Its so nice to see that the sse2 results were used instead of the raw x87 scores for the intel p4 cored chips http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20041221/images/ch art_007.png
Arguments from quality do not require scientific studies to be valid. A's spirit is more noble than B's spirit is a proposition of value, not a prop of fact, which would need hard evidence to support it. However, from your demeanor, it would appear that you prefer to have the government hobble things in order to make them better. Go you!
And I find it interesting that your two countries are France and Germany. Germany does have a basic guarentee of freedom of speech in its national laws, and the European Convention on Human Rights guarentees freedom of speech in the EU, which France and Germany are both members.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech
There is a difference between working and working well. A communication medium is cheapened if its subject matter is artificially cut. Now dont tou go and try to compare broadcast television and the internet as analogous. They are massively different. There is a pressing need for standards and practices in broadcast television as children are/were able to achieve unfettered access to it with just an arrow key until the advent of the V chip. The internet is not so simple to use, and has a limited child safety factor inherent in its design. Kids can stumble on television porn, but the odds of them actively entering a dns for porn was quite low.
Freedom of Speech is not just limited to the USA either. It has a strong tradition in most nations influenced by English common law. Just because some countries that you consider "western" dont officially protect speech, there would be repercussions in most western nations if such freedom was curtailed. A freedom does not have to be written in stone to exist in a nation.
Last time I checked "information and communication" both required freedom of the press and freedom of speech, unless you want some poor, shoddy substitutes for "information and communication".
In sphere pvp there were defenses. Magery was the most important tool in anyones arsenal. Anyone with over 40 magery could recall to a rune marked in a guarded area if they were attacked, and using line of sight casting you could evade most offensive spells by staying out of LOS. I am not a troll, I am speaking from experience on one type of emulation program of UO. People who dont like pvp should go play on servers that enforce strict rping, and hope they reject applications of people who propose to play the role of sociopathic criminals. I mainly hunted monsters for money, and usually only killed people hunting where I was (if it was a good place to get cash), or miners so I could get good tournament armor using their ore and a friend of mine who was a gm miner and gm smith. I was only a criminal when its benifits outweighed its costs.
Griefers, as you call them, are players who bring a bit of reality to games. The rule of law is not supreme everywhere, and it never will be. Venture out unprotected at your own peril. This goes for real life as well in less civilized places.
I would have to say that pvp is part of the game. If you dont like it, dont play games that allow you to die. Dont go offline in unprotected areas, and learn how to defend yourself.
Your death is a result of your own stupidity if you are an even match for your attacker, if not then you should have run as soon as you saw red.
You mean quad socket boards dont make good workstations, dont you, as a dual socket board with 2x dual processor core chips would technically be 4 processors...
Actually, some games are actually cpu limited even with old geforce 2's. Day of Defeat and Natural Selection (HL1 mods) used to get low fps for me with an old 1.2GHz tbird. I upgraded to a 2600+ and my fps maxed out on DoD (vysnc=on). Natural Selection would still go down into the 40's at times, and even upgrading my geforce2 to a geforce6800 didnt prevent that. Sure, I can get 8500 3dmarks in 3dmark03build340, but I cant get constant 60 fps in Natural selection... CPU is more important in most games than many people give it credit for.
Ok, I'll bite.
The situation is not analogous. Capitalism does not require the goodwill of mankind to work. As a matter of fact it relies on mankinds inner selfishness to work. Humanity is selfish. Selfishness leads to violence in struggles over resources. Protection against the worst forms of violence is desirable both for pragmatic reasons (less risk) and reasons of principle (we do not necessarily have to use nuclear weapons, even if they are used against us).
You poor misguided idealist. Nuclear proliferation is a reality, as is long range missile tech proliferation. All you need is one stolen, hacked nuke to cause a shitload of trouble, and potentially start WW3.
I have never seen the this shower because I live in a northerly climate that isnt hospitable to astronomy most of the time. Will it be worth the 5 hour trip south?
HL2:DM has been released in a patch, just like I predicted. You can enjoy crushing your enemies with objects lauched by your ZPG. The crowbar isnt a default weapon though,:-/
The actual fighting of wars are not ideologically driven. Whoever has the best tech, most resources, and best soldiers usually wins. Ideology that started the war has very little effect on its outcome. Soldiers are pawns, and wishing them death is a cruel and horrible thing. Anything that we can do to reduce the risks our soldiers take, and at the same time inflict maximum casualties on our enemies is a good thing.
Someone doesnt understand the importance of seperate clauses within amendments...
If little Billy shot himself in the head, its his family's own damn fault for not teaching him to respect the power of firearms. His family paid the price by losing their offspring. Would you want someone that stupid breeding in the first place? Lets polute the gene pool some more! Yay!
You should know better than carrying a stance of someone you disagree with into absurdity. That is one of the least ethical of all the argumentative fallacies.
Not all fed prisons are min security. I worked for the trial agent for a narcotics case for 3 months. The defendants were placed in a maximum security prison (not a club fed).
There is no parole for federal crimes. IANAL (yet), but I interned in the USAO in DC 2 years ago. You serve your whole sentence. There is no time off for good behavior.
Guns won't go away. Arming the honest citizenry will lower their use and lower crime overall, as criminals realize that the chances of catching a bullet for attempting a crime have gone up exponentially. Hitler, Stalin, and Mao agree: an armed populace is a dangerous populace. What's sad is that Norway heavily resisted the Nazi's during WW2. That would be next to impossible for them to do today with a disarmed populace.
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some? Try the state. Which is analogous to the state of Iran targetting women. Thats right. The state of Iran is run by modern day Nazis.
Care to provide some citations? I didnt hear of anyone getting executed for voting for Kerry.
Well theres always Via/Centaur.
Someone needs to tell gmhowell >http://slashdot.org/~gmhowell/ that slashdot isnt a blog. He posts a new journal entry just about every day.
Its so nice to see that the sse2 results were used instead of the raw x87 scores for the intel p4 cored chips http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20041221/images/ch art_007.png
Holland, Zeeland, and Friesland(sp?) make up the Netherlands iirc.
Yeah, I forgot about the nazi issue.
Arguments from quality do not require scientific studies to be valid. A's spirit is more noble than B's spirit is a proposition of value, not a prop of fact, which would need hard evidence to support it. However, from your demeanor, it would appear that you prefer to have the government hobble things in order to make them better. Go you!
And I find it interesting that your two countries are France and Germany. Germany does have a basic guarentee of freedom of speech in its national laws, and the European Convention on Human Rights guarentees freedom of speech in the EU, which France and Germany are both members. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech
There is a difference between working and working well. A communication medium is cheapened if its subject matter is artificially cut. Now dont tou go and try to compare broadcast television and the internet as analogous. They are massively different. There is a pressing need for standards and practices in broadcast television as children are/were able to achieve unfettered access to it with just an arrow key until the advent of the V chip. The internet is not so simple to use, and has a limited child safety factor inherent in its design. Kids can stumble on television porn, but the odds of them actively entering a dns for porn was quite low.
Freedom of Speech is not just limited to the USA either. It has a strong tradition in most nations influenced by English common law. Just because some countries that you consider "western" dont officially protect speech, there would be repercussions in most western nations if such freedom was curtailed. A freedom does not have to be written in stone to exist in a nation.
Last time I checked "information and communication" both required freedom of the press and freedom of speech, unless you want some poor, shoddy substitutes for "information and communication".
In sphere pvp there were defenses. Magery was the most important tool in anyones arsenal. Anyone with over 40 magery could recall to a rune marked in a guarded area if they were attacked, and using line of sight casting you could evade most offensive spells by staying out of LOS. I am not a troll, I am speaking from experience on one type of emulation program of UO. People who dont like pvp should go play on servers that enforce strict rping, and hope they reject applications of people who propose to play the role of sociopathic criminals. I mainly hunted monsters for money, and usually only killed people hunting where I was (if it was a good place to get cash), or miners so I could get good tournament armor using their ore and a friend of mine who was a gm miner and gm smith. I was only a criminal when its benifits outweighed its costs.
Griefers, as you call them, are players who bring a bit of reality to games. The rule of law is not supreme everywhere, and it never will be. Venture out unprotected at your own peril. This goes for real life as well in less civilized places.
I would have to say that pvp is part of the game. If you dont like it, dont play games that allow you to die. Dont go offline in unprotected areas, and learn how to defend yourself. Your death is a result of your own stupidity if you are an even match for your attacker, if not then you should have run as soon as you saw red.
You mean quad socket boards dont make good workstations, dont you, as a dual socket board with 2x dual processor core chips would technically be 4 processors...
Tut tut tut! We don't ask for corporate secrets!
Actually, some games are actually cpu limited even with old geforce 2's. Day of Defeat and Natural Selection (HL1 mods) used to get low fps for me with an old 1.2GHz tbird. I upgraded to a 2600+ and my fps maxed out on DoD (vysnc=on). Natural Selection would still go down into the 40's at times, and even upgrading my geforce2 to a geforce6800 didnt prevent that. Sure, I can get 8500 3dmarks in 3dmark03build340, but I cant get constant 60 fps in Natural selection... CPU is more important in most games than many people give it credit for.
Ok, I'll bite.
The situation is not analogous. Capitalism does not require the goodwill of mankind to work. As a matter of fact it relies on mankinds inner selfishness to work. Humanity is selfish. Selfishness leads to violence in struggles over resources. Protection against the worst forms of violence is desirable both for pragmatic reasons (less risk) and reasons of principle (we do not necessarily have to use nuclear weapons, even if they are used against us).
You poor misguided idealist. Nuclear proliferation is a reality, as is long range missile tech proliferation. All you need is one stolen, hacked nuke to cause a shitload of trouble, and potentially start WW3.
I have never seen the this shower because I live in a northerly climate that isnt hospitable to astronomy most of the time. Will it be worth the 5 hour trip south?
Mod parent up +5 Babylon 5 reference.
HL2:DM has been released in a patch, just like I predicted. You can enjoy crushing your enemies with objects lauched by your ZPG. The crowbar isnt a default weapon though, :-/
The actual fighting of wars are not ideologically driven. Whoever has the best tech, most resources, and best soldiers usually wins. Ideology that started the war has very little effect on its outcome. Soldiers are pawns, and wishing them death is a cruel and horrible thing. Anything that we can do to reduce the risks our soldiers take, and at the same time inflict maximum casualties on our enemies is a good thing.
Someone doesnt understand the importance of seperate clauses within amendments...
If little Billy shot himself in the head, its his family's own damn fault for not teaching him to respect the power of firearms. His family paid the price by losing their offspring. Would you want someone that stupid breeding in the first place? Lets polute the gene pool some more! Yay! You should know better than carrying a stance of someone you disagree with into absurdity. That is one of the least ethical of all the argumentative fallacies.
Not all fed prisons are min security. I worked for the trial agent for a narcotics case for 3 months. The defendants were placed in a maximum security prison (not a club fed).
There is no parole for federal crimes. IANAL (yet), but I interned in the USAO in DC 2 years ago. You serve your whole sentence. There is no time off for good behavior.
Guns won't go away. Arming the honest citizenry will lower their use and lower crime overall, as criminals realize that the chances of catching a bullet for attempting a crime have gone up exponentially. Hitler, Stalin, and Mao agree: an armed populace is a dangerous populace. What's sad is that Norway heavily resisted the Nazi's during WW2. That would be next to impossible for them to do today with a disarmed populace.