>> It's a nice, safe, social sharing event without the
>> drawbacks and risks of disease or mental impairment.
That really depends on what the other person is listening to, though. I'd certianly consider getting some hideous Britney Spears line stuck in my brain to be mental impairment...
>>if you use Apple's music store along with iTunes, you
>> don't have the ability of using the over 40 different
>>Windows Media-compatible portable music devices.
Oh, shoot. I mean, that's really a big problem for me. I like to use my Rio on Monday, and Samsung mp3 player on alternate Wednesdays, and the Nomad for Friday afternoon... What am I going to do if I can only use my iPod? Horrors!
This might only work here in California, but someone should start a proposition to require a paper trail. Then, they should hack the voting machines to make sure the proposition passes.
If the scheme succeeds, well then hey, we get a paper trail.
If it's discovered, then the need for a paper trail is vividly and publicly demonstrated.
>> great way to stop giving the service away for free to >>freeloaders who generate no ad revenue
Oddly enough, the Mac version of YIM does not appear to have any ads. Why would they care if I should choose to use a third-party solution? Admittedly, I have yet to find a decent one, but that's beside the point.
>> I think it would be funny to set up a checkpoint on a
>> busy road that triggered Micky to start swearing at the
>> hapless tourists he's travelling with.
Eh, but all they have to do is slap on some BS 'encryption' scheme, and then DMCA your ass halfway to hell and back if you circumvent it to send unauthorized messages...
The Onion is certainly a valid take on satire, but sometimes a stilleto is more effective than a broadsword. While The Onion takes stupidity and makes it more stupid by bringing it to its ultimate conclusion, the folk(s) behind MAVAV must have decided that all of the stupid anti-gaming propaganda didn't even need to be taken much farther. Direct imitation was good enough.
You look at The Onion, and you know that they're joking. It's when you're not sure that MAVAV's point is made. The fact that it can get you to almost believe absurd headlines like "Everquest: A Threat to Society" is what is supposed to make you realize how silly it all is.
LeGuin's sci-fi (Left Hand of Darkness, Hain cycle, etc.) always struck me because of it's cultural realism. Even though the alien species posited are humanoid, the extreme difference in culture between the species makes for a great dramatic device (especially when help is decades away!). By giving them such different points of view from our own, she makes her writing much more humanly thoughtful than a lot of sci-fi out there.
Just as she built up the world of Earthsea with offhand anecdotes regarding the world around the characters, building up the cultures of her alien worlds gives her novels both a satisfying completeness and a believable internal consistency.
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>> It's a nice, safe, social sharing event without the
>> drawbacks and risks of disease or mental impairment.
That really depends on what the other person is listening to, though. I'd certianly consider getting some hideous Britney Spears line stuck in my brain to be mental impairment...
>>if you use Apple's music store along with iTunes, you
>> don't have the ability of using the over 40 different
>>Windows Media-compatible portable music devices.
Oh, shoot. I mean, that's really a big problem for me. I like to use my Rio on Monday, and Samsung mp3 player on alternate Wednesdays, and the Nomad for Friday afternoon... What am I going to do if I can only use my iPod? Horrors!
This might only work here in California, but someone should start a proposition to require a paper trail. Then, they should hack the voting machines to make sure the proposition passes.
If the scheme succeeds, well then hey, we get a paper trail.
If it's discovered, then the need for a paper trail is vividly and publicly demonstrated.
All we need now are some sacrificial crackers...
You can remember it? You obviously didn't participate in an enthusiastic enough manner...
>> great way to stop giving the service away for free to
>>freeloaders who generate no ad revenue
Oddly enough, the Mac version of YIM does not appear to have any ads. Why would they care if I should choose to use a third-party solution? Admittedly, I have yet to find a decent one, but that's beside the point.
>> "A wonderful play you'll never take a date to!"
We obviously have very different taste in women.
>> I think it would be funny to set up a checkpoint on a >> busy road that triggered Micky to start swearing at the >> hapless tourists he's travelling with. Eh, but all they have to do is slap on some BS 'encryption' scheme, and then DMCA your ass halfway to hell and back if you circumvent it to send unauthorized messages...
The Onion is certainly a valid take on satire, but sometimes a stilleto is more effective than a broadsword. While The Onion takes stupidity and makes it more stupid by bringing it to its ultimate conclusion, the folk(s) behind MAVAV must have decided that all of the stupid anti-gaming propaganda didn't even need to be taken much farther. Direct imitation was good enough.
You look at The Onion, and you know that they're joking. It's when you're not sure that MAVAV's point is made. The fact that it can get you to almost believe absurd headlines like "Everquest: A Threat to Society" is what is supposed to make you realize how silly it all is.
LeGuin's sci-fi (Left Hand of Darkness, Hain cycle, etc.) always struck me because of it's cultural realism. Even though the alien species posited are humanoid, the extreme difference in culture between the species makes for a great dramatic device (especially when help is decades away!). By giving them such different points of view from our own, she makes her writing much more humanly thoughtful than a lot of sci-fi out there. Just as she built up the world of Earthsea with offhand anecdotes regarding the world around the characters, building up the cultures of her alien worlds gives her novels both a satisfying completeness and a believable internal consistency.