-list who were broadcasting on WWE shows, and advertisers on the black-list who had stopped).
Frankly, I will be suprised when the PTC stops pulling dirty tricks.
Can you mount rockets in the hands so you can launch them at your enemies?
Yes, they will protects us from The Terrible Secret of Space.
I still write cursive occasionally, mainly in personal notes. If I'm writing something that I need somebody else to be able to read, I definatly print instead of using cursive.
I'd imagine that this sort of therapy could be useful against a whole range of viruses since (as I understand) it operates by training the immune system rather than crippling something specific to the virus the way that other HIV treatments do. If that'd work for most viruses, maybe someday people will be able to just update their own virus definitions a few times a year -- of course, most of them probably wouldn't bother and then call me for support when they open some damn .exe file they got in their friggin' email and... Sorry, started drifting there for a second.
Well, in this case, it's both. A vaccine works by injecting dead (or weakened) material of whatever virus your immunizing against, into the system. The body builds special cells to attack the virus, and remembers that "virus definition", to continue the tech analogy. Should the virus attack (again), the body is prepared and is properly equipped to repel the attack.
The body normally does this on it's own when certain cells in the immune system (I forget the type. I believe they're lymphocytes) kill virus material, and Helper T Cells "read" the material, and sends the information back to the immune system, and tells it to prepare Killer T Cells (?) to destroy the infection. However, the problem with AIDS is, some of the virus has to be killed first, and the virus directly attacks the immune system, specifically, IIRC, Lymphocytes. So, Lymphocytes can't kill any of the virus in the early stages of the infection, so the Helper T Cells can't start production of Killer T cells so the virus can be wiped out.
Okay... so we just slap really stiff fines on people who spam, or who break into people's houses, or sell crack and heroin to kids, and stuff like that. What happens if they can't afford to pay the fines, or they make so much that even with the fines they still turn a profit?
Then we need something along the lines of what they have for states that allow Bond Enforcement Agents (read: Bounty Hunters) to bring in those who skip bail. The government sets reward values (or something) for spammers, the bounty hunters bring them in, Spammers go to PYITA Jail.
"QC" means "Queen's Council" (source: the "Rumpole of the Bailey" books).
But yeah, It'd be nice if iblist did do that.
I put something christmas-y on the label side of the CDs and use them for christmas ornaments.
The comic industry, to placate the witch hunters offered self policing. Sound familiar? Wertham considered it a sham. Sound familiar, too?
To add to the point, remember how long it took to bounce back from the damage Wertham did. Having that happen to video games now could have catastrophic damage.
Not 3.1, not 3.11, 3.0
Though, to be frank, I would consider Peace in the middle east to be a better sign of the Apocolypse.
In the US, we had the Hacker Crackdown of the late 80's and early 90's where law enforcement started taking computer crime a little more seriously. Plus, after Kevin Mitnick was forbidden from accessing a computer for years that would probably be enough to discourage most U.S. hackers.
On the other hand, mosst of these worm-writers have been writing their viruses and malware in countries that have computer crime laws that are either weak, not enforced, or both. Thus, they can do whatever they want, because they won't get in trouble with their governments.
Now, if we could get the virus-writers in foreign countries extradited to the US based on damage done to systems here, we might see a decrease in the viruses and mal-ware out there.
Of course, switching to operating systems other then Windows helps too.
There was a long discussion/flame-war on rec.games.frp.dnd about this - specifically, what to do when something in-game ceases to be fun for the players. Specifically, a poster had given an example where, in game, a player had stated his intent for his character to rape an NPC (and a further intent to role-play the rape). The other players had stated that they did not want to be a part of this and did not want the player to continue with this course of action. The player did it anyway, so the other PCs killed the rapist PC.
Another poster on the group, a regular named Peter Knutsen said that the players were immature for letting their in-game feelings get in the way of the game, and for punishing the player for playing his character, even though the player with the rapist character's insistance on in-game rape was ruining the experience for everyone else. Flame war ensued.
You can read the thread here
This what you were talking about? (same event, but from different sources) So far there haven't been any mass player 'porting by administrators to my knowledge. Does anyone know if this is not the case?
Evil Bandits (SCO Group) terroize (or in our case attempt to) an isolated village (Open Source Users), so the village brings in gunslingers (SCO, Novell, Red Hat) to fight them off.
Okay, so it's not excatly the same, but it's close.
No problem. If opinion's are like asses, /. is a nudist colony.
I don't remember if Halo PC had co-op (I didn't buy it, since my computer couldn't run it), but Halo for the X-Box did, and the game was only beatable at it's highest difficulty on Co-Op anyway.
Well, it's an adaptation of the musical, with the original Broadway cast (Nathan Lane in Zero Mostel's part, etc.). Frankly, I'll watch it. I was broke when the musical came to Portland, and it didn't have the original Broadway cast anyway, so no Nathan Lane.
If the DS's battery is anything like the GBA SP's battery, you can't remove it.
What about their episodes on String Theory (The Amazing Universe or something like that)? I found it very, very interesting. Unfortunatly I didn't have a spare tape, so I couldn't record it.
They also had an interesting program (although I don't think it was part of NOVA) following a geneticist as he tracked the paths of human migration across the world.
It is. PBS has been broadcasting all it's big specials and programs in HD these days (National Geographic Specials, Nova, Nature, etc.).
Besides, the conservatives get their hissy fits listened to also (like when there were the loads arguments against one of Lon Mabon's mesures that were disguised as arguments in favor and submitted to the voters pamphlet. Mabon's people got extremely upset and had a new screening process or something set up for Voter's Pamphlet arguments).