So they want Google to check every website that shows up in their searches, and make sure a law isn't being broken somewhere, there's no illegal copywrite infringement, ect.?
Thats like requesting the United Postal Service to check every single package to make sure nobody is mailing love letters to anyone other then their husbands/wives. You could do it, with enough money and willpower, MAYBE, but its not excatly their responsibility.
For those of you who dont know, Thac0 is the number your character must roll in a 20 sided dice to hit an Armor Class (AC) of 0.
If your AC is 5, and my Thaco is 15, I need to roll a 10 or better (15-5). If your AC is -5, I need to roll a 20 (15-(-5)). 20 always hits, 1 always misses.
Personally, yeah, i'd consider that a good foundation.:P
A Game built around Math, paper, and your imagination inspired the development of other games.
I've been a long time player of D&D type games, and I personally think they should be done in school. They helped me in school early on learning Math, giving me a solid foundation to build on. Story writing being the DM of such a game gets developed quite well if you're sucessfull anyway.
But the most important part is it spurs your imagination into high gear. Something that alot of people, old and young, are lacking more and more. Its nerdy as hell, but its fun to pretend to be that strong warrior loping the head of an orc off.
Clearly this attack was started by a terrorist radio station. Heck of a marketing ploy, that one! Quick! Where is LIG FM?! I believe i've seen things like this before.
If stuff like this doesn't bother you, thats fine. It really should, as things like this tend to escilate further and further from reality untill you get companies nailing people on really obscure stuff, and trampling over your rights like they were never there.
The fact that they pulled something they dont own under some over-hyped copywright law, should piss you off. Damages or no, not everything is money. It doesn't cost me anything to speak my views on the street. If someone stops me from doing that, just because it didn't cost me anything, doesn't make doing so right.
This, also, I agree with. They had plenty of time, and used a loop hole to track him without going to a judge to get a warrent. Shooting 5 people and speeding off in a car warrents persuit by an officer, and if you can get a GPS device on the car thats fine, that makes sense. Sneeking into some guys yard and putting a GPS device on his car to track his movements for several weeks before arresting him without getting a warrent, is a completly diffrent situation.
Let's say if the cops see a stolen car making its way through heavy traffic and they can't safely chase it
That makes sense. They're tracking the car.
The police in this case were using the GPS to track the person, through the car. The car itself wasn't at issue. Thats where this all falls apart. If the car was stolen, then they have an argument.
Any votes submitted that cannot be read, can then be linked to the person who voted it, and our crack team of specalists can track them down and beat a vote out of them.
I mean, you mispelled Bush as Gore for gods sake, how do you make a mistake like that? Silly people.
Joe Public does not have the training to understand what he has, or what he needs to cure it. Half of the medications they market like this solve issues that shouldn't be an issue to begin with, but are becasue of bad health choices. Overall, it seems like they go out of their way to not state anything of any importance in these ads.
Its always some older, fit guy walking through a forest, or up a mountian, or over a desert. Its always some beautiful vista with chirping birds and sunsets. Ocean waves and soft rain.
It never says anything about the damn drug, it wont advise you of the side effects in a way that you'd actually grasp what it could do, it never identifies how to diagnose whatever it is it is supposed to cure other then some really vague term "Do you wake up at night? Do your legs feel weird, like they need to move? Does your wife seem unhappy?"
Price is never in a commercial of this sort, they dont present other options, they only tell you to ask your doctor about their product. thats it. Ask about viagra, cialis, caduet, whatever. Bug him with 10,000 drugs you dont want or need, in the hopes a few are sold.
Fantastic. Im overdue for a midlife crisis. This hardly seems fair, how do I wig out, buy a sports car and divorce my wife, when im young, unmarried, and so broke I cant even afford the junker im driving now?
Stupid early midlife crisis. Takes all the fun out of life. Twice!
the teacher tried to tell us how an ip address is exactly like a phone number, and would not hear how its not really that much like a phone number more like a street address.... he said I was crazy
You ARE crazy. How the hell do you fit a street address through a tube? Dont you know anything about the internet?
Every time they pass a law, an angel is sued for infringing on a copywrite held by a 32 year old greasy haired man living in his mothers basement that constitutes his right to selling "Appendages applied to the spinal collum to achieve flight through pressure differential due to an Asymmetrical designed 'wing' developed over the internet so its a new idea"
On another, slightly more serious note... how is it that MySpace is responsible for people putting their vital information up on teh intarwebs, but McDonalds isn't responsible for people getting unhealthy, sick, and dying-earlier-than-they-should from their food? (The "Cheeseburger Bill")
Myspace doesn't have as many lobbyists as McDonals.
Also, McDonalds lobbyists are really REALLY huge, and when I say huge I mean big-mac huge, and squish all the smaller lobbyists. The only ones who escape are small enough to fit between the folds of blubber on the McDonald lobbyists. That or they work the the oil companies and are really hard to get a good grip on, the slimy bastards.
While its true that microsoft owns an OS that is well known to be easily abused, to hold them responsible with a class action lawsuit will only do one thing. End computers.
If someone could hold you responsible for any flaw in your code that could be abused to render a machine part of a bot net, who in their right mind would EVER write an OS for a computer? honestly?
There are other solutions, and lawsuits should be a Final option, not the first.
Do these people's opinions really matter? It seems like they speak with 10,000 analysts, get 40,000 diffrent answers, and when one is correct (suprise suprise) they tout it as some achievement, beacuse they guessed the right number.
Who cares who wins in 2007? I sure dont. If you like Wii, you'll go Wii. if you like PS3, guess what, you'll go PS3. Xbox? Do a little dance and make a 360!
The only true winner is the consumer, because they have a choice, IMHO. Analyze that.
How much could they possibly fix this quick in an OS as monolithic as Vista? not much is my guess. Its more of a combover for people who dont want to get burned like they did with XP when it first released.
Its XP that really made people realize how horribly buggy software could be on release. How many corporate offices wont upgrade software to something untill after a particular period of proven reliabilty on the market now? My guess is quite a bit more since XP.
And how many of those set the requiremnt to be after X number of major upgrades? A Service Pack would qualify to most people as fairly major.
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So they want Google to check every website that shows up in their searches, and make sure a law isn't being broken somewhere, there's no illegal copywrite infringement, ect.?
Thats like requesting the United Postal Service to check every single package to make sure nobody is mailing love letters to anyone other then their husbands/wives. You could do it, with enough money and willpower, MAYBE, but its not excatly their responsibility.
Yeah, Thac0 is rather complicated.
:P
For those of you who dont know, Thac0 is the number your character must roll in a 20 sided dice to hit an Armor Class (AC) of 0.
If your AC is 5, and my Thaco is 15, I need to roll a 10 or better (15-5). If your AC is -5, I need to roll a 20 (15-(-5)). 20 always hits, 1 always misses.
Personally, yeah, i'd consider that a good foundation.
A Game built around Math, paper, and your imagination inspired the development of other games.
I've been a long time player of D&D type games, and I personally think they should be done in school. They helped me in school early on learning Math, giving me a solid foundation to build on. Story writing being the DM of such a game gets developed quite well if you're sucessfull anyway.
But the most important part is it spurs your imagination into high gear. Something that alot of people, old and young, are lacking more and more. Its nerdy as hell, but its fun to pretend to be that strong warrior loping the head of an orc off.
OW my eye!
F, I, M, G, and L?
Hmm...
LIG FM.
Clearly this attack was started by a terrorist radio station. Heck of a marketing ploy, that one! Quick! Where is LIG FM?! I believe i've seen things like this before.
If stuff like this doesn't bother you, thats fine. It really should, as things like this tend to escilate further and further from reality untill you get companies nailing people on really obscure stuff, and trampling over your rights like they were never there.
The fact that they pulled something they dont own under some over-hyped copywright law, should piss you off. Damages or no, not everything is money. It doesn't cost me anything to speak my views on the street. If someone stops me from doing that, just because it didn't cost me anything, doesn't make doing so right.
Brain: Are you thinking what im thinking?
!
Pinky: I think so brain, but Vista locked up and we lost all the missle launch keys we stole from the NSA.
Brain: GGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTEEEESSSS
You have the ability to make the following happy:
Stockholders
Customers
Broadcasters
Pick 2.
Sound familiar?
Correct me if im wrong, but isn't the hope that you do keep it?
I mean..if you leave it say, on a log, floating down a river, its hard to track you, right?
This, also, I agree with. They had plenty of time, and used a loop hole to track him without going to a judge to get a warrent. Shooting 5 people and speeding off in a car warrents persuit by an officer, and if you can get a GPS device on the car thats fine, that makes sense. Sneeking into some guys yard and putting a GPS device on his car to track his movements for several weeks before arresting him without getting a warrent, is a completly diffrent situation.
That makes sense. They're tracking the car.
The police in this case were using the GPS to track the person, through the car. The car itself wasn't at issue. Thats where this all falls apart. If the car was stolen, then they have an argument.
I like this idea.
Any votes submitted that cannot be read, can then be linked to the person who voted it, and our crack team of specalists can track them down and beat a vote out of them.
I mean, you mispelled Bush as Gore for gods sake, how do you make a mistake like that? Silly people.
thats sorta depressing. If I pay for something, and it requires a key to activate it, and you fail to give me that key, you're ripping me off.
Known issue or not, get them working keys!
I find these kind of ads to be downright scarry.
Joe Public does not have the training to understand what he has, or what he needs to cure it. Half of the medications they market like this solve issues that shouldn't be an issue to begin with, but are becasue of bad health choices. Overall, it seems like they go out of their way to not state anything of any importance in these ads.
Its always some older, fit guy walking through a forest, or up a mountian, or over a desert. Its always some beautiful vista with chirping birds and sunsets. Ocean waves and soft rain.
It never says anything about the damn drug, it wont advise you of the side effects in a way that you'd actually grasp what it could do, it never identifies how to diagnose whatever it is it is supposed to cure other then some really vague term "Do you wake up at night? Do your legs feel weird, like they need to move? Does your wife seem unhappy?"
Price is never in a commercial of this sort, they dont present other options, they only tell you to ask your doctor about their product. thats it. Ask about viagra, cialis, caduet, whatever. Bug him with 10,000 drugs you dont want or need, in the hopes a few are sold.
Aww crap, 25?
Fantastic. Im overdue for a midlife crisis. This hardly seems fair, how do I wig out, buy a sports car and divorce my wife, when im young, unmarried, and so broke I cant even afford the junker im driving now?
Stupid early midlife crisis. Takes all the fun out of life. Twice!
Then get angry at the police!
The cartoon network did something I find rather funny. The police did something I find rather disturbing. Not a hard call.
You ARE crazy. How the hell do you fit a street address through a tube? Dont you know anything about the internet?
Geez, kids these days!
Every time they pass a law, an angel is sued for infringing on a copywrite held by a 32 year old greasy haired man living in his mothers basement that constitutes his right to selling "Appendages applied to the spinal collum to achieve flight through pressure differential due to an Asymmetrical designed 'wing' developed over the internet so its a new idea"
US Patent #4495814-34422A.556923.
One does not use a lense to capture a soul.
One uses a crystal.
Be afrade, be very afrade!
Intel developed a time travel device and sent a robot back in time to steal the plans from IBM.
And they tried to kill Bill Gate's mother, but you'd be suprised how difficult that was.
You'd think 640 rounds of ammo would be enough to kill anybody.
Myspace doesn't have as many lobbyists as McDonals.
Also, McDonalds lobbyists are really REALLY huge, and when I say huge I mean big-mac huge, and squish all the smaller lobbyists. The only ones who escape are small enough to fit between the folds of blubber on the McDonald lobbyists. That or they work the the oil companies and are really hard to get a good grip on, the slimy bastards.
Thus Democrazy was born.
Dear lord I hope not.
While its true that microsoft owns an OS that is well known to be easily abused, to hold them responsible with a class action lawsuit will only do one thing. End computers.
If someone could hold you responsible for any flaw in your code that could be abused to render a machine part of a bot net, who in their right mind would EVER write an OS for a computer? honestly?
There are other solutions, and lawsuits should be a Final option, not the first.
Do these people's opinions really matter? It seems like they speak with 10,000 analysts, get 40,000 diffrent answers, and when one is correct (suprise suprise) they tout it as some achievement, beacuse they guessed the right number.
Who cares who wins in 2007? I sure dont. If you like Wii, you'll go Wii. if you like PS3, guess what, you'll go PS3. Xbox? Do a little dance and make a 360!
The only true winner is the consumer, because they have a choice, IMHO. Analyze that.
Excatly my point.
How much could they possibly fix this quick in an OS as monolithic as Vista? not much is my guess. Its more of a combover for people who dont want to get burned like they did with XP when it first released.
Its XP that really made people realize how horribly buggy software could be on release. How many corporate offices wont upgrade software to something untill after a particular period of proven reliabilty on the market now? My guess is quite a bit more since XP.
And how many of those set the requiremnt to be after X number of major upgrades? A Service Pack would qualify to most people as fairly major.
Seems to me they're releasing a Service Pack pretty quick for an OS.
"I think i'll wait till they relase SP1 for Vista before I upgrade"
better wait for SP2!