(ok, almost any tool - it's kind of hard to abuse a Nerf bat - I know, I've tried).
Obviously you didn't take off the soft foam and beat a person with the hard plastic inside. And if it doesn't come off, just turn the bat around. The handle, even though it's usually covered in foam, is very solid.
Now this may not be a big deal considering Joe Dogooder is an upstanding citizen so he would have nothing to hide. John Cheatman is an altogether different story.
It's not a big deal, and most of us have nothing to hide that isn't already hidden, so what exactly is your point?
John has been having an affair on his wife of 30 years, and he happens to be a millionaire. Wonder what he'd do if someone threw together a video portrait of his weekly (Thursday 7:00pm to be exact) sexcapade with his executive assistant. I wonder how much he'd be willing to pay to stop that from being exposed. Hell, one could make a fortune between him and his wife if they wanted.
Oh, so you're saying that the information can be used to obtain video of someone cheating on their wife? Well how about this, you shouldn't cheat on your wife? No? We should all be allowed to do that? Ok how about this... most people who are considering cheating on their wife, know not to use their EZ Pass, pay for everything in cash and keep no receipts. Also, I've driven in a ton of cars with onstar and they only start recording anything when you press that button, tracking information isn't recorded every time you get into the car, I can't call up onstar and ask them where my friend's car was yesterday at 5:30 (and neither can he.) Besides, a private investigator can just track a person all day, most people don't know when someone is tailing them (if the PI is good at what they do) and they can still video tape the whole thing.
Jack K. Politician is another upstanding guy. He's running for his local seat against Todd R. Hardstone who's known to pull of some dirty campaign tricks. Hardstone's team decided they were going all out this time leaving no digital trick undone. Forging email headers to make it seem as if Jack was sending out racist comments, creating all sorts of digital chaos. If you think it doesn't happen in government, think again. It's actually done with ease for those in the computer security field, and for anyone who would be willing to invest a few hours time learning the ropes. Aside from that, money talks, meaning someone can hire a "lone gunman" if you will to do the deeds for you.
So what exactly does forging e-mail headers have to do with anything else you mentioned about privacy? I see no relation at all so I'm just going to ignore that and pretend it wasn't mentioned.
Pretty boring writing so far you could say, surely it is, I mean people are all good hearted they would never do such a thing. Who would want to track someone like that. Well, did you know Choicepointclaims to have about 16 billion records on American citizens? 16 billion is a hell of a lot considering there are only about 300 million citizens, so average that out for yourself and ask yourself, what do they have on me?
Ok that's 53 records on average. They would have less information on me since I don't fill out little registration cards and all that, and I never give out real information. So my number would be much lower, but lets say that is 53. That could be anything, from my level of education, my job category, my name, address, phone number, all that stuff. Now if I wanted to find out what that stuff was I'd go here and make a request on my own personal info. Then I'd read it and go "Oh, that was very boring."
Where is the privacy you ask? You gave it away. No one else but you.
Well, not really, I'm sitting in my room right now, no one who isn't watching me knows what I am doing. No one has any idea what time I'm going to go to sleep. No one knows what I'm going to do tomorrow except for those people who will see me do it. So I have to ask you, when did I give away my privacy? Maybe you meant my sister. To let you know, she's the person who signs up for every supermarkets shoppers club cards, she fills out all those surveys o
So the judge doesn't think I have a right to decide what my child has access to?
Actually the judge does think you have a right to decide what your child has access to, the judge doesn't think you have a right to decide what MY child has access to.
The level of panic surrounding the Y2k bug should have made this clear to anyone. Far too many people (some of them policymakers) panicked at the thought of "global power outages" and, as Katrina showed, far too many were left stranded, unprepared, and unaided when a real disaster struck.
Ok, I think the victims of hurricane Katrina were affected by more than just power outages... I don't think that any of the people in the storm were concerned about their being no power to charge their laptops, blackberrys, and using their electric can openers as much as they were with the massive amounts of water flooding into their houses. Wait, now that I think about it more, I don't think any of the Katrina victims that were actually still around during the storm had laptops, blackberrys and electric can openers.
Think about it. Joe Consumer sees the Blu_ray at "The Wiz" or "Best Buy", and drools "Wow, what a sharp picture!!!". He buys the unit, takes it home, pops in a standard DVD on his standard TV set, and then wonders where all the extra resolution is.
No, he'll say "Wow I can't believe how amazing this looks" and he'll tell his family he got some brand new blu ray player for $500 and show them and they'll say "Wow it looks great!" and then he'll show a real videophile and they'll say "What the hell is wrong with you, you don't even have an HDTV..." or they'll just smile and say nothing knowing the guy is a moron. People will convince themselves what they're experiencing is the best image ever after they spend a ton of money on a blu ray player, and anyone who is aware that the image quality didn't change, will also be aware of the fact that they need a TV that supports the higher resolutions.
It's a model, it's supposed to look nice, and it does looks nice, it looks like a real engine. It has a lot of details that a real engine has. You're mostly paying for the plans since it took a while to design the whole model.
Did you even read the article? It's not meant to work on low resolution poorly compressed consumer grade pictures. It's more for raw images, and it says 8MP is too low and 16 is good, so that's just a handful of pro cameras and they all take raw images.
That says up through high school. I mean technically I was also a jock up through high school. Do I look like a jock? No. Do I have the sex life of a jock? Well... yeah, but not while I was a "jock" because while I was a jock, I didn't focus on JUST physical sports I focused on video games and sports were just some other thing I did to see how I liked it. A real jock is dedicated to sports like football and basketball and all that. He's dedicated to video games and just so happened to play those sports. And did you read this?
"I don't really have time to indulge in anything," said Wendel. "I'm so dedicated and so determined to be the best I don't have time to indulge in other stuff."
To most people that says "24 year old virgin living in mother's basement." I used to be as dedicated to gaming as he was and I was very good at it, but then I started going out and just hanging out with people. I started to enjoy that more and more, and now video games are just something I might play 2 hours a week at most. If I could wake up tomorrow with his skill, but I had to be as dedicated as he was I'd turn down the offer, it's all about what you enjoy most in life. He enjoys being the best at everything and he seems to be the best at video games so he's going to continue that.
An athlete is someone who participates in sports. Sports are activities that require you to do something, have some skill, and there must be a defined ruleset. Usually they're competetive. Since playing computer games fit into the deffinition of a sport, Fatal1ty is an athlete and gaming is a sport. Just because it doesn't fit into your idea of sport, doesn't mean it's not a sport.
If you log on to AIM five months from now and a dozen bots auto-add themselves and immediatly start sending you ads to refinance your home or buys some herbal V| A GR @, then it might be more of a concern.
Yep, I might have to switch to a new IM service *gasp*. Or have all of my friend's join IRC.
Their actions don't have to be cool, their actions might make them a little more money, and bother most of their users. I can see most people who know how, deleting the two bots from their buddy list.
Think of it this way, if someone adds two bots to an IRC channel that you frequent, there's nothing you can do about it if it's their server (other than never join that channel again), these bots go away when you delete them from your buddy list.
I figured it was because NYC is such a massive city and has so much stuff going on. Isn't it also known as the financial capital of the world? Not because of zoning laws... would you care to explain what's so bad about houston?
Personally, I've lived in NYC my whole life (except a year when I lived in AZ.) If I had to choose, I'd probably choose Houston. It's a good sized city, so it won't be hard finding a lot of thing's I've gotten used to (except of course, pizza, and going to B&H for camera gear.) The roads are 100x better, the houses in the suburbs are laid out much nicer, it's warmer, cheaper cost of living.
Translation: I've got this mother fucking hog of a vehicle, and I want to come up with some outrageous bits of hyperbole to justify me still driving the vehicle that ultimately gives Middle Eastern despots control over my country, pollutes the atmosphere and is starting to make my pocket book and the overall economy crumble.
Translation: I lack reading comprehension skills.
A better translation of his post would have been: You shouldn't get bonuses on what you drive but on how you drive. If someone drives 100 miles a day in a hybrid they shouldn't get a bonus because they're polluting more, and using more gas, than someone driving an H2 Hummer 2 miles a day. Driving a hybrid just means someone will save money on gas, not reduce harmful emissions.
Or you can have excersize machines like they have on the ISS and force the astronauts to excersize a certain amount each day to keep themselves in shape.
How does one confuse a leopard with a puma, especially when the animal in question is not running, but lying dead in front of you?
Or maybe they are talking about mysterious out-of-place big cats that alternate between two shapes:-?
I'm sorry but if I saw a big black leopard and a big black puma (and even a big black jaguar) in front of me, I would have no idea which one is which. I would think that for a hunter, it's about the same. And I would also think that since the only evidence they've got is a tail and a bad photograph, it's kind of hard to identify the animal.
Am I missing something or does the article say nothing about what the new technique was? And why only the Da Vinchi drawings were the only ones that could have lead to this discovery.
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I've got 2 computers with 6 hard drives, a refrigerator and a small pepsi machine, my room sounds like a wind tunnel and that's just the way I like it!
I've really never been bothered by the noise, it's very loud in my room and I'm just used to it. If it was silent in here I'd never be able to fall asleep because I'm just used to hearing that noise in the background and that always helps me sleep. Kind of like a wave machine or something, it's peacefull. Lets me know we still have power. If I wanted to make a silent PC I could probably do it pretty easily, water cooled and kept in a box (like a wooden box or a cabinet or something like that) with sufficient ventilation.
I'll tell you who cares... my wife. She cares a lot about how much money I make. That's one reason she has sex with me. Money makes her feel comfortable and secure. So comfortable that she'll do anything to keep me around... and I mean anything. And, I like that.
So what you're saying is that your wife doesn't love you, but you make her feel comfortable and secure so she'll do anything to keep you around? And do you know poor people have sex too? Quite a bit more than rich people, I hear that's been going on for many many years. It has some thing to do with two people enjoying sex, coming together, liking each other, thinking the other person is attractive or whatever, and somehow they end up having sex. Money doesn't usually enter it unless the person is shallow and just looking for money, then it becomes important.
The parent was trying to say that if you can't enjoy your money, it's not worth having, obviously you have time to do things you want to do (like have sex with your wife, or whatever else you might do.) And your friend used his money to buy cigarettes and use them to bribe people. His point was that if you spend all your time working, then you'll have no time to enjoy the money you've earned.
The fine for anyone caught selling a "violent title" ( apparently defined by the bill as real or simulated graphic depictions of physical injuries or physical violence against parties who realistically appear to be human beings) to minors will initially be $5,000, and can go as high as $40,000...'"
So if a news story shows soldiers shooting their guns at a target, or if they show a video of a missle destroying a tank, do they get fined? Or is it because you can't see the people being killed, that it's fine? What if a man runs out of the tank on fire on a life news broadcast, will they then be fined since the person doens't just appear to be a human being, they actually are a human being, and they're really on fire. Does the news now then to pay a fine?
People around here upgrade there computers a lot (and by upgrade I mean throw out the old one and buy a new one) so I see a lot of old computers on the streets. I usually take them to see what I can salvage and almost 90% of the time there's data left on the drive.
The interesting thing is, my aunt who is beyond computer illiterate, had me come over and wipe her hard drives clean before she got rid of her old computers. I guess if you're someone used to destroying paper bills and information before you throw it out, you'll understand that it's important to destroy information on a computer before you throw it out as well.
This isn't a personal attack on you, but your post brings up something I've been wondering about recently: unless you rip your music at ultra-high sampling rates, 120 GB is from 41 to 83 days of music. Can anyone even find that much stuff that they want to listen to?
I dunno, I'm looking at winamp right now just to check how many days worth of music I have. About 35 right now (842 hours.) It's all full albums and stuff I want to listen to. I usually go on Direct Connect, find someone with a fast connection on my favorite hub, see if they have the same musical interest (hardcore, grindcore, heavy metal, punk) and download all their full albums. It's not fun organizing, renaming and re-tagging 13,101 files but it's nice having a massive collection of music for road trips (Alpine 6 CD MP3 compatible changer with the head unit, so that's 7 full MP3 CDs I can have.) It's all organized very nicely and most of my friends can just come over and name a song and chances are I have it.
I have 780GB total on my computer and if I was into maintstream music I'd have a much much larger MP3 collection (and much more hard drive space.) When stories like this one come out people ask "WHY! Why all this space!" Well when someone comes to a lan party and they've got a TB of hard drive space, and half of that is games, movies, porn, music, whatever you want, those people forget their question completely. I'd hate to have to keep changing CDs (or DVDs) to copy files to other people, which is why I just love having all the space I have. I'd deffinitely buy the 120 GB hard drive for my laptop (I only have a 40 right now and I have about 6 gigs free, most of the large files are from photos or apps and I've had to delete a lot of stuff or move it.)
How would you like it if every trip to the auto-mechanic you were chided for having certain tires, not using a particular brand/weight of motor oil, not being timely enough in getting a tune up, why didn't you change your own oil, your tire pressures too low?
Ok here's a scenario, I go to the mechanic and tell him "My engine has no power and heats up really quickly now." and he checks a few things, comes back and says "You have no oil." He'll put in some oil, tell me to check it every so often stuff like that. Now I go back to him with the same problem, he does the same thing. This happens about once a month for 4 months. Now being an average person and not knowing much about cars I think "Ok this mechanic is terrible, I shouldn't have to check my oil, my car does that automatically doesn't it?" He knows I'm probably thinking it, so you think the next time I visit him he's not going to be a little angry that I still haven't checked my oil ever and now I'm just wasting his time?
Personally, I change my own oil and rotate my tires and do all my own car work. I use synthetic fluids and I treat my car right. If I was going to someone for help with something though I'd listen to them the first time. Maybe I'd need to be told once more but after that if the problem repeats it won't be too hard to fix. I do that myself and I expect (and usually get that) from my customers. I have a lot of patience though I will never demean a customer even if I have to explain something 4 or 5 times (I've had to explain to a customer on the phone for 15 minutes that the F4 key was one key not two.) And in the end it's worth it, not getting any calls for a long time, and when you finally get a call from the same person it's not for something you've already fixed before.
If you haven't read "Mad Cowboy" I suggest you do. It highlights the dangers of not only eating cows, but of raising them as well. They are a major contributor of methane directly and once you add in the exhaust from hauling their food (16lbs of food per 1lb of cow), the exhaust from hauling them, and the extra emissions from the need to constantly refrigerate beef, you start to understand how inefficient eating beef really is. Instead, the bulk of the pollution controls fall on the consumer in the form of fuel additives, emissions for our cars, and taxes. Another chunk falls on industry. But who has ever heard of a rancher being fined for the emissions that he is responsible for?
I always thought meat and potatoes was quite efficient for keeping my body going. Please tell me a more efficient form of food than beef that'll give me an equal or greater amount of protein.
I'm sorry, but if a corporation, a server farm, or a website farted, I'd really want to read about it. I mean what does it smell like? What causes it? Does it make a loud noise? Inquiring minds want to know!
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(ok, almost any tool - it's kind of hard to abuse a Nerf bat - I know, I've tried).
Obviously you didn't take off the soft foam and beat a person with the hard plastic inside. And if it doesn't come off, just turn the bat around. The handle, even though it's usually covered in foam, is very solid.
Now this may not be a big deal considering Joe Dogooder is an upstanding citizen so he would have nothing to hide. John Cheatman is an altogether different story.
It's not a big deal, and most of us have nothing to hide that isn't already hidden, so what exactly is your point? John has been having an affair on his wife of 30 years, and he happens to be a millionaire. Wonder what he'd do if someone threw together a video portrait of his weekly (Thursday 7:00pm to be exact) sexcapade with his executive assistant. I wonder how much he'd be willing to pay to stop that from being exposed. Hell, one could make a fortune between him and his wife if they wanted.
Oh, so you're saying that the information can be used to obtain video of someone cheating on their wife? Well how about this, you shouldn't cheat on your wife? No? We should all be allowed to do that? Ok how about this... most people who are considering cheating on their wife, know not to use their EZ Pass, pay for everything in cash and keep no receipts. Also, I've driven in a ton of cars with onstar and they only start recording anything when you press that button, tracking information isn't recorded every time you get into the car, I can't call up onstar and ask them where my friend's car was yesterday at 5:30 (and neither can he.) Besides, a private investigator can just track a person all day, most people don't know when someone is tailing them (if the PI is good at what they do) and they can still video tape the whole thing.
Jack K. Politician is another upstanding guy. He's running for his local seat against Todd R. Hardstone who's known to pull of some dirty campaign tricks. Hardstone's team decided they were going all out this time leaving no digital trick undone. Forging email headers to make it seem as if Jack was sending out racist comments, creating all sorts of digital chaos. If you think it doesn't happen in government, think again. It's actually done with ease for those in the computer security field, and for anyone who would be willing to invest a few hours time learning the ropes. Aside from that, money talks, meaning someone can hire a "lone gunman" if you will to do the deeds for you.
So what exactly does forging e-mail headers have to do with anything else you mentioned about privacy? I see no relation at all so I'm just going to ignore that and pretend it wasn't mentioned.
Pretty boring writing so far you could say, surely it is, I mean people are all good hearted they would never do such a thing. Who would want to track someone like that. Well, did you know Choicepointclaims to have about 16 billion records on American citizens? 16 billion is a hell of a lot considering there are only about 300 million citizens, so average that out for yourself and ask yourself, what do they have on me?
Ok that's 53 records on average. They would have less information on me since I don't fill out little registration cards and all that, and I never give out real information. So my number would be much lower, but lets say that is 53. That could be anything, from my level of education, my job category, my name, address, phone number, all that stuff. Now if I wanted to find out what that stuff was I'd go here and make a request on my own personal info. Then I'd read it and go "Oh, that was very boring."
Where is the privacy you ask? You gave it away. No one else but you.
Well, not really, I'm sitting in my room right now, no one who isn't watching me knows what I am doing. No one has any idea what time I'm going to go to sleep. No one knows what I'm going to do tomorrow except for those people who will see me do it. So I have to ask you, when did I give away my privacy? Maybe you meant my sister. To let you know, she's the person who signs up for every supermarkets shoppers club cards, she fills out all those surveys o
So the judge doesn't think I have a right to decide what my child has access to?
Actually the judge does think you have a right to decide what your child has access to, the judge doesn't think you have a right to decide what MY child has access to.
The level of panic surrounding the Y2k bug should have made this clear to anyone. Far too many people (some of them policymakers) panicked at the thought of "global power outages" and, as Katrina showed, far too many were left stranded, unprepared, and unaided when a real disaster struck.
Ok, I think the victims of hurricane Katrina were affected by more than just power outages... I don't think that any of the people in the storm were concerned about their being no power to charge their laptops, blackberrys, and using their electric can openers as much as they were with the massive amounts of water flooding into their houses. Wait, now that I think about it more, I don't think any of the Katrina victims that were actually still around during the storm had laptops, blackberrys and electric can openers.
Think about it. Joe Consumer sees the Blu_ray at "The Wiz" or "Best Buy", and drools "Wow, what a sharp picture!!!". He buys the unit, takes it home, pops in a standard DVD on his standard TV set, and then wonders where all the extra resolution is.
No, he'll say "Wow I can't believe how amazing this looks" and he'll tell his family he got some brand new blu ray player for $500 and show them and they'll say "Wow it looks great!" and then he'll show a real videophile and they'll say "What the hell is wrong with you, you don't even have an HDTV..." or they'll just smile and say nothing knowing the guy is a moron. People will convince themselves what they're experiencing is the best image ever after they spend a ton of money on a blu ray player, and anyone who is aware that the image quality didn't change, will also be aware of the fact that they need a TV that supports the higher resolutions.
It's a model, it's supposed to look nice, and it does looks nice, it looks like a real engine. It has a lot of details that a real engine has. You're mostly paying for the plans since it took a while to design the whole model.
Did you even read the article? It's not meant to work on low resolution poorly compressed consumer grade pictures. It's more for raw images, and it says 8MP is too low and 16 is good, so that's just a handful of pro cameras and they all take raw images.
That says up through high school. I mean technically I was also a jock up through high school. Do I look like a jock? No. Do I have the sex life of a jock? Well... yeah, but not while I was a "jock" because while I was a jock, I didn't focus on JUST physical sports I focused on video games and sports were just some other thing I did to see how I liked it. A real jock is dedicated to sports like football and basketball and all that. He's dedicated to video games and just so happened to play those sports. And did you read this?
"I don't really have time to indulge in anything," said Wendel. "I'm so dedicated and so determined to be the best I don't have time to indulge in other stuff." To most people that says "24 year old virgin living in mother's basement." I used to be as dedicated to gaming as he was and I was very good at it, but then I started going out and just hanging out with people. I started to enjoy that more and more, and now video games are just something I might play 2 hours a week at most. If I could wake up tomorrow with his skill, but I had to be as dedicated as he was I'd turn down the offer, it's all about what you enjoy most in life. He enjoys being the best at everything and he seems to be the best at video games so he's going to continue that.
An athlete is someone who participates in sports. Sports are activities that require you to do something, have some skill, and there must be a defined ruleset. Usually they're competetive. Since playing computer games fit into the deffinition of a sport, Fatal1ty is an athlete and gaming is a sport. Just because it doesn't fit into your idea of sport, doesn't mean it's not a sport.
If you log on to AIM five months from now and a dozen bots auto-add themselves and immediatly start sending you ads to refinance your home or buys some herbal V| A GR @, then it might be more of a concern.
Yep, I might have to switch to a new IM service *gasp*. Or have all of my friend's join IRC.
Their actions don't have to be cool, their actions might make them a little more money, and bother most of their users. I can see most people who know how, deleting the two bots from their buddy list.
Think of it this way, if someone adds two bots to an IRC channel that you frequent, there's nothing you can do about it if it's their server (other than never join that channel again), these bots go away when you delete them from your buddy list.
I figured it was because NYC is such a massive city and has so much stuff going on. Isn't it also known as the financial capital of the world? Not because of zoning laws... would you care to explain what's so bad about houston?
Personally, I've lived in NYC my whole life (except a year when I lived in AZ.) If I had to choose, I'd probably choose Houston. It's a good sized city, so it won't be hard finding a lot of thing's I've gotten used to (except of course, pizza, and going to B&H for camera gear.) The roads are 100x better, the houses in the suburbs are laid out much nicer, it's warmer, cheaper cost of living.
Translation: I've got this mother fucking hog of a vehicle, and I want to come up with some outrageous bits of hyperbole to justify me still driving the vehicle that ultimately gives Middle Eastern despots control over my country, pollutes the atmosphere and is starting to make my pocket book and the overall economy crumble. Translation: I lack reading comprehension skills. A better translation of his post would have been: You shouldn't get bonuses on what you drive but on how you drive. If someone drives 100 miles a day in a hybrid they shouldn't get a bonus because they're polluting more, and using more gas, than someone driving an H2 Hummer 2 miles a day. Driving a hybrid just means someone will save money on gas, not reduce harmful emissions.
Or you can have excersize machines like they have on the ISS and force the astronauts to excersize a certain amount each day to keep themselves in shape.
How does one confuse a leopard with a puma, especially when the animal in question is not running, but lying dead in front of you? Or maybe they are talking about mysterious out-of-place big cats that alternate between two shapes :-?
I'm sorry but if I saw a big black leopard and a big black puma (and even a big black jaguar) in front of me, I would have no idea which one is which. I would think that for a hunter, it's about the same. And I would also think that since the only evidence they've got is a tail and a bad photograph, it's kind of hard to identify the animal.
Am I missing something or does the article say nothing about what the new technique was? And why only the Da Vinchi drawings were the only ones that could have lead to this discovery.
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I've got 2 computers with 6 hard drives, a refrigerator and a small pepsi machine, my room sounds like a wind tunnel and that's just the way I like it!
I've really never been bothered by the noise, it's very loud in my room and I'm just used to it. If it was silent in here I'd never be able to fall asleep because I'm just used to hearing that noise in the background and that always helps me sleep. Kind of like a wave machine or something, it's peacefull. Lets me know we still have power. If I wanted to make a silent PC I could probably do it pretty easily, water cooled and kept in a box (like a wooden box or a cabinet or something like that) with sufficient ventilation.
I hope you're not serious but...
I'll tell you who cares... my wife. She cares a lot about how much money I make. That's one reason she has sex with me. Money makes her feel comfortable and secure. So comfortable that she'll do anything to keep me around... and I mean anything. And, I like that.
So what you're saying is that your wife doesn't love you, but you make her feel comfortable and secure so she'll do anything to keep you around? And do you know poor people have sex too? Quite a bit more than rich people, I hear that's been going on for many many years. It has some thing to do with two people enjoying sex, coming together, liking each other, thinking the other person is attractive or whatever, and somehow they end up having sex. Money doesn't usually enter it unless the person is shallow and just looking for money, then it becomes important.
The parent was trying to say that if you can't enjoy your money, it's not worth having, obviously you have time to do things you want to do (like have sex with your wife, or whatever else you might do.) And your friend used his money to buy cigarettes and use them to bribe people. His point was that if you spend all your time working, then you'll have no time to enjoy the money you've earned.
The fine for anyone caught selling a "violent title" ( apparently defined by the bill as real or simulated graphic depictions of physical injuries or physical violence against parties who realistically appear to be human beings) to minors will initially be $5,000, and can go as high as $40,000 ...'"
So if a news story shows soldiers shooting their guns at a target, or if they show a video of a missle destroying a tank, do they get fined? Or is it because you can't see the people being killed, that it's fine? What if a man runs out of the tank on fire on a life news broadcast, will they then be fined since the person doens't just appear to be a human being, they actually are a human being, and they're really on fire. Does the news now then to pay a fine?
People around here upgrade there computers a lot (and by upgrade I mean throw out the old one and buy a new one) so I see a lot of old computers on the streets. I usually take them to see what I can salvage and almost 90% of the time there's data left on the drive.
The interesting thing is, my aunt who is beyond computer illiterate, had me come over and wipe her hard drives clean before she got rid of her old computers. I guess if you're someone used to destroying paper bills and information before you throw it out, you'll understand that it's important to destroy information on a computer before you throw it out as well.
This isn't a personal attack on you, but your post brings up something I've been wondering about recently: unless you rip your music at ultra-high sampling rates, 120 GB is from 41 to 83 days of music. Can anyone even find that much stuff that they want to listen to?
I dunno, I'm looking at winamp right now just to check how many days worth of music I have. About 35 right now (842 hours.) It's all full albums and stuff I want to listen to. I usually go on Direct Connect, find someone with a fast connection on my favorite hub, see if they have the same musical interest (hardcore, grindcore, heavy metal, punk) and download all their full albums. It's not fun organizing, renaming and re-tagging 13,101 files but it's nice having a massive collection of music for road trips (Alpine 6 CD MP3 compatible changer with the head unit, so that's 7 full MP3 CDs I can have.) It's all organized very nicely and most of my friends can just come over and name a song and chances are I have it.
I have 780GB total on my computer and if I was into maintstream music I'd have a much much larger MP3 collection (and much more hard drive space.) When stories like this one come out people ask "WHY! Why all this space!" Well when someone comes to a lan party and they've got a TB of hard drive space, and half of that is games, movies, porn, music, whatever you want, those people forget their question completely. I'd hate to have to keep changing CDs (or DVDs) to copy files to other people, which is why I just love having all the space I have. I'd deffinitely buy the 120 GB hard drive for my laptop (I only have a 40 right now and I have about 6 gigs free, most of the large files are from photos or apps and I've had to delete a lot of stuff or move it.)
How would you like it if every trip to the auto-mechanic you were chided for having certain tires, not using a particular brand/weight of motor oil, not being timely enough in getting a tune up, why didn't you change your own oil, your tire pressures too low?
Ok here's a scenario, I go to the mechanic and tell him "My engine has no power and heats up really quickly now." and he checks a few things, comes back and says "You have no oil." He'll put in some oil, tell me to check it every so often stuff like that. Now I go back to him with the same problem, he does the same thing. This happens about once a month for 4 months. Now being an average person and not knowing much about cars I think "Ok this mechanic is terrible, I shouldn't have to check my oil, my car does that automatically doesn't it?" He knows I'm probably thinking it, so you think the next time I visit him he's not going to be a little angry that I still haven't checked my oil ever and now I'm just wasting his time?
Personally, I change my own oil and rotate my tires and do all my own car work. I use synthetic fluids and I treat my car right. If I was going to someone for help with something though I'd listen to them the first time. Maybe I'd need to be told once more but after that if the problem repeats it won't be too hard to fix. I do that myself and I expect (and usually get that) from my customers. I have a lot of patience though I will never demean a customer even if I have to explain something 4 or 5 times (I've had to explain to a customer on the phone for 15 minutes that the F4 key was one key not two.) And in the end it's worth it, not getting any calls for a long time, and when you finally get a call from the same person it's not for something you've already fixed before.
If you haven't read "Mad Cowboy" I suggest you do. It highlights the dangers of not only eating cows, but of raising them as well. They are a major contributor of methane directly and once you add in the exhaust from hauling their food (16lbs of food per 1lb of cow), the exhaust from hauling them, and the extra emissions from the need to constantly refrigerate beef, you start to understand how inefficient eating beef really is. Instead, the bulk of the pollution controls fall on the consumer in the form of fuel additives, emissions for our cars, and taxes. Another chunk falls on industry. But who has ever heard of a rancher being fined for the emissions that he is responsible for?
I always thought meat and potatoes was quite efficient for keeping my body going. Please tell me a more efficient form of food than beef that'll give me an equal or greater amount of protein.
It's not that if Google farts, it makes headlines
I'm sorry, but if a corporation, a server farm, or a website farted, I'd really want to read about it. I mean what does it smell like? What causes it? Does it make a loud noise? Inquiring minds want to know!