The funny thing about using Iran and Panama in the context you used them is that the US was more or less involved in creating the governments that created the problem. Come to think of it we also went pretty far in antagonizing Japan into going to war with us. So really maybe you should say the world is a fairly predictable place where countries go around invading each other and overthrowing each other's governments, which causes conflict.
Commas are going to be key when writing things like this. For instance: You see it, how it is, not how it was. or You, see it how it is not, how it was. These sentences mean very different things. I don't consider myself to be any kind of punctuation Nazi, far from it. I'm not usually moved to comment on things like grammer or spelling. As you can tell from the way this post is written my grasp on the English language is slippery at best. But this sentence is gibberish without commas. You see it how it is, not how it was.
I'm not so sure this parent is insightful. The billions of dollars is gross income made by media corporations. The RIAA is not selling music to anyone. The RIAA is just a PR organization that large music corporations give money to. I'd be willing to bet that the total budget of the RIAA is closer to 10 million dollars then 100 million dollars. I seriously doubt that major music corporations would be willing to donate much more of their operating income then that. Unless, of course, they get some kind of tax deduction for funding a "non-profit" trade promoting group.
Yeah! And blind people too! No way no lazy blind person should be able too... Oh, it's not their fault they're blind. Well, how do you know, maybe they were being lazy and then they poked their eye out with something. Yeah, that's it. Down with lazy people! In fact I think the constitution stricly forbids lazy and blind people from voting. And maybe Jews too, I'll have to get back to you on that. Oh wait, thats Nazi Germany, my bad.
I think this is the major problem with using the PC for games instead of a console. And it's not really necessary that it be a problem. The companies that develop games for PCs look at all the new eye candy they can make with the newest graphics card, processor, and RAM upgrades, and decide that it's not worth making a game that will run on hardware that is a couple of years old. But really they are just limiting their own market. I'm sure that Duke Nukem Forever will be a kickass game if it ever comes out, but I'm not going to buy it. I have a 3 year old computer that does everything I want it to except play the newest games, and it's not worth it to me to spend another $1000 on a new computer just for games. If game companies took that into account when they designed new PC games maybe their market wouldn't be shrinking as much.
As of hearing this news I am recommending that people leave the United States. It was a good 200 years of freedom, but it's over. Anyone have any good ideas on where I can go?
They get around the prohibition on spying on citizens by hiring other governments, such as the Brits and Australians to do it for them. That's the big reason we gave them access to Eschelon to begin with.
And Eschelon isn't used for anti-terrorism nearly as much as it is used for economic, and industrial espionage. So the target market for these phones might be trade commissions, corporations, and other groups that have business secrets the US government might want to pass along to companies they are friendly with./P
Ha ha hahahahahaha.... hahahaha....ha ha hooooooo.....
But seriously. The NSA isn't the world's most prolific phone tapper... hahahaha hhaha ha ha.... That's a good one. They probably only listen in to several hundred million cell phone calls a day. That's not so much. Of course most of that is automated listening for keywords, so maybe that doesn't count.
That's why I think that ISPs should be classified as common carriers like the phone company. THe phone company isn't responsible for illegal uses of the phone, and neither should ISPs.
Yeah, but the magazine article was written in 1998. Which is 8 years after 1990, which isn't a really relevant date anyway since Gulf War I was in 1991. But 98 was only 5 years ago, so it's not like it's ancient history. And they even say that it's old, but that doesn't mean that the ideas in it dont't pertain anymore. The reasons why the article were removed are open to interpretation. My guess is that GHWB asked the publisher to pressure them to take it down. The suspicious part to me is that it was removed from the table of contents instead of just being marked as not available. Although that may be the way they handle everything that is removed.
That's why we should put someone who will cut federal spending like Dubya in. No wait, he just spends money like there's no tommorrow and cuts taxes, bankrupting future generations.
Tax and spend liberals my ass.
It's better then running up a tab that someone else is going to have to pay for.
The cost of energy is gradually built into pretty much everything in the current economy. It would take some time, but the cost of any consumer good or service you can imagine would come down considerably if the cost of energy drops to near zero. Consider housing manufactured and erected in a zero energy cost environment. Most of the costs of concrete, and anything made of concrete are energy costs. The cost of energy is built in at every level of the construction process. Brick? Basically cooked (with energy) silica. Steel? Melted (again with energy) ore. All the transportation costs? Oil can be made from coal, or shale the reason it isn't done now is that the expense of the energy to do it is higher then the cost of oil. And anyway electrolysis can make perfectly clean hydrogen and oxygen should we choose to go that route.
The point is that when you are thinking of energy costs you are thinking mostly about your electric or gas bill, which is small compared to your total expenses. But the cost of energy overall to the economy is almost omnipresent. The cost of paper is pretty much the cost of trees + cost of energy to make paper + cost of labor. The cost of trees is cost of labor + cost of energy used by vehicles, machines etc + cost of logging rights. The cost of the vehicles is cost of energy used to make them + labor + capital costs, etc, etc.
The reason that people don't realize the true expense of energy to the economy is that it is implicit in the cost of everything.
Well, in the case I gave the light wouldn't ever change. There was one of those loops in the ground that is supposed to change the light when a car or something heavy stopped on top of it. But the loop didn't work. And the light wasn't on a timer. I once sat at the light for 5 minutes in the middle of the night. I think one car went by on the road going the other way. Five minutes is a LONG time to wait at a light in the middle of the night. I just wanted to see if it would change. Then I backed up 50 yards flashed my high beams and went on through the green light. So don't believe it if you don't want to, it's no skin off my back, but I believe it.
is that you can sometimes make lights with this device change by flashing your high beams. I used to do this all the time with a light that was supposed to change with a weight sensor in the road that didn't work. The light also happened to be right next to the fire company so it had one of the sensors (not all lights in the area had them.) So, I would flash my high beams really quick on and off a couple times when I was about 50 yards from the light and it would change in time for me to go through.
My point being, that if I can do it like that I'm sure that any system that would write tickets for this would have false positives, from just random effects such as sunlight bouncing off of chrome, or a car hitting up bump which throws the headlights up. False positives are one thing that courts have frowned upon in the past, especially in systems that try to write tickets without having a human operator present.
I think that, unless what is "broken" is more like an exploit of the games rules, the people in charge of a game are better off providing tools for players to help take care of the situation. I played EQ for awhile, and it got pretty boring. It could have done with something like the Dread Lords going around killing off townsfolk. Perhaps when something like that happens a "Special Edition" of town newspapers could go out saying where they were and encouraging players to help come and defend the town.
I think that a lot of the time solutions that simply change the game rules to reduce chaotic type situations end up making the game less interesting. Sure the Dread Lords might rule the place for awhile, but once people get involved with trying to stop them it makes the game much more interesting for everyone. And when the defending group finally wins everyone can breathe a sigh of relief as the Dread Lords slink off into the shadows to try to regain their power. Which is a classic Fantasy world plot. The stories never go "And then the Mighty Wizard Dungeonous Masterous changed the rules of combat so that the Evil Dread Lords couldn't do anything about it."
Once the people who make games start using player created imbalances as creative acts then maybe MMORPGs will start to take on a much more interesting flavor.
That would be great. I always wanted a posse. If you get one together you should make them all wear MC Hammer pants..... And everytime you say something a bunch of them should go "Word!" Then you could give them shout outs and stuff.
[rant]Maybe if we had a command economy I could see the point in your pointed retort. But capitalism "wastes" some labor resources on some pretty silly things just because someone is willing to pay for them. Not that I saying that's a bad thing. It's just a fact of life. Car detailing? That guy in the fancy restroom that hands you a towel? Lobbyists? Siegfried and Roy are fricking millionaires for god's sakes. Your telling me that a guy seperating recycleables so that I don't have to do it, and so people who don't do it still get their garbage recycled is a bigger problem then the fact that Carrot Top is probably a millionaire? And the fucking Juice Man? [rant off]
BTW, if you had read the post below my original, my head in ass crack was not directed at you but the post before, my comment was posted in the wrong place in the thread.
Actually, hemp and marijuana are fairly similar. Marijuana is just bred to be higher in THC then the hemp that is used for industrial purposes. And marijuana is illegal (at least in some respects) because William Randolph Hearst decided that it should be illegal. It and most drugs that are currently illegal were perfectly legal for anyone to purchase and consume. He wasn't all that concerned about people smoking dope. But he did own a lot of logging rights, forestry concerns and paper mills. The types of concerns that could be financially damaged by a paper industry that would be based on hemp. And he owned a lot of newspapers which printed some of the classic "Reefer Madness" type articles. Ones that would claim that black people smoked the reefer then went out and raped white women and such.
So while I freely acknowledge that my head may at times be up my ass, in this case I believe it is not.
You can make paper from a lot of plants. You don't see anyone calling for legalizing papyrus. On the other hand papyrus makes pretty crappy paper. And if you look into the history of why marijuana is illegal in America you'll understand a little better why the hemp subject came up. But don't let me interfere with that apparently enjoyable head in ass thing you got going on.
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The funny thing about using Iran and Panama in the context you used them is that the US was more or less involved in creating the governments that created the problem. Come to think of it we also went pretty far in antagonizing Japan into going to war with us. So really maybe you should say the world is a fairly predictable place where countries go around invading each other and overthrowing each other's governments, which causes conflict.
Commas are going to be key when writing things like this. For instance: You see it, how it is, not how it was. or You, see it how it is not, how it was. These sentences mean very different things. I don't consider myself to be any kind of punctuation Nazi, far from it. I'm not usually moved to comment on things like grammer or spelling. As you can tell from the way this post is written my grasp on the English language is slippery at best. But this sentence is gibberish without commas. You see it how it is, not how it was.
If by "ran just fine on windows" you mean "only gave me the blue screen of death every of couple of hours", then yes.
I'm not so sure this parent is insightful. The billions of dollars is gross income made by media corporations. The RIAA is not selling music to anyone. The RIAA is just a PR organization that large music corporations give money to. I'd be willing to bet that the total budget of the RIAA is closer to 10 million dollars then 100 million dollars. I seriously doubt that major music corporations would be willing to donate much more of their operating income then that. Unless, of course, they get some kind of tax deduction for funding a "non-profit" trade promoting group.
Yeah! And blind people too! No way no lazy blind person should be able too ... Oh, it's not their fault they're blind. Well, how do you know, maybe they were being lazy and then they poked their eye out with something. Yeah, that's it. Down with lazy people! In fact I think the constitution stricly forbids lazy and blind people from voting. And maybe Jews too, I'll have to get back to you on that. Oh wait, thats Nazi Germany, my bad.
I think this is the major problem with using the PC for games instead of a console. And it's not really necessary that it be a problem. The companies that develop games for PCs look at all the new eye candy they can make with the newest graphics card, processor, and RAM upgrades, and decide that it's not worth making a game that will run on hardware that is a couple of years old. But really they are just limiting their own market. I'm sure that Duke Nukem Forever will be a kickass game if it ever comes out, but I'm not going to buy it. I have a 3 year old computer that does everything I want it to except play the newest games, and it's not worth it to me to spend another $1000 on a new computer just for games. If game companies took that into account when they designed new PC games maybe their market wouldn't be shrinking as much.
As of hearing this news I am recommending that people leave the United States. It was a good 200 years of freedom, but it's over. Anyone have any good ideas on where I can go?
They get around the prohibition on spying on citizens by hiring other governments, such as the Brits and Australians to do it for them. That's the big reason we gave them access to Eschelon to begin with.
And Eschelon isn't used for anti-terrorism nearly as much as it is used for economic, and industrial espionage. So the target market for these phones might be trade commissions, corporations, and other groups that have business secrets the US government might want to pass along to companies they are friendly with./P
Ha ha hahahahahaha .... hahahaha....ha ha hooooooo.....
But seriously. The NSA isn't the world's most prolific phone tapper ... hahahaha hhaha ha ha.... That's a good one. They probably only listen in to several hundred million cell phone calls a day. That's not so much. Of course most of that is automated listening for keywords, so maybe that doesn't count.
That's why I think that ISPs should be classified as common carriers like the phone company. THe phone company isn't responsible for illegal uses of the phone, and neither should ISPs.
Yeah, but the magazine article was written in 1998. Which is 8 years after 1990, which isn't a really relevant date anyway since Gulf War I was in 1991. But 98 was only 5 years ago, so it's not like it's ancient history. And they even say that it's old, but that doesn't mean that the ideas in it dont't pertain anymore. The reasons why the article were removed are open to interpretation. My guess is that GHWB asked the publisher to pressure them to take it down. The suspicious part to me is that it was removed from the table of contents instead of just being marked as not available. Although that may be the way they handle everything that is removed.
That's why we should put someone who will cut federal spending like Dubya in. No wait, he just spends money like there's no tommorrow and cuts taxes, bankrupting future generations.
Tax and spend liberals my ass.
It's better then running up a tab that someone else is going to have to pay for.
An elegant solution to the labor problem with house building.
The cost of energy is gradually built into pretty much everything in the current economy. It would take some time, but the cost of any consumer good or service you can imagine would come down considerably if the cost of energy drops to near zero. Consider housing manufactured and erected in a zero energy cost environment. Most of the costs of concrete, and anything made of concrete are energy costs. The cost of energy is built in at every level of the construction process. Brick? Basically cooked (with energy) silica. Steel? Melted (again with energy) ore. All the transportation costs? Oil can be made from coal, or shale the reason it isn't done now is that the expense of the energy to do it is higher then the cost of oil. And anyway electrolysis can make perfectly clean hydrogen and oxygen should we choose to go that route.
The point is that when you are thinking of energy costs you are thinking mostly about your electric or gas bill, which is small compared to your total expenses. But the cost of energy overall to the economy is almost omnipresent. The cost of paper is pretty much the cost of trees + cost of energy to make paper + cost of labor. The cost of trees is cost of labor + cost of energy used by vehicles, machines etc + cost of logging rights. The cost of the vehicles is cost of energy used to make them + labor + capital costs, etc, etc.
The reason that people don't realize the true expense of energy to the economy is that it is implicit in the cost of everything.
I for one welcome the alien overlords who are hurling comets at the sun. Even if those fools at NASA claim that it has nothing to do with it.
Well, in the case I gave the light wouldn't ever change. There was one of those loops in the ground that is supposed to change the light when a car or something heavy stopped on top of it. But the loop didn't work. And the light wasn't on a timer. I once sat at the light for 5 minutes in the middle of the night. I think one car went by on the road going the other way. Five minutes is a LONG time to wait at a light in the middle of the night. I just wanted to see if it would change. Then I backed up 50 yards flashed my high beams and went on through the green light. So don't believe it if you don't want to, it's no skin off my back, but I believe it.
is that you can sometimes make lights with this device change by flashing your high beams. I used to do this all the time with a light that was supposed to change with a weight sensor in the road that didn't work. The light also happened to be right next to the fire company so it had one of the sensors (not all lights in the area had them.) So, I would flash my high beams really quick on and off a couple times when I was about 50 yards from the light and it would change in time for me to go through.
My point being, that if I can do it like that I'm sure that any system that would write tickets for this would have false positives, from just random effects such as sunlight bouncing off of chrome, or a car hitting up bump which throws the headlights up. False positives are one thing that courts have frowned upon in the past, especially in systems that try to write tickets without having a human operator present.
I think that, unless what is "broken" is more like an exploit of the games rules, the people in charge of a game are better off providing tools for players to help take care of the situation. I played EQ for awhile, and it got pretty boring. It could have done with something like the Dread Lords going around killing off townsfolk. Perhaps when something like that happens a "Special Edition" of town newspapers could go out saying where they were and encouraging players to help come and defend the town.
I think that a lot of the time solutions that simply change the game rules to reduce chaotic type situations end up making the game less interesting. Sure the Dread Lords might rule the place for awhile, but once people get involved with trying to stop them it makes the game much more interesting for everyone. And when the defending group finally wins everyone can breathe a sigh of relief as the Dread Lords slink off into the shadows to try to regain their power. Which is a classic Fantasy world plot. The stories never go "And then the Mighty Wizard Dungeonous Masterous changed the rules of combat so that the Evil Dread Lords couldn't do anything about it."
Once the people who make games start using player created imbalances as creative acts then maybe MMORPGs will start to take on a much more interesting flavor.
That would be great. I always wanted a posse. If you get one together you should make them all wear MC Hammer pants. .... And everytime you say something a bunch of them should go "Word!" Then you could give them shout outs and stuff.
Flipping burgers?
But seriously, my comment was intended as a joke.
[rant]Maybe if we had a command economy I could see the point in your pointed retort. But capitalism "wastes" some labor resources on some pretty silly things just because someone is willing to pay for them. Not that I saying that's a bad thing. It's just a fact of life. Car detailing? That guy in the fancy restroom that hands you a towel? Lobbyists? Siegfried and Roy are fricking millionaires for god's sakes. Your telling me that a guy seperating recycleables so that I don't have to do it, and so people who don't do it still get their garbage recycled is a bigger problem then the fact that Carrot Top is probably a millionaire? And the fucking Juice Man? [rant off]
BTW, if you had read the post below my original, my head in ass crack was not directed at you but the post before, my comment was posted in the wrong place in the thread.
Actually, hemp and marijuana are fairly similar. Marijuana is just bred to be higher in THC then the hemp that is used for industrial purposes. And marijuana is illegal (at least in some respects) because William Randolph Hearst decided that it should be illegal. It and most drugs that are currently illegal were perfectly legal for anyone to purchase and consume. He wasn't all that concerned about people smoking dope. But he did own a lot of logging rights, forestry concerns and paper mills. The types of concerns that could be financially damaged by a paper industry that would be based on hemp. And he owned a lot of newspapers which printed some of the classic "Reefer Madness" type articles. Ones that would claim that black people smoked the reefer then went out and raped white women and such.
So while I freely acknowledge that my head may at times be up my ass, in this case I believe it is not.
Sorry, this should have been posted to the thread several above this
You can make paper from a lot of plants. You don't see anyone calling for legalizing papyrus. On the other hand papyrus makes pretty crappy paper. And if you look into the history of why marijuana is illegal in America you'll understand a little better why the hemp subject came up. But don't let me interfere with that apparently enjoyable head in ass thing you got going on.
Sounds a lot more efficient to me. I loved just throwing everything in one can. Plus, it helps the economy by creating jobs!