The New Deal was not the last of the Constitution though. Alien and Sedition Acts were bad, as were many other things, but the death of the Constitution was in 1913, when Congress took away its own power to coin money and gave it to a private bank, as well as the introduction of the income tax and the end of Senators being elected by states
Pfui.
You both sound like you would be more comfortable with a hereditary House of Lords
---or is it the Corporate State of Microsoft?
The late nineteenth century Senate belonged to the Capitalists. The Silver Senators. The Senators for Sugar, Coal and Wheat, Copper and Steel.
The baronies of the Northern Pacific, the Pennsylvania Railroad.
two words: probable cause. search warrant. three words: contempt of court. obstruction of justice.
to the judge your laptop is just another lockbox: surrender the key or go to jail.
for no fixed term, but simply at the court's pleasure.
I seem to recall a lawsuit regarding Microsoft's predatory practices by making it financially difficult for vendors to sell any operations system other than Dos and Windows
Thw vendors crying all the way to the bank.
The MSDOS and Windows PC sold in numbers that no one had ever seen before. Microsoft had leverage because it had the full weight of the marketplace behind it.
It was a compelling platform because it was affordable. It was a compelling platform because it was versatile.
The PC for the shop room floor. The PC for the home.
Can someone explain this to me? How does violence and sex make something more mature?
It's a question worth asking. You look at a game like Fallout or Planescape: Torment. Rich in ideas. Fascinating setting. Not without humor or a sense of tragedy. To me, that is mature.
Even though there are times I want to shut down all higher brain functions for a quick game of Bikini Beach Deathmatch Nude Teenage Volleyball: The Game of the Year Edition.
The sniper does not reveal his position until he has his assigned target. He may not get a second chance. The robot may have him pegged before it falls. The robot he sees may simply be the bait. The cheap mass-produced decoy.
You don't drop a 500 lb bomb on the sniper, you light him up like a Christmas tree and shoot him in the head with a 50 cent bullet.
For the civilian in Iraq, it's safe to assume that someone wants your head. Uniforms mean nothing. The sniper is everyone's enemy and there is no real downside to taking him out.
...the solution for these people who want to run a business like this is to never go to or trade within America. Ever.
The rule from Day One. Do you think the traders that clustered around the Caribbean and Central America in the Civil War ever rode a blockade runner into Charleston or New Orleans?
You could grow rich in that game and never get closer to the waters than the beach at Brighton.
it doesn't seem that they broke the laws while in the United States. US citizens and banks did, the service was even based outside the US.
This is the Kazaa defense. The Allofmp3.com defense.
It doesn't matter where the casino is based. It matters that the casino was being marketed to customers in the U.S. It matters that the casino was accepting payments from U.S. accounts.
If you have assets in the states that can be seized, they will be seized. If you have people in the states who can be arrested, they will be arrested.
These are the ground rules when you set up shop off-shore.
I have to admit that if they play this right, they will be able to sell minimalistic versions of their OS (or pass them out in magazines and newspapers) just to get things started.
In two weeks, Vista will become the default OEM Windows install.
In two weeks, holiday buyers will begin redeeming all those free upgrade coupons. Vista doesn't need a jump-start.
Then, if people want more functionality, say to burn a CD/DVD or whatever, they pay for it incrementally. It would make the OS feel more affordable.
You can't get more affordable than OEM Windows. Which is why OEM Linux disappears from Walmart.com.
Retail boxed, Ultimate is $250 at Amazon.com. $50/year, assuming a five-year life-span in the home market. The price of a single PC game or two replacement inkjet cartridges.
you could just activate the individual features you are interested in, rather than have to buy say vista ultimate just to get one feature you need that happens only to be in ultimate.
Too complex for a mass market distribution.
Ultimate seems to target the professional who needs a secure, high-performance, home office machine, but also enjoys media and gaming. Someone who would be inclined to spring for the whole package, anyway.
Now we actually HAVE a Columbine simulator and he's gonna sit there and thumb his ass?
Oh wait, that's right, it's not a Rockstar game. Doesn't matter if the hot coffee company isn't involved.
Thompson doesn't have to do anything. He can simply let the Washington Post and the title "Super Columbine RPG" do the job for him.
I think it is fair to suggest that "Bully" is not the same game it would have been had Take Two and Rockstar had not been badly burnt by Hot Coffee.
I imagine that the problem is the context of the Violence/Killing
In the war game, the focus is on grand strategy or the dynamics of small unit combat.
The stealth shooter (Rogue Spear or SWAT) exposes something of the moral ambiguities of the sniper's role, the discipline needed to maintain rules of engagement.
The genre demands a realistic treatment of the environment, the player's actions and consequences. It should be a wrenching experience when an innocent dies because you made a rookie's mistake.
The Zelda-like graphics and animation of Columbine risk looking superficial and exploitive in comparison.
But the fundamental and intractable problem is that the game reduces to the hunting down and murder of defenseless kids. The player enters the game too late to affect the outcome. He can only experience the thrill of the kill.
Indie game designers, here's an idea: Write that hot new game for Linux and release it as a bootable LiveCD
tell me why as a gamer I want to turn my dual core PC into an XBox Live arcade console.
tell me why as an indie developer I shouldn't be programming in XNA for both the XBox 360 and Windows platforms.
tell me why I want to spend my hard earned money stamping out disks, programming flash ROM and packaging a product that will be buried at retail beneath Madden and The Sims.
tell me how I sell the LiveCD in a market that is moving to online distribution. the hard disk install that launches from a desktop icon.
Personally, I suspect that 8 Million users will upgrade to Burning Crusade within weeks/months whereas few will move towards Windows Vista because Burning Crusade has added value.
In two weeks, Windows Vista will become the default OEM install on about 95% of the PCs sold in the English-speaking world.
The Vista Ultimate Upgrade, retail boxed, is $250 at Amazon.com and #13 in software sales.
Microsoft will throw in two licenses for Vista Premium for another $100.
In September, we should be seeing the first products based on Windows Home Server.
You could spend years mining the backlist of MSDOS and Windows titles that will run and run well under Vista. (with a little persuasion, perhaps) The PC as a gaming platform isn't going away anytime soon.
I feel so misunderstood sometimes. What makes me sad is that they don't see the use of a clear straight-to-the-point format. Maybe only geeks can be horrified by this one.
The user cares only for the document he sees in print or on screen. The internal structure of the file
interests him not at all.
in the mid 1800s, it was customary for the usa to give the finger to european copyright laws and publish any book they wanted to, without any royalties sent to the old world
which meant that american authors rarely made it into print.
on the streets of hong kong you can still buy $10,000 worth of software bundled on a CD/ DVD for $3
and so the domestic product withers on the vine while the West outsources research and development to China.
I thought that MS was the only company that could so effortlessly shoot themselves in the feet. Parental monitoring should pretty much put an end to much of the MySpace userbase.
It is a fair trade-off if it keeps MySpace out of the headlines and out of court:
They should just implement some kind of gun control. Yeah, that's the ticket; keep guns out of the hands of kids. Oh wait...
[T]he United States has the highest rates of childhood homicide, suicide, and firearm-related death among industrialized countries.... The firearm-related homicide rate in the United States was nearly 16 times higher than that in all of the other countries combined (0.94 compared with 0.06); the firearm-related suicide rate was nearly 11 times higher (0.32 compared with 0.03); and the unintentional firearm-related death rate was nine times higher (0.36 compared with 0.04) Rates of Homicide, Suicide, and Firearm-Related Death Among Children -- 26 Industrialized Countries (1990-1995)
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Where firearms are tightly regulated, firearms are insignificant as a cause of death among children.
The way districting currently is set up rigs House votes in favor of urban, populated areas. Using my own home state (SD) as an example, the ideal would be to give one representative to the two main population centers in the state each, and then two more for the more rural areas of the state - one for west of the Missouri; the other for east of it. This is more in line with the intent of our founding fathers.
Representation in the House has always been based on population.
That is why money bills must originate in the House. (Think of it as The Commons) Each state gets a minimum of one Congressman. Representation in the Senate is by state, two senators per state, elected at large. There has never been such a thing as a senatorial "district."
That is how the game has been played for over two hundred years.
And no, I'm sorry, I can't recall what legislation or governmental change it was which resulted in the marginalization of the House and the electoral college, but there was one (iirc it was at about the time of the civil war/war between the states/war of northern agression
The Electoral College became problematical as early as 1800 with the tie vote that tossed the choice between Aaron Burr and Thomas Jefferson to The House of Representatives. (where it took 36 gut-wrenching roll calls to reach a decision) and with the "Corrupt Bargain" of 1824 that ended with John Quincy Adams in the White House and Henry Clay as Secretary of State.
and I would say you need to give nore thought to the meaning of the word "neutral." hatred is still blinding no matter how widely it is spread.
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Copyright is an arbitrary ARTIFICIAL law -- whose time has come and past. Why is illegal? Because the government says so; and who creates the government? The people, and the people clearely are showing that it's an archaic hold-over when information was a scarce commodity.
The people made J.K. Rowling richer than the Queen of England. The people paid damn near a half-billion dollars for tickets to see Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
The people are buying the DVD in similiar numbers.
The Geek could stand a touch more humility when he claims to know what "the people" want.
There are perhaps a half-dozen studios world-wide that have demonstrated they can finance and produce theatrical animation at the Pixar level.
It takes about five years, $100 million dollars, and the labor of four hundred people to bring a project like The Incredibles to completion. That, to my mind, is a fair definition of scarcity.
The Geek never sees the distinction between production and distribution, the original and the copy.
This is a story we've heard before with other sites, only serving to further demonstrate that playing wack a mole with torrent aggregators isn't the solution to anything.
In the fantasy world of Slashdot world every site that goes down reveals the light at the end of the tunnel. Meanwhile, the righta agencies gain experience and precedent, so that each take-down comes easier than the one before.
As these stories grow they continue to be seen as the greedy bullies they truly are. The main purpose of the RIAA and MPAA these days is to do the dirty work for the actual labels/studios and absorb the backlash. People get mad at the RIAA, not Sony. Or so the strategy goes. As anti-RIAA and anti-MPAA sentiment grows in severity and spreads into the mainstream, there will start to be bleedthrough to the actual labels and studios.
These stories make headlines on Slashdot.
Elsewhere they get less coverage than the filling of the pothole at Third and Main.
How many parents know the title of the last Harry Potter novel, how many have it on pre-order? More than have heard of IaoHunt. When Amazon publishes its holiday list of DVD favorites, the Top 100 Bestsellers. which studios do you think dominate the list?
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Pfui.
You both sound like you would be more comfortable with a hereditary House of Lords
---or is it the Corporate State of Microsoft?
The late nineteenth century Senate belonged to the Capitalists. The Silver Senators. The Senators for Sugar, Coal and Wheat, Copper and Steel. The baronies of the Northern Pacific, the Pennsylvania Railroad.
two words: probable cause. search warrant. three words: contempt of court. obstruction of justice. to the judge your laptop is just another lockbox: surrender the key or go to jail.
for no fixed term, but simply at the court's pleasure.
what matters to your guys arrested in the states is what a U.S. court will think is a legitimate business.
and what damage will that same storm do to your solar panels?
gale force winds, driving rain, sleet and snow? which is what I see now, looking out the window.
Thw vendors crying all the way to the bank.
The MSDOS and Windows PC sold in numbers that no one had ever seen before. Microsoft had leverage because it had the full weight of the marketplace behind it.
It was a compelling platform because it was affordable. It was a compelling platform because it was versatile.
The PC for the shop room floor. The PC for the home.
It's a question worth asking. You look at a game like Fallout or Planescape: Torment. Rich in ideas. Fascinating setting. Not without humor or a sense of tragedy. To me, that is mature.
Even though there are times I want to shut down all higher brain functions for a quick game of Bikini Beach Deathmatch Nude Teenage Volleyball: The Game of the Year Edition.
The sniper does not reveal his position until he has his assigned target. He may not get a second chance. The robot may have him pegged before it falls. The robot he sees may simply be the bait. The cheap mass-produced decoy.
For the civilian in Iraq, it's safe to assume that someone wants your head.
Uniforms mean nothing. The sniper is everyone's enemy and there is no real downside to taking him out.
The rule from Day One. Do you think the traders that clustered around the Caribbean and Central America in the Civil War ever rode a blockade runner into Charleston or New Orleans?
You could grow rich in that game and never get closer to the waters than the beach at Brighton.
The shareholder is not immunized from criminal charges stemming from his own actions. You can be a stakeholder. You can also be the CEO.
This is the Kazaa defense. The Allofmp3.com defense.
It doesn't matter where the casino is based. It matters that the casino was being marketed to customers in the U.S. It matters that the casino was accepting payments from U.S. accounts.
If you have assets in the states that can be seized, they will be seized. If you have people in the states who can be arrested, they will be arrested.
These are the ground rules when you set up shop off-shore.
In two weeks, Vista will become the default OEM Windows install.
In two weeks, holiday buyers will begin redeeming all those free upgrade coupons. Vista doesn't need a jump-start.
Then, if people want more functionality, say to burn a CD/DVD or whatever, they pay for it incrementally. It would make the OS feel more affordable.
You can't get more affordable than OEM Windows. Which is why OEM Linux disappears from Walmart.com.
Retail boxed, Ultimate is $250 at Amazon.com. $50/year, assuming a five-year life-span in the home market. The price of a single PC game or two replacement inkjet cartridges.
No one gives a damn about the "Microsoft Tax."
Too complex for a mass market distribution.
Ultimate seems to target the professional who needs a secure, high-performance, home office machine, but also enjoys media and gaming. Someone who would be inclined to spring for the whole package, anyway.
Oh wait, that's right, it's not a Rockstar game. Doesn't matter if the hot coffee company isn't involved.
Thompson doesn't have to do anything. He can simply let the Washington Post and the title "Super Columbine RPG" do the job for him.
I think it is fair to suggest that "Bully" is not the same game it would have been had Take Two and Rockstar had not been badly burnt by Hot Coffee.
In the war game, the focus is on grand strategy or the dynamics of small unit combat.
The stealth shooter (Rogue Spear or SWAT) exposes something of the moral ambiguities of the sniper's role, the discipline needed to maintain rules of engagement.
The genre demands a realistic treatment of the environment, the player's actions and consequences. It should be a wrenching experience when an innocent dies because you made a rookie's mistake.
The Zelda-like graphics and animation of Columbine risk looking superficial and exploitive in comparison.
But the fundamental and intractable problem is that the game reduces to the hunting down and murder of defenseless kids. The player enters the game too late to affect the outcome. He can only experience the thrill of the kill.
tell me why as a gamer I want to turn my dual core PC into an XBox Live arcade console.
tell me why as an indie developer I shouldn't be programming in XNA for both the XBox 360 and Windows platforms.
tell me why I want to spend my hard earned money stamping out disks, programming flash ROM and packaging a product that will be buried at retail beneath Madden and The Sims.
tell me how I sell the LiveCD in a market that is moving to online distribution. the hard disk install that launches from a desktop icon.
In two weeks, Windows Vista will become the default OEM install on about 95% of the PCs sold in the English-speaking world.
The Vista Ultimate Upgrade, retail boxed, is $250 at Amazon.com and #13 in software sales.
Microsoft will throw in two licenses for Vista Premium for another $100.
In September, we should be seeing the first products based on Windows Home Server.
You could spend years mining the backlist of MSDOS and Windows titles that will run and run well under Vista. (with a little persuasion, perhaps) The PC as a gaming platform isn't going away anytime soon.
The user cares only for the document he sees in print or on screen. The internal structure of the file interests him not at all.
which meant that american authors rarely made it into print.
on the streets of hong kong you can still buy $10,000 worth of software bundled on a CD/ DVD for $3
and so the domestic product withers on the vine while the West outsources research and development to China.
It is a fair trade-off if it keeps MySpace out of the headlines and out of court:
Officers Lose Jobs After Contacting Teen Using MySpace (January 18), ,MySpace, News Corp., Sued by Families Whose Daughters Were Assaulted (January 18), Teens Arrested In Girl's Beating Shown Online (January 17)
[T]he United States has the highest rates of childhood homicide, suicide, and firearm-related death among industrialized countries. ... The firearm-related homicide rate in the United States was nearly 16 times higher than that in all of the other countries combined (0.94 compared with 0.06); the firearm-related suicide rate was nearly 11 times higher (0.32 compared with 0.03); and the unintentional firearm-related death rate was nine times higher (0.36 compared with 0.04) Rates of Homicide, Suicide, and Firearm-Related Death Among Children -- 26 Industrialized Countries (1990-1995)
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Where firearms are tightly regulated, firearms are insignificant as a cause of death among children.
The population of South Dakota is 776,000. (2205) South Dakota Quick Facts From The U.S. Census Bureau The typical Congressional district has a population of 690,000. (2006) United States House of Representatives
Representation in the House has always been based on population.
That is why money bills must originate in the House. (Think of it as The Commons) Each state gets a minimum of one Congressman. Representation in the Senate is by state, two senators per state, elected at large. There has never been such a thing as a senatorial "district."
That is how the game has been played for over two hundred years.
And no, I'm sorry, I can't recall what legislation or governmental change it was which resulted in the marginalization of the House and the electoral college, but there was one (iirc it was at about the time of the civil war/war between the states/war of northern agression
The Electoral College became problematical as early as 1800 with the tie vote that tossed the choice between Aaron Burr and Thomas Jefferson to The House of Representatives. (where it took 36 gut-wrenching roll calls to reach a decision) and with the "Corrupt Bargain" of 1824 that ended with John Quincy Adams in the White House and Henry Clay as Secretary of State.
and I would say you need to give nore thought to the meaning of the word "neutral." hatred is still blinding no matter how widely it is spread.
The people made J.K. Rowling richer than the Queen of England. The people paid damn near a half-billion dollars for tickets to see Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
The people are buying the DVD in similiar numbers.
The Geek could stand a touch more humility when he claims to know what "the people" want.
There are perhaps a half-dozen studios world-wide that have demonstrated they can finance and produce theatrical animation at the Pixar level. It takes about five years, $100 million dollars, and the labor of four hundred people to bring a project like The Incredibles to completion. That, to my mind, is a fair definition of scarcity.
The Geek never sees the distinction between production and distribution, the original and the copy.
In the fantasy world of Slashdot world every site that goes down reveals the light at the end of the tunnel.
Meanwhile, the righta agencies gain experience and precedent, so that each take-down comes easier than the one before.
As these stories grow they continue to be seen as the greedy bullies they truly are. The main purpose of the RIAA and MPAA these days is to do the dirty work for the actual labels/studios and absorb the backlash. People get mad at the RIAA, not Sony. Or so the strategy goes. As anti-RIAA and anti-MPAA sentiment grows in severity and spreads into the mainstream, there will start to be bleedthrough to the actual labels and studios.
These stories make headlines on Slashdot.
Elsewhere they get less coverage than the filling of the pothole at Third and Main.
How many parents know the title of the last Harry Potter novel, how many have it on pre-order? More than have heard of IaoHunt. When Amazon publishes its holiday list of DVD favorites, the Top 100 Bestsellers. which studios do you think dominate the list?