It's the eleventh commandment as translated from ancient l33t arameic : "Thy shalt not p0wn thy neighbours box."
They didn't get it at the time and left it out.
Totally agreed.
Except they aren't brainwashed by their own crap. It's just that they do it because they can. In the contries where industrial piracy is really big (say East Asia), the legit stuff is really cheap and at "impulsive" prices (well, for tourists, not necesserally the average Joe). At 12 euros for the latest PC game (original, legal copy) and less for a DVD movie, why bother downloading it? Heck, at those prices I'd take too, maybe three instead of having to make a choice. And I'd risk buying something that I'm 100% not sure I'll like.
"Nostalgia for an age that never existed" as Jello Biafra said in a song. Then refering to the 50-60s US that people remember for Rock'n'Roll, milkshakes and proms. Instead 50-60s US was more like McArthyist commie-witch-hunts (war on comies...) and other problems that still exist today (racism, homophobia). Oh and those "Golden Years"... an apparthied existed in the US of A.
Ah such freedom, except if you happened to be something else then white-anglo-saxon-protestant.
Offtopic but what's wrong with boobs?
I was brestfed so I saw a pair quite often when I was very young.
I'd say it's the ones obsesed with hiding them that have a problem. It doesn't have to be a sexual reference all the time.
BUT! I more than likely use VASTLY less fuel than you do
I doubt it. I use only 2 modes of transportation: my two feet and electric (from hydrolic source) train. Plus I don't even own a vehicule, heck I probably forgot how to drive. But I'm just lucky the public transportation is pretty good between where I live and where I work. But with plenty of place for enhancement (trains getting pretty crowded and not frequent enought).
Why not? Many countries tax cars with bigger engines more then smaller ones. AND they tax the fuel as well. The end result is cars with equal performance being more economical (in MPG therms) in Europe then in the US. Sure, the rich guys still get their Hummers and Ferraris but (unfortunally for the enviroment) it's their liberty.
I have that on all my picture on all my credit cards.
In the rare occasions people do check for my signature they go "oh that's useful, a picture".
I don't know why they don't do the same everywhere. Signature validation is bull as some people are good at faking them, people suck at validating them and everybodies signature changes slightly depending on the situation. Looking at my face and comparing it to a color picture sounds so much easier and safer.
The only workaround would be changing the picture on the card but it's printed on it so it starts getting complicated and costly for the thief.
Don't spit on the people who don't have the time, the money, the skill or just don't like to build themselves a system. My case being the last one, I spend enought time at work making computers roll over so when I get home I don't feel like spending too much time on then.
Those who want to can go and build their own ultimatelly-customized setup which is pretty cool. It's just not for everybody.
Is not to get a real PC.
I've been planing for almost a year to build myself a media pc. Compared different possibilities, looked around for the software I could use.
And in the end I've settled of a modded XBOX. Best choice for the price!
It does everything I want with the fantastic XBOX Media Center software plus some other homebrew software (XMAME and stuff) and a couple of nice Python scripts.
The only technical requirement it to know how to user FTP.
On the downside, it's doesnt do PVR at all:-(. If someone figured out how to stick a TV card on this thing I'm pretty sure they'll make to software for it but it's not the case.
So if you can live without the PVR facilities, this baby should do all you music listening, movie playing, picture browsing and classic gaming on your TV.
You can put the money saved of a PC to buy a dedicated PVR which can be programmed form the XBOX. There are scripts the show the TV program and can control some PVRs.
That's a very nice comparason of apples and oranges.
Contrary to guns and drugs, freedom of expression is a much more globally accepted right.
Like in the Human Rights and that sort of thing.
Besides, there has been state-sponsored drug shipments (Afganistant living off heroin comes to mind). Mind you that drugs and gun traffic has international laws that apply.
I sure hope that no international law will apply against freedom of expression. On the contrary, lets hope more countries sign the Human Rights (hello China, oh and the US is welcomed as well amongs others).
For that matter, exactly how do they expect to access password or IP protected sites?
Exactly! It's a scheme designed by the developpers to get their hands of the world biggest (and only), state-sponsored, porn website login database. One that will contain every pornsite know to man.
I pity the fools who shall weld such power.
I tend to think "24" is a little like 1984 but seen from the other end of the big brother camera (hey, think of the henchmen!). It actually gets quite funny seen like that.
Depends on what they mean by "cure". I guess when he says "cure asthma" he means "it's good to drink more water when you have asthma" (which is true). But that wouldn't sell books as any doctor will give you that advise without the "magical properties" part. I helps, but only a little and that has medical basis: more liquid in the body helps unclog the alveoles in the lungs. And I mean helps. I doesn't save the day.
Agreed. The XBox is quite simply the best (specially for it's price) media center PC you can have. Software like XBOX Media Center are just fantistic in every way.
I'm pretty sure that if the industry opened their eyes they would see what their carefully protected hardware could have been.
If you can't beat them, join them. Then people wont need to mod their boxes to hell just to have it user it's full potential.
But WikiPedia did work like that, sort of.
Wikipedia's founder made a failed attempt for a open encyclopedia but with the content passing an aprouval process. It was a big failure unlike Wikipedia. I'd rather see this sort of discussion (a very democratic process) going on then not having access to the great content of Wikipedia.
Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nupedia.
Well, he did create everything + a midget out of nothing so swiming is the least of things he can do.
Don't doubt his powers like those creationist/darwinian folks;-).
I disagree. The worst job I've ever had I was doing only small overtime and working on weekends on one single occasion. But the psychological pressure and the amout of work I had to put out in the hours of work exausted my mind and body completely. Some work enviroments really suck all you energy and will even if you don't do extraordinary overtime.
I got home at a decent time but I was dead tired, fell on my bed as soon as I got home and took a big nap before fetching something quick to eat then slept. The weekends I didn't work but I was too tired to do anything but rest.
top worrying about the rest of the country or the rest of the world or even the rest of your state
Yeah sure, what the World needs is the US ignoring even more what's happening elsewhere. I would have rather said "stop trying to fix the rest of the State/Country/World". But keeping in touch with what happens in our World while working to improve our close communities is probably more positive.
Some communities kind mind their own business when their business is influenced by a very close-by neighbour. They have to work together in common interest. But sure, I guess that in the US there are plenty of far-and-away communities who just have to take care of themselves and not worry about the rest. They just need to keep in touch with what's happening.
And what really enfuriates me, is that people panic and floc to not-yet-proven (or just plain paranoid) methods to protect themselves against the latest very exotic, very rare decease they heard about on TV...
People run around like headless chickens when a few die of mad cow or whatever but nobody cares about AIDS killing thousands daily.
The latest mediatic decease ends up killing less then you normal flu, or the car, or alcohol.
Fear and ignorance go hand in hand my friends while the real risks are ignored.
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It's the eleventh commandment as translated from ancient l33t arameic : "Thy shalt not p0wn thy neighbours box."
They didn't get it at the time and left it out.
Totally agreed.
Except they aren't brainwashed by their own crap. It's just that they do it because they can. In the contries where industrial piracy is really big (say East Asia), the legit stuff is really cheap and at "impulsive" prices (well, for tourists, not necesserally the average Joe). At 12 euros for the latest PC game (original, legal copy) and less for a DVD movie, why bother downloading it? Heck, at those prices I'd take too, maybe three instead of having to make a choice. And I'd risk buying something that I'm 100% not sure I'll like.
"Nostalgia for an age that never existed" as Jello Biafra said in a song. Then refering to the 50-60s US that people remember for Rock'n'Roll, milkshakes and proms. Instead 50-60s US was more like McArthyist commie-witch-hunts (war on comies...) and other problems that still exist today (racism, homophobia). Oh and those "Golden Years"... an apparthied existed in the US of A.
Ah such freedom, except if you happened to be something else then white-anglo-saxon-protestant.
Oh no, not that movie!
It makes "Hostel" seem like a children's christmass special.
Offtopic but what's wrong with boobs?
I was brestfed so I saw a pair quite often when I was very young.
I'd say it's the ones obsesed with hiding them that have a problem. It doesn't have to be a sexual reference all the time.
You don't choose anarchy. Anarchy chooses you.
I guess your sig describes your work enviroment well.
BUT! I more than likely use VASTLY less fuel than you do
I doubt it. I use only 2 modes of transportation: my two feet and electric (from hydrolic source) train. Plus I don't even own a vehicule, heck I probably forgot how to drive. But I'm just lucky the public transportation is pretty good between where I live and where I work. But with plenty of place for enhancement (trains getting pretty crowded and not frequent enought).
Why not? Many countries tax cars with bigger engines more then smaller ones. AND they tax the fuel as well. The end result is cars with equal performance being more economical (in MPG therms) in Europe then in the US. Sure, the rich guys still get their Hummers and Ferraris but (unfortunally for the enviroment) it's their liberty.
I have that on all my picture on all my credit cards.
In the rare occasions people do check for my signature they go "oh that's useful, a picture".
I don't know why they don't do the same everywhere. Signature validation is bull as some people are good at faking them, people suck at validating them and everybodies signature changes slightly depending on the situation.
Looking at my face and comparing it to a color picture sounds so much easier and safer.
The only workaround would be changing the picture on the card but it's printed on it so it starts getting complicated and costly for the thief.
Don't spit on the people who don't have the time, the money, the skill or just don't like to build themselves a system. My case being the last one, I spend enought time at work making computers roll over so when I get home I don't feel like spending too much time on then.
Those who want to can go and build their own ultimatelly-customized setup which is pretty cool. It's just not for everybody.
Is not to get a real PC. :-(. If someone figured out how to stick a TV card on this thing I'm pretty sure they'll make to software for it but it's not the case.
I've been planing for almost a year to build myself a media pc. Compared different possibilities, looked around for the software I could use.
And in the end I've settled of a modded XBOX. Best choice for the price!
It does everything I want with the fantastic XBOX Media Center software plus some other homebrew software (XMAME and stuff) and a couple of nice Python scripts.
The only technical requirement it to know how to user FTP.
On the downside, it's doesnt do PVR at all
So if you can live without the PVR facilities, this baby should do all you music listening, movie playing, picture browsing and classic gaming on your TV.
You can put the money saved of a PC to buy a dedicated PVR which can be programmed form the XBOX. There are scripts the show the TV program and can control some PVRs.
That's a very nice comparason of apples and oranges.
Contrary to guns and drugs, freedom of expression is a much more globally accepted right.
Like in the Human Rights and that sort of thing.
Besides, there has been state-sponsored drug shipments (Afganistant living off heroin comes to mind). Mind you that drugs and gun traffic has international laws that apply.
I sure hope that no international law will apply against freedom of expression. On the contrary, lets hope more countries sign the Human Rights (hello China, oh and the US is welcomed as well amongs others).
He's preped and ready for it: http://deaacs.com/.
As soon as he can get his hands on the hardware, he'll get on it.
For that matter, exactly how do they expect to access password or IP protected sites?
Exactly! It's a scheme designed by the developpers to get their hands of the world biggest (and only), state-sponsored, porn website login database. One that will contain every pornsite know to man.
I pity the fools who shall weld such power.
I tend to think "24" is a little like 1984 but seen from the other end of the big brother camera (hey, think of the henchmen!). It actually gets quite funny seen like that.
Depends on what they mean by "cure". I guess when he says "cure asthma" he means "it's good to drink more water when you have asthma" (which is true). But that wouldn't sell books as any doctor will give you that advise without the "magical properties" part. I helps, but only a little and that has medical basis: more liquid in the body helps unclog the alveoles in the lungs. And I mean helps. I doesn't save the day.
Agreed. The XBox is quite simply the best (specially for it's price) media center PC you can have. Software like XBOX Media Center are just fantistic in every way.
I'm pretty sure that if the industry opened their eyes they would see what their carefully protected hardware could have been.
If you can't beat them, join them. Then people wont need to mod their boxes to hell just to have it user it's full potential.
But WikiPedia did work like that, sort of.
Wikipedia's founder made a failed attempt for a open encyclopedia but with the content passing an aprouval process. It was a big failure unlike Wikipedia. I'd rather see this sort of discussion (a very democratic process) going on then not having access to the great content of Wikipedia.
Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nupedia.
Well, he did create everything + a midget out of nothing so swiming is the least of things he can do. ;-).
Don't doubt his powers like those creationist/darwinian folks
I disagree. The worst job I've ever had I was doing only small overtime and working on weekends on one single occasion. But the psychological pressure and the amout of work I had to put out in the hours of work exausted my mind and body completely. Some work enviroments really suck all you energy and will even if you don't do extraordinary overtime.
I got home at a decent time but I was dead tired, fell on my bed as soon as I got home and took a big nap before fetching something quick to eat then slept. The weekends I didn't work but I was too tired to do anything but rest.
Don't forget the blind-folded brest-feading. Don't won't no kids looking at tits untill they're 21!
top worrying about the rest of the country or the rest of the world or even the rest of your state
Yeah sure, what the World needs is the US ignoring even more what's happening elsewhere. I would have rather said "stop trying to fix the rest of the State/Country/World". But keeping in touch with what happens in our World while working to improve our close communities is probably more positive.
Some communities kind mind their own business when their business is influenced by a very close-by neighbour. They have to work together in common interest. But sure, I guess that in the US there are plenty of far-and-away communities who just have to take care of themselves and not worry about the rest. They just need to keep in touch with what's happening.
price of Pixar was $7.4 billion with a b dollars
Thats a lot but it may have been interesting to say it was in Disney stock.
And what really enfuriates me, is that people panic and floc to not-yet-proven (or just plain paranoid) methods to protect themselves against the latest very exotic, very rare decease they heard about on TV...
People run around like headless chickens when a few die of mad cow or whatever but nobody cares about AIDS killing thousands daily.
The latest mediatic decease ends up killing less then you normal flu, or the car, or alcohol.
Fear and ignorance go hand in hand my friends while the real risks are ignored.
Sounds like the average "big robot defender" type of anime.
Substitute the troubled teenage pilot with a dog and you'r off.