Yes yes yes! Once again, it's the USA's fault. You do realize, of course, that business that people don't frequent fail. So that Blockbuster on the corner, that you despise, must be appealing to somebody over there.
Oooohh... you're right! We SHOULD all be free to do whatever we want. I get to hear stories about people who were on certain drugs (no, no stories about marijuana) who beat people so badly they had to be hospitalized.... one such incident cost a child the loss of vision in one eye. That attackers excuse? He was high and didn't realize what he was doing. I suppose his rights were infringed upon, however, by locking him up for assualt and drug charges.
No matter how much you try to convince me, I'll not take your side. We have laws to protect the greater good of people in this country. Having a bunch of heroin addicts running around does not support the greater good, and that's not an arguable statement.
If you don't like the laws, the work within the system to change them.
There is a school of thought that if you cannot explain what you've done, then what you did was worthless.
If it was hard to write, it should be hard to read.
If I have to support one more system written by folks like my father, who lived by that creed, the next time you'll see me will be in the evening news.
I see your point, but I still smell lawsuits (remember, in the US, anyone can sue for anything... don't sue me for saying it).
The problem with the new system is that there is real money being used. Wether or not the wording of the EULA clearly states the intent of the system to allow exchange while not guaranteeing value related to the purchase, people will still get up in arms when their new weapon has been nerfed by a patch and no longer retains any value ingame.
I spent my childhood growing up on the streets for the most part.
Now I get it. Because your area had corruption, everywhere else does too.
Again, insulting my fiance without having had the opportunity to even meet her discredits anything you say about her personality or reasons for being a police officer.
She has busted people solely for drugs... one in particular was on a middle school campus. Was that unpatriotic of her to remove that child, and the drugs, from a public learning environment? BTW, it was cocaine.... not crack, cocaine.
I agree drug laws are too harsh. But look up the history of drugs and their laws. They tie back to the early 20th century and the rampant heroin problem in China and, eventually, the US. China sovled their problem by becoming a dictatorship and publicly executing drug users/sellers. Here, we took a nicer approach.. made laws, and opened clinics. However, with each law comes someone who finds a way to exploit it, so a new law is made... rinse and repeat.
While some drugs don't have the same effect on a persons body, disposition, etc... as others, it was just not possible to purport one mind altering drug as illegal and another as not. Hence, prohbition. The only difference between drug and alcohol users was the "class" of society they belonged to... so alcohol became legal again, but just barely. So don't run off about alcohol being more harmful than pot yadda yadda yadda... do your research before you decide to call taking someone who's high on cocaine in a middle school unpatriotic.
You obviously know fuck all about the mentality of people who choose as a career path to perform a job that is mostly centered around busting people for exercising their constitutionally guaranteed rights and robbing people to increase government revenues.
I suppose living with one for 4 years, and hanging out with many of them for that period of time, discussing issues just like this one, eliminates me from having any knowledge then? What are your qualifications?
My fiance has been a police officer now for 6 years, so I suppose she now either hates people or is just plain stupid. Is that what you know firsthand without having met her or any of her coworkers?
Close minded people like you, making such generalizations, are the ones giving intellectuals a bad name.
Put yourself in the shoes of the peacekeepers... in this case the police.
How do you, as a police officer, keep the peace when a demonstration that was peaceful begins to turn ugly? You're outnumbered and have to act quickly before it escalates further.
What they're trained to do (I'm engaged to a police officer and she's done riot training) is quell it quickly... starting with announcements. However, that usually doesn't work for any number of reasons.. can't hear, don't care, don't believe, etc... Then comes the physical disbursement, which is where some idiots make it difficult on everyone else by fighting back.
The last thing police officers want is any violence at all, given they're outnumbered and it's just plain more work to do anyway. Do you think they're standing there just itching to whack someone with a baton?
Yes... just ask my fiance's ex-husband who openly admits to not only falling for the scam (twice), but having also lost substsantial amounts of money in day trading and buying into a mobile home business which was being propagated by an ex-con.
Strange. As an owner of both a PS2 and an XBox, I openly admit I bought the XBox because the graphics were better, and because it had a hard drive built in, eliminating the need for losable (although portable) memory cards.
Nah, it appears to be cyclical, just as the last few boxoffice productions out of Hollywood have been remakes (can anyone believe they remade Herbie?).
My point is it's absurd to think the UN should globalize property paid for by the US (they already did this once) in an effort to take control over something that has never really had any restrictions placed on it by it's current owner.
I like it to "borrowing" a cable signal with their permission, then telling them you need to hold the remote in your hand, and should decide what pay per view shows will be watched.
That's not what I meant at all. All of the original infrastructure, though, and more than half of it currently, still reside within the US.
All I'm saying is that if US management of TLD's etc... is so infuriating to the rest of the world, as is suggested, then why do they backbone off of our hardware?
If the US being "in charge" of the internet has made so many folks upset that the UN thinks they need to get involved, why haven't they already pointed to a different set of root servers?
I liken this to the famous politicians in Mexico before VF came to power. Oil company that makes a nice profit? Nationalize it. Any business that makes money hand over fist? Nationalize it. How is it the UN would take control of infrastructure that was built with US taxpayers' money?
The thing is, nobody needs to be responsible for the "internet" as a whole. There are servers in the US, servers in Europe, servers in Japan, etc... The only real "governance" is the TLDs, but propagation of them is about as automated as one could ask them to be.
What exactly would the UN be doing if they were "in charge" of the internet?
As SWG is one of the (if not the) lowest populated games, I'd say there's something awry with the numbers. I'm on a faily low populated server, and at any given time there are (just guessing) 1-2k players on. The more heavily popilated servers have around 3k players. SOE stopped reporting number of active accounts some time ago when they dropped from the initial 350k, so I can only guess what the actual numbers are.
What I don't know is how many servers run my galaxy. But I can tell you this... the lag can be excruciating at times.
Never... EVER... trust a presentation over real experience to determine ease of use of a product. Remember, the goal of that presentation is simply to sell the product:)
I'm waiting on my Mac Mini too, btw, and am looking forward to playing with Tiger's features.
The problem with your post is you don't show any evidence of this release of OSX being anything but a minor release. Rather, you just compare it to Windows and it's release history.
While I agree that Windows, until Win2k was just shell improvements, there was a dramatic difference in the UI between 3.1 and 95. XP was, in fact, a new OS, as was Mac's OSX. The core libraries were different than previous versions, which, to me, makes it a new OS. The difference between the two was, and for obvious reasons, the fact that XP would support (some) legacy code, while OSX couldn't.
Maybe in the future, if you're going to groan about someone's comments regarding an OSX update, you could give some detail as to why he's incorrect, rather than just point at someone else and say "they're the same way!"
I like OSX, and happen to be a win32 programmer. So don't assume any of this is just apple bashing from a windoze guy.
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Yes yes yes! Once again, it's the USA's fault. You do realize, of course, that business that people don't frequent fail. So that Blockbuster on the corner, that you despise, must be appealing to somebody over there.
Oooohh... you're right! We SHOULD all be free to do whatever we want. I get to hear stories about people who were on certain drugs (no, no stories about marijuana) who beat people so badly they had to be hospitalized.... one such incident cost a child the loss of vision in one eye. That attackers excuse? He was high and didn't realize what he was doing. I suppose his rights were infringed upon, however, by locking him up for assualt and drug charges.
No matter how much you try to convince me, I'll not take your side. We have laws to protect the greater good of people in this country. Having a bunch of heroin addicts running around does not support the greater good, and that's not an arguable statement.
If you don't like the laws, the work within the system to change them.
If I have to support one more system written by folks like my father, who lived by that creed, the next time you'll see me will be in the evening news.
That's just sickening, when she could have spent it wisely on a new climate controlled building for her 100 pigeons!
I see your point, but I still smell lawsuits (remember, in the US, anyone can sue for anything... don't sue me for saying it).
The problem with the new system is that there is real money being used. Wether or not the wording of the EULA clearly states the intent of the system to allow exchange while not guaranteeing value related to the purchase, people will still get up in arms when their new weapon has been nerfed by a patch and no longer retains any value ingame.
Her actual pet hamster's name was Hampton thus leading to the site being called hampster.
I spent my childhood growing up on the streets for the most part.
Now I get it. Because your area had corruption, everywhere else does too.
Again, insulting my fiance without having had the opportunity to even meet her discredits anything you say about her personality or reasons for being a police officer.
She has busted people solely for drugs... one in particular was on a middle school campus. Was that unpatriotic of her to remove that child, and the drugs, from a public learning environment? BTW, it was cocaine.... not crack, cocaine.
I agree drug laws are too harsh. But look up the history of drugs and their laws. They tie back to the early 20th century and the rampant heroin problem in China and, eventually, the US. China sovled their problem by becoming a dictatorship and publicly executing drug users/sellers. Here, we took a nicer approach.. made laws, and opened clinics. However, with each law comes someone who finds a way to exploit it, so a new law is made... rinse and repeat.
While some drugs don't have the same effect on a persons body, disposition, etc... as others, it was just not possible to purport one mind altering drug as illegal and another as not. Hence, prohbition. The only difference between drug and alcohol users was the "class" of society they belonged to... so alcohol became legal again, but just barely. So don't run off about alcohol being more harmful than pot yadda yadda yadda... do your research before you decide to call taking someone who's high on cocaine in a middle school unpatriotic.
You obviously know fuck all about the mentality of people who choose as a career path to perform a job that is mostly centered around busting people for exercising their constitutionally guaranteed rights and robbing people to increase government revenues.
I suppose living with one for 4 years, and hanging out with many of them for that period of time, discussing issues just like this one, eliminates me from having any knowledge then? What are your qualifications?
My fiance has been a police officer now for 6 years, so I suppose she now either hates people or is just plain stupid. Is that what you know firsthand without having met her or any of her coworkers?
Close minded people like you, making such generalizations, are the ones giving intellectuals a bad name.
Modded interesting just because the parent said it was videotaped?!?!? Where are your references, or any proof whatsoever?
Here's my attempt at being modded interesting...
Seumas is from another planet.. his/her landing was videotaped. Here comes my Karma...
Put yourself in the shoes of the peacekeepers... in this case the police.
How do you, as a police officer, keep the peace when a demonstration that was peaceful begins to turn ugly? You're outnumbered and have to act quickly before it escalates further.
What they're trained to do (I'm engaged to a police officer and she's done riot training) is quell it quickly... starting with announcements. However, that usually doesn't work for any number of reasons.. can't hear, don't care, don't believe, etc... Then comes the physical disbursement, which is where some idiots make it difficult on everyone else by fighting back.
The last thing police officers want is any violence at all, given they're outnumbered and it's just plain more work to do anyway. Do you think they're standing there just itching to whack someone with a baton?
Oh! You're right! The rioters are the Americans that are still there from 1980!
Mmmmmmm. genetically-altered giant Twinkie. Ggghahaahhahahhahh.
People's tastes dictate how some groups' reasearch is funded, unfortunately.
I believe those were the famous last words of the founders of the Republic of Fredonia... the first attempt and revolution in the Texas colony.
Yes... just ask my fiance's ex-husband who openly admits to not only falling for the scam (twice), but having also lost substsantial amounts of money in day trading and buying into a mobile home business which was being propagated by an ex-con.
/sigh
Some people never learn
Just for clarification, Star Wars was A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...
Strange. As an owner of both a PS2 and an XBox, I openly admit I bought the XBox because the graphics were better, and because it had a hard drive built in, eliminating the need for losable (although portable) memory cards.
Nah, it appears to be cyclical, just as the last few boxoffice productions out of Hollywood have been remakes (can anyone believe they remade Herbie?).
My point is it's absurd to think the UN should globalize property paid for by the US (they already did this once) in an effort to take control over something that has never really had any restrictions placed on it by it's current owner.
I like it to "borrowing" a cable signal with their permission, then telling them you need to hold the remote in your hand, and should decide what pay per view shows will be watched.
That's not what I meant at all. All of the original infrastructure, though, and more than half of it currently, still reside within the US.
All I'm saying is that if US management of TLD's etc... is so infuriating to the rest of the world, as is suggested, then why do they backbone off of our hardware?
If the US being "in charge" of the internet has made so many folks upset that the UN thinks they need to get involved, why haven't they already pointed to a different set of root servers?
I liken this to the famous politicians in Mexico before VF came to power. Oil company that makes a nice profit? Nationalize it. Any business that makes money hand over fist? Nationalize it. How is it the UN would take control of infrastructure that was built with US taxpayers' money?
You do.. which is why there are TLDs such as .ca, .ru, etc...
The thing is, nobody needs to be responsible for the "internet" as a whole. There are servers in the US, servers in Europe, servers in Japan, etc... The only real "governance" is the TLDs, but propagation of them is about as automated as one could ask them to be.
What exactly would the UN be doing if they were "in charge" of the internet?
Yet they still lag :)
As SWG is one of the (if not the) lowest populated games, I'd say there's something awry with the numbers. I'm on a faily low populated server, and at any given time there are (just guessing) 1-2k players on. The more heavily popilated servers have around 3k players. SOE stopped reporting number of active accounts some time ago when they dropped from the initial 350k, so I can only guess what the actual numbers are. What I don't know is how many servers run my galaxy. But I can tell you this... the lag can be excruciating at times.
Never... EVER... trust a presentation over real experience to determine ease of use of a product. Remember, the goal of that presentation is simply to sell the product :)
I'm waiting on my Mac Mini too, btw, and am looking forward to playing with Tiger's features.
The problem with your post is you don't show any evidence of this release of OSX being anything but a minor release. Rather, you just compare it to Windows and it's release history.
While I agree that Windows, until Win2k was just shell improvements, there was a dramatic difference in the UI between 3.1 and 95. XP was, in fact, a new OS, as was Mac's OSX. The core libraries were different than previous versions, which, to me, makes it a new OS. The difference between the two was, and for obvious reasons, the fact that XP would support (some) legacy code, while OSX couldn't.
Maybe in the future, if you're going to groan about someone's comments regarding an OSX update, you could give some detail as to why he's incorrect, rather than just point at someone else and say "they're the same way!"
I like OSX, and happen to be a win32 programmer. So don't assume any of this is just apple bashing from a windoze guy.