the phone was (allegedly) hooked up to a machine outside the building. the information (speed of ball, speed of wheel, location of ball, etc) was passed to the machine, which made a prediction of the sector (not the actual slot) the ball would land in, and fed that sector back to the phone.
the maker (Mystique) made several other games that used the same characters. the plot was always the same: make it across the screen, insert youself into the woman, and hit the buttons really really fast (humping).
caffeine can kill you if you have an ulcer in you stomach. of course, the chances are about 1 in a billion. pot smokers know this. they have built up a defense that includes figuring out all the common foods that can kill you.
raw potatoes can kill you too. that one's a lot more common.
Greg Palast's book, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, documents this in detail.
one of the most interesting parts is an interview he had with Clayton Roberts, director of Florida's Division of Elections. Just after Roberts sat down to talk with Palast, he noticed a document labeled "CONFIDENTIAL". He immediately jumped up, ripped off his microphone, ran into his office, and slammed the door. the document said that DBT (ChoicePoint) would be paid $2.3 million for their purge lists and "manual verification using telephone calls and statistical sampling" [quoted from the document].
this was incriminating because Roberts and Secretary of State Katherine Harris had testified under oath to the US Civil Rights Commission that it was not DBT's job to verify the accuracy of the purge list; it was up to the county elections supervisors.
a photocopy of the confidential document is provided in Palast's book, pg 50. he also provides a screenshot of one page of the purge list on pg 55.
the reason the purge list was so faulty was that they reduced the required accuracy rate. if you had the same birthdate as a convicted felon, and if you had a similar name (example: "Higginbotham, Randall J" vs. "Higginbotham, Sean David" and several first/last name matches with a missmatch for the middlename) you couldnt vote. if you look closely at the screenshot, you notice another problem: a black man named Thomas Cooper was convicted of a felony on January 30, 2007. because of this time-traveling felon, a white man named Thomas Alvin Cooper was prevented from voting.
typing looks like it's going to be a huge problem. "the fingers you have used to dial are too fat. To obtain a special dialing wand, please mash the keypad with your palm now."
while i hate marketing, i hate even more the fact that some companies market their products without giving any information whatsoever about the product (e.g. perfume). this would help.
but i still would never buy the cartridge unless it came with a deodorizer, like an ozone generator or something. there are certainly a lot more shitty odors out there than good ones. chances are, that.ODR attachment in your inbox is not going to make you happy.
browsers should have an option to leave "Referer" flags empty in the HTTP protocol. this would obviously cause some errors when browsing pages that only allow links to themselves, so it would probably have to be something that could easily, and quickly, be switched On/Off if youre getting undesirable behavior.
It places many left-wing leaders in the right, such as Tony Blair.
i think you're confused by the name "Labour Party". it's an insanely common mistake, because the party has only been right-of-center for a few years (hence the nickname "New Labour Party" as opposed to just plain old "Labour Party"). after Blair took it over, the party took a drastic shift to the right (i guess Blair figured it would be easier to change the party rather than beat it (i sometimes wonder if that's what happened to the US Democratic Party)). i'm not entirely familiar with Blair's personal values, however i would be shocked if he was left-of-center (after all, he's friends with GWB [arguably the furthest right president the US has ever had]).
as for Mandela, i wouldnt be surprised if he was authoritarian.
Sharon is like Hitler? You are starting to sound rather antisemitic.
wow. i admit that i have a prejudice against Israel, however (unless it's subconscious) i have nothing against any particular religion (though i am against religion in general). furthermore, it's narrow-minded and dangerous to assume that a distaste for a person in a particular group implies a distaste for the entire group. i dont like sharon, a human, but that doesnt mean i dont like humans.
the two look prettyclose to me (politicalcompass.org, click on "Analysis -> View the analysis") unless my eyes are playing tricks on me. the only others who are closer to hitler are ariel sharon and Yasser Arafat.
actually, last time i checked, it was corporations that worked in international trade, not people. granted, in the US, corporations are legally considered "persons" (thanks to the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which was supposed* to give equal rights to blacks), however i assume the author meant living, breathing humans, and not "artificial persons".
*"...of the cases in this Court in which the Fourteenth Amendment was applied during the first fifty years after its adoption, less than one-half of one per cent invoked it in protection of the negro race, and more than fifty per cent asked that its benefits be extended to corporations."
~Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black
this gave corporations all the legal rights guaranteed to humans (which marked the beginning of free trade in the US). it's interesting to note that at no point did the human population of the US ever vote to allow corporations these rights. it was not until after the 14th Amendment was already ratified that it was publicly announced that it would be applied to corporations.
is anyone else worried that, if the spirit doesnt wake up soon, this project might be a large waste of money? pretty pictures of rocks are all well and good, but they're not worth the money that was put into this.
if i dont see pictures of little green men soon, ima stop paying my taxes.
i guess this means they're gonna tear down the elevated expressway (the road we used to use before the big dig). it's too bad too. as ugly as the road was, it was a pretty scenic route. you could see large parts of boston. i remember being scared shitless the first time i went on the upper deck, when i was a little kid; it's fairly high up.
there are some articles about it here and here. and there's plenty more if you searchfor it.
the abcnews article says that the internal clock is reset by visual light cues from the sun, and that blind people are more susceptible to falling into a 25-hour rhythm.
human internal clock-day is 25 hours
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in his book Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software, Steven Johnson says that, for some reason, human's internal clock is based on a day 25 hours long. this clock is reset every morning when you wake up. this explains why i tend to get tired an hour later each day, until i force myself to correct it.
this would probably mean living on Mars would feel more natural than on Earth.
seeing as how this comes from an editor of the Independent, it has credibility, however he is merely repeating something bin Laden said. and the fox news article just references fisk. so we're taking this right from the horse's mouth.
why should i not trust anything bin Laden says elsewhere, and trust him here?
there are those of us who raise the bin Laden-CIA connection to say that "we were once his friends, so it's hypocritical to go after him now"; and there are those of us who raise it to say "we were once his friends, how do you know we're not anymore?" his quote is a credible argument against only the former theory.
a detailed body count is here. here. the current number is 7935-9766. most of the large numbers are air raids, but a significant number are gunfire, which could be by the coalition or by Iraqi forces.
we've heard the testimony from metallica and dr. dre about how they've lost their homes and cars and have to live on the streets, but have you heard from the indie scene?
during the days of napster and audiogalaxy the indie scene was booming. i know because i donwloaded an album or two every day. i got music from bands you've never, and i had never, heard of. soon i began going to concerts every weekend, where i'd buy on average 1 album and 1 t-shit each show. depending on the record label, the money from the album probably never made it back to the band, however the $10-$12 for the tshit, and the money for the concert ticket went directly into the bands pocket. as you can see, at least in my case, my piracy was leading to more money for the indie music scene.
since audogalaxy was murdered, i have literally purchashed less than 10 albums (remember, i purchased at least 1 per week before that). and these albums are not indie; in fact you've probably heard of every one of them. in my opinion, there is no indie music scene anymore, because there is no way of finding it.
the only musicians who benefit from enforcing anti-piracy laws are the musicians who dont need the money. the musicians struggling to get their music heard, the ones who someday could be the fat-cats rolling in dough, are the ones who lose money, because they lose fans.
i believed it was about oil until i read more Chomsky. he has convinced me that oil is but another bonus. it's really just about power.
however, there is the fact that the war on Iraq began 2 weeks ahead of schedule because they saw an opportunity to secure the oil fields.
in addition, the first time the bush administration talked about attacking Iraq was September 13, 2001, 2 days after 9/11 (read Bob Woodward's Bush at War, 2002, Simon & Schuster); so obviously it's not like they found evidence of ties between the al Qaeda and Saddam and then decided to attack. they were already going to.
and, to comment on your second link, the article talks about the the Iraqi terrorist training camp Salman Pak. this is quite possibly the most hypocritical justification for war the US has ever used. the US has a terrorist training camp in Fort Benning, Georgia called the "School of the Americas", aka the "School of the Assassins." it's graduates have gone on to commit massacres, terrorism, assassination, torture, rape, and kidnapping, mainly in Latin America, targeting educators, union organizers, religious workers, student leaders, etc. the SOA was originally in Panama until 1984, when it was kicked out for being "the biggest base for destabilization in Latin America."
now, if you still believe that the US intends to eradicate terrorism, then could you explain why it maintains relationships with the most brutal terrorist states on earth? (examples are Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Indonesia, Haiti, Guatemala, Colombia, etc).
and could you explain why it not only supports terrorism but commits it? the US is the only country ever to be condemned by the World Court for international terrorism. this occurred in the 1980's, when the US attacked Nicaragua. the World Court ordered the US to cease their attack and to pay substantial reparations for the damage it had done, which included a civilian death count in the tens of thousands. the US refused and the attacks escalated. immediately following this, the UN Security Council proposed a resolution calling for all States to adhere to international law. the US, alone, veoted the resolution. then, the UN General Assembly (which includes about 200 countries) passed the same resolution, with only the US and Israel voting "no".
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yes, but not all our buildings have wireless. i know the project center building doesnt, and the buildings around it probably dont either.
the phone was (allegedly) hooked up to a machine outside the building. the information (speed of ball, speed of wheel, location of ball, etc) was passed to the machine, which made a prediction of the sector (not the actual slot) the ball would land in, and fed that sector back to the phone.
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the maker (Mystique) made several other games that used the same characters. the plot was always the same: make it across the screen, insert youself into the woman, and hit the buttons really really fast (humping).
caffeine can kill you if you have an ulcer in you stomach. of course, the chances are about 1 in a billion. pot smokers know this. they have built up a defense that includes figuring out all the common foods that can kill you.
raw potatoes can kill you too. that one's a lot more common.
Greg Palast's book, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, documents this in detail.
one of the most interesting parts is an interview he had with Clayton Roberts, director of Florida's Division of Elections. Just after Roberts sat down to talk with Palast, he noticed a document labeled "CONFIDENTIAL". He immediately jumped up, ripped off his microphone, ran into his office, and slammed the door. the document said that DBT (ChoicePoint) would be paid $2.3 million for their purge lists and "manual verification using telephone calls and statistical sampling" [quoted from the document].
this was incriminating because Roberts and Secretary of State Katherine Harris had testified under oath to the US Civil Rights Commission that it was not DBT's job to verify the accuracy of the purge list; it was up to the county elections supervisors.
a photocopy of the confidential document is provided in Palast's book, pg 50. he also provides a screenshot of one page of the purge list on pg 55.
the reason the purge list was so faulty was that they reduced the required accuracy rate. if you had the same birthdate as a convicted felon, and if you had a similar name (example: "Higginbotham, Randall J" vs. "Higginbotham, Sean David" and several first/last name matches with a missmatch for the middlename) you couldnt vote. if you look closely at the screenshot, you notice another problem: a black man named Thomas Cooper was convicted of a felony on January 30, 2007. because of this time-traveling felon, a white man named Thomas Alvin Cooper was prevented from voting.
typing looks like it's going to be a huge problem. "the fingers you have used to dial are too fat. To obtain a special dialing wand, please mash the keypad with your palm now."
while i hate marketing, i hate even more the fact that some companies market their products without giving any information whatsoever about the product (e.g. perfume). this would help.
.ODR attachment in your inbox is not going to make you happy.
but i still would never buy the cartridge unless it came with a deodorizer, like an ozone generator or something. there are certainly a lot more shitty odors out there than good ones. chances are, that
"When i last nodded off, there was something called the Sherman Antitrust Act." ~Gore Vidal
browsers should have an option to leave "Referer" flags empty in the HTTP protocol. this would obviously cause some errors when browsing pages that only allow links to themselves, so it would probably have to be something that could easily, and quickly, be switched On/Off if youre getting undesirable behavior.
It places many left-wing leaders in the right, such as Tony Blair.
i think you're confused by the name "Labour Party". it's an insanely common mistake, because the party has only been right-of-center for a few years (hence the nickname "New Labour Party" as opposed to just plain old "Labour Party"). after Blair took it over, the party took a drastic shift to the right (i guess Blair figured it would be easier to change the party rather than beat it (i sometimes wonder if that's what happened to the US Democratic Party)). i'm not entirely familiar with Blair's personal values, however i would be shocked if he was left-of-center (after all, he's friends with GWB [arguably the furthest right president the US has ever had]).
as for Mandela, i wouldnt be surprised if he was authoritarian.
Sharon is like Hitler? You are starting to sound rather antisemitic.
wow. i admit that i have a prejudice against Israel, however (unless it's subconscious) i have nothing against any particular religion (though i am against religion in general). furthermore, it's narrow-minded and dangerous to assume that a distaste for a person in a particular group implies a distaste for the entire group. i dont like sharon, a human, but that doesnt mean i dont like humans.
If Bush is just like Hitler
the two look pretty close to me (politicalcompass.org, click on "Analysis -> View the analysis") unless my eyes are playing tricks on me. the only others who are closer to hitler are ariel sharon and Yasser Arafat.
actually, last time i checked, it was corporations that worked in international trade, not people. granted, in the US, corporations are legally considered "persons" (thanks to the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which was supposed* to give equal rights to blacks), however i assume the author meant living, breathing humans, and not "artificial persons".
*"...of the cases in this Court in which the Fourteenth Amendment was applied during the first fifty years after its adoption, less than one-half of one per cent invoked it in protection of the negro race, and more than fifty per cent asked that its benefits be extended to corporations."
~Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black
this gave corporations all the legal rights guaranteed to humans (which marked the beginning of free trade in the US). it's interesting to note that at no point did the human population of the US ever vote to allow corporations these rights. it was not until after the 14th Amendment was already ratified that it was publicly announced that it would be applied to corporations.
is anyone else worried that, if the spirit doesnt wake up soon, this project might be a large waste of money? pretty pictures of rocks are all well and good, but they're not worth the money that was put into this.
if i dont see pictures of little green men soon, ima stop paying my taxes.
i told my GF i wanted this, and she was like "Why, because it's big?", "...yeah..." "Are you trying to compensate for anything?"
5 lanes (3 each direction).
i'm slightly confused. is it a zipper lane?
i guess this means they're gonna tear down the elevated expressway (the road we used to use before the big dig). it's too bad too. as ugly as the road was, it was a pretty scenic route. you could see large parts of boston. i remember being scared shitless the first time i went on the upper deck, when i was a little kid; it's fairly high up.
i'll miss the old gal.
i live about an hour from boston, and i know the northbound lanes have been open for a while now. this means that the entire thing is open now.
there are some articles about it here and here. and there's plenty more if you searchfor it.
the abcnews article says that the internal clock is reset by visual light cues from the sun, and that blind people are more susceptible to falling into a 25-hour rhythm.
in his book Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software, Steven Johnson says that, for some reason, human's internal clock is based on a day 25 hours long. this clock is reset every morning when you wake up. this explains why i tend to get tired an hour later each day, until i force myself to correct it.
this would probably mean living on Mars would feel more natural than on Earth.
seeing as how this comes from an editor of the Independent, it has credibility, however he is merely repeating something bin Laden said. and the fox news article just references fisk. so we're taking this right from the horse's mouth.
why should i not trust anything bin Laden says elsewhere, and trust him here?
there are those of us who raise the bin Laden-CIA connection to say that "we were once his friends, so it's hypocritical to go after him now"; and there are those of us who raise it to say "we were once his friends, how do you know we're not anymore?" his quote is a credible argument against only the former theory.
a detailed body count is here. here. the current number is 7935-9766. most of the large numbers are air raids, but a significant number are gunfire, which could be by the coalition or by Iraqi forces.
we've heard the testimony from metallica and dr. dre about how they've lost their homes and cars and have to live on the streets, but have you heard from the indie scene?
during the days of napster and audiogalaxy the indie scene was booming. i know because i donwloaded an album or two every day. i got music from bands you've never, and i had never, heard of. soon i began going to concerts every weekend, where i'd buy on average 1 album and 1 t-shit each show. depending on the record label, the money from the album probably never made it back to the band, however the $10-$12 for the tshit, and the money for the concert ticket went directly into the bands pocket. as you can see, at least in my case, my piracy was leading to more money for the indie music scene.
since audogalaxy was murdered, i have literally purchashed less than 10 albums (remember, i purchased at least 1 per week before that). and these albums are not indie; in fact you've probably heard of every one of them. in my opinion, there is no indie music scene anymore, because there is no way of finding it.
the only musicians who benefit from enforcing anti-piracy laws are the musicians who dont need the money. the musicians struggling to get their music heard, the ones who someday could be the fat-cats rolling in dough, are the ones who lose money, because they lose fans.
i believed it was about oil until i read more Chomsky. he has convinced me that oil is but another bonus. it's really just about power.
however, there is the fact that the war on Iraq began 2 weeks ahead of schedule because they saw an opportunity to secure the oil fields.
in addition, the first time the bush administration talked about attacking Iraq was September 13, 2001, 2 days after 9/11 (read Bob Woodward's Bush at War, 2002, Simon & Schuster); so obviously it's not like they found evidence of ties between the al Qaeda and Saddam and then decided to attack. they were already going to.
and, to comment on your second link, the article talks about the the Iraqi terrorist training camp Salman Pak. this is quite possibly the most hypocritical justification for war the US has ever used. the US has a terrorist training camp in Fort Benning, Georgia called the "School of the Americas", aka the "School of the Assassins." it's graduates have gone on to commit massacres, terrorism, assassination, torture, rape, and kidnapping, mainly in Latin America, targeting educators, union organizers, religious workers, student leaders, etc. the SOA was originally in Panama until 1984, when it was kicked out for being "the biggest base for destabilization in Latin America."
now, if you still believe that the US intends to eradicate terrorism, then could you explain why it maintains relationships with the most brutal terrorist states on earth? (examples are Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Indonesia, Haiti, Guatemala, Colombia, etc).
and could you explain why it not only supports terrorism but commits it? the US is the only country ever to be condemned by the World Court for international terrorism. this occurred in the 1980's, when the US attacked Nicaragua. the World Court ordered the US to cease their attack and to pay substantial reparations for the damage it had done, which included a civilian death count in the tens of thousands. the US refused and the attacks escalated. immediately following this, the UN Security Council proposed a resolution calling for all States to adhere to international law. the US, alone, veoted the resolution. then, the UN General Assembly (which includes about 200 countries) passed the same resolution, with only the US and Israel voting "no".
shall i continue?
what ever happened to square one? am i the only one that bought one of those things?
the lame thing came already messed up with directions on how to solve it. though, i didnt realize that until after i started playing with it.
the article is here