I am less worried about their mutation as I am about the implications of engineering an enterprise at this level to *potentially* save a couple of hundred lives every year. I think we have bigger problems more deserving of the money that will be used to manufacture the spray in question. From what I read, the greatest danger is presented to the average consumer as cold cuts. However, the article fails to specify whether the "500 deaths per year" is national, continental, or global. My assumption would be that it is global, which raises the other eyebrow for me because of the sheer number of people who already cannot afford to eat, and this process is not going to be deployed on the cheap.
I just don't think (even if the number is 500/yr in the USA) that the expense is justified.
Having said that, I do agree with you wholeheartedly, that they have the capacity to mutate and this could be breeding another "super bug." I just do not think it is as important as the cost/benefit (ack, I just used marketspeak) issue.
I've got the mod points for it, but I seriously couldn't pass this up. You say you'd switch to Ubuntu? You are already in the minority!
You don't give a shit about Vista, but guess what? Microsoft doesn't give a shit about you! Whether you want to run Vista or not, you either will, or you will stop playing games. First of all, you will not drive the adoption of Vista, OEMs will. No new PCs without Vista installed. Regular, everyday, ignorant people who cannot grasp the difference between megabytes and megahertz. As the new system gains ground, developers will target XP less and less, and before too long, Microsoft will announce the end of the XP product lifecycle.
Microsoft has hedged its bets correctly: You are not about to quit gaming, so you will upgrade. Whether you want to or not, you will pay them for the privilege.
As for myself, I am only a casual gamer. And I do happen to run Ubuntu, which is more than capable of delivering more gaming capacity than I happen to need. I also periodically have to upgrade my operating system, due to security issues or end-of-life with the current edition. Such upgrades (thus far) have never impacted my hardware requirements, and they do not require me to buy a new PC or a license to upgrade for $150.
I cannot reply to your comment as a hardcore gamer, because that's not what I am. However, I am in a definite minority, and we have that much in common.
The US and A government claims itself to be Christian. Does that make it so? Not in the smallest.
I know GW Bush claims to be Christian, but when it comes down to the metal, Christ never said "Thou shalt invade foreign nations for economic gain" or anything of the like. Bush does not represent Christianity, though he claims to so do.
Christ said "turn the other cheek," not "If it suits you, declare war." Bush claims to represent Christian values and ends, but is not one smidgeon better than the terrorists he claims to oppose.
If you want a smear campaign, you need not worry. It is already there. If you want to examine reality? I wonder whether John Q. Public is capable of doing so without prejudice.
Interesting. Appreciate the information, though actually I did give MGS a try. I couldn't really get into it, though. I beat the psychokinetic guy and just stopped playing.
My mistake. Somehow or other, when I read it, I thought it was about the NES-- not the marketing drivel that it had spawned. Thanks. (seriously, it made sense in my head)
Wrong on so many levels. Being the fan of the original game that I am, I can tell you that no locks get shot off in the game, ever, at all. Solid Snake's "arsenal" (which, in my memory was varied and useful) was used to shoot up guards, guard dogs, blow up tanks, and the like. Locked doors were *always* opened via the use of various key cards (numbered 1-8). If at any time you approached a locked door without the appropriate key card as your active item, the door did not open. There was no lock to shoot off.
The later Metal Gear games? I did not like Snake's revenge, and never really played any of the Metal Gear Solid games... they might have lock-shooting action. But Metal Gear? I have to question the authority of the writer on this one, because as somebody else points out, simple game titles and publishers aren't even cited correctly.
It goes far deeper than this. Merely not using real names does not protect you from subpoenas, or demands for your ISP to keep records of where you go and what you do. Hell, anymore, subpoenas are optional. Welcome to the Indoctrinated States of America. Yes, where the children are taught to comply with "authority" at all cost.
Logically speaking, this is a fallacy. Morals are not justification for evil behaviour, they are justification for good behaviour. The fact that some people claim that their evil behaviour is somehow moral is simply not true. To them, it may be ethical, but that does not make it moral.
I suspect, though, that you were taking a broad stroke at organised religion (though I admit the possibility that you were not). Religion, like any number of other things, is often used as an excuse for war. I doubt it has ever actually been the *reason* for war. Again, I do realise that you might not be saying that, but it appears to be a fairly common (more appropriately, unfairly common) belief. Whether Ghengis Khan went to church every week would not change his desire for more wealth and more women.
Somehow (even with the preview) I forgot to add that I am not in support of this system. It just doesn't mean half of what the doomsayers are claiming.
So does he. Since the message was from him to you, he is legally in possession of the porn.
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I agree that this is a serious problem. It's also easy to solve.
Instead of giving an exact time for the auction's end, give a fuzzy time (This auction will end in 3 days). Then, on the last day, never give an exact time (This auction will end between 1:30pm and 2:00pm), where 1:30 would have been the time you had initially posted the item for sale. You get a few free minutes of publicity on your item, and nobody knows when the auction ends, which would change sniping into a matter of pure luck.
I respectfully disagree. One case is NOT too many. It is a tragedy.
Ask yourself please: At what point are you willing to sacrifice liberty and privacy to prevent "one case" of child abuse?
If you said invading the privacy of every citizen of the United States of America, then I would claim in turn that you voted for Bush.
One of the quotes attributed (perhaps falsely, but is still a great quote) to Benjamin Franklin is "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
My point is that it is indeed a tragedy when parents do not rise to their task of parenting, or that mistakes are made with all good intention. But I don't want the NSA wiretapping my phone and illegally monitoring my internet activity because your illegitimate daughter is positioning herself to be sexually assaulted via the WWW. If you have nothing to hide, please give me live camera feeds to every room in your house.
None of my business what you're doing? Fucking right, it's not. It's none of the government's business either.
Do not mistake the phrase "even one is too many" for "one is a tragedy."
And this would be a grand topic to moderate, though I could not help but instead ask about this term, "registered sex offender." I mean, people have to register for this nowadays? Is there some central office, or is it by city or state, that you walk into and say "Hi, I'd like to register myself as a sex offender" to expedite the procedure? Can one register by mail?
And apparently, SlashCode assumes that since I chose to be concise, that I must be a script or robot, and forces me to wait longer before clicking 'Submit.' Interesting.
The "H" in the popular profanity "Jesus H. Christ" does not stand for "Harold." It stands for "Horatio." For pointing this out, I am an ass, but you are the idiot.
Interesting. Sure, some of the more irksome "integrated" features of GAIM may not work, but file transfers work just fine for me (and I don't even run Windows(tm)).
Not necessarily. Having the PS1 hardware present meant that PS2 games could take advantage of it. That does not ipmly that without that hardware that the PS2 games would be "useless."
But who am I to argue? To me, backward compatibility means only one thing: that I have to pay more if I want to play next year's games. After all, I already possess the hardware to play the games of this (and yester) year.
So... do I have nintendos NES hooked up? Not right now, but if I find myself aching for some Super Mario Bros 2 action, then yeah, i can make that happen. it's only slightly inconvenient, but saves me hundreds of dollars. But then again, saving you money isn't really on "their" agenda, now, is it?
This will kill my karma, but you are probably right.
As people go through and re-mod child posts, they will run out of mod points. But then what? There will be so many child posts that nobody has enough mod points to change their minds that many times. Everybody loses! Or something. Ooh, shiny. Back later.
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I am less worried about their mutation as I am about the implications of engineering an enterprise at this level to *potentially* save a couple of hundred lives every year. I think we have bigger problems more deserving of the money that will be used to manufacture the spray in question. From what I read, the greatest danger is presented to the average consumer as cold cuts. However, the article fails to specify whether the "500 deaths per year" is national, continental, or global. My assumption would be that it is global, which raises the other eyebrow for me because of the sheer number of people who already cannot afford to eat, and this process is not going to be deployed on the cheap.
I just don't think (even if the number is 500/yr in the USA) that the expense is justified.
Having said that, I do agree with you wholeheartedly, that they have the capacity to mutate and this could be breeding another "super bug." I just do not think it is as important as the cost/benefit (ack, I just used marketspeak) issue.
It was also sci-fi, which I might remind you is not hugely popular with the ladies.
I've got the mod points for it, but I seriously couldn't pass this up. You say you'd switch to Ubuntu? You are already in the minority!
You don't give a shit about Vista, but guess what? Microsoft doesn't give a shit about you! Whether you want to run Vista or not, you either will, or you will stop playing games. First of all, you will not drive the adoption of Vista, OEMs will. No new PCs without Vista installed. Regular, everyday, ignorant people who cannot grasp the difference between megabytes and megahertz. As the new system gains ground, developers will target XP less and less, and before too long, Microsoft will announce the end of the XP product lifecycle.
Microsoft has hedged its bets correctly: You are not about to quit gaming, so you will upgrade. Whether you want to or not, you will pay them for the privilege.
As for myself, I am only a casual gamer. And I do happen to run Ubuntu, which is more than capable of delivering more gaming capacity than I happen to need. I also periodically have to upgrade my operating system, due to security issues or end-of-life with the current edition. Such upgrades (thus far) have never impacted my hardware requirements, and they do not require me to buy a new PC or a license to upgrade for $150.
I cannot reply to your comment as a hardcore gamer, because that's not what I am. However, I am in a definite minority, and we have that much in common.
The US and A government claims itself to be Christian. Does that make it so? Not in the smallest.
I know GW Bush claims to be Christian, but when it comes down to the metal, Christ never said "Thou shalt invade foreign nations for economic gain" or anything of the like. Bush does not represent Christianity, though he claims to so do.
Christ said "turn the other cheek," not "If it suits you, declare war." Bush claims to represent Christian values and ends, but is not one smidgeon better than the terrorists he claims to oppose.
If you want a smear campaign, you need not worry. It is already there. If you want to examine reality? I wonder whether John Q. Public is capable of doing so without prejudice.
Interesting. Appreciate the information, though actually I did give MGS a try. I couldn't really get into it, though. I beat the psychokinetic guy and just stopped playing.
My mistake. Somehow or other, when I read it, I thought it was about the NES-- not the marketing drivel that it had spawned. Thanks. (seriously, it made sense in my head)
Wrong on so many levels. Being the fan of the original game that I am, I can tell you that no locks get shot off in the game, ever, at all. Solid Snake's "arsenal" (which, in my memory was varied and useful) was used to shoot up guards, guard dogs, blow up tanks, and the like. Locked doors were *always* opened via the use of various key cards (numbered 1-8). If at any time you approached a locked door without the appropriate key card as your active item, the door did not open. There was no lock to shoot off.
The later Metal Gear games? I did not like Snake's revenge, and never really played any of the Metal Gear Solid games... they might have lock-shooting action. But Metal Gear? I have to question the authority of the writer on this one, because as somebody else points out, simple game titles and publishers aren't even cited correctly.
It goes far deeper than this. Merely not using real names does not protect you from subpoenas, or demands for your ISP to keep records of where you go and what you do. Hell, anymore, subpoenas are optional. Welcome to the Indoctrinated States of America. Yes, where the children are taught to comply with "authority" at all cost.
Logically speaking, this is a fallacy. Morals are not justification for evil behaviour, they are justification for good behaviour. The fact that some people claim that their evil behaviour is somehow moral is simply not true. To them, it may be ethical, but that does not make it moral. I suspect, though, that you were taking a broad stroke at organised religion (though I admit the possibility that you were not). Religion, like any number of other things, is often used as an excuse for war. I doubt it has ever actually been the *reason* for war. Again, I do realise that you might not be saying that, but it appears to be a fairly common (more appropriately, unfairly common) belief. Whether Ghengis Khan went to church every week would not change his desire for more wealth and more women.
Somehow (even with the preview) I forgot to add that I am not in support of this system. It just doesn't mean half of what the doomsayers are claiming.
So does he. Since the message was from him to you, he is legally in possession of the porn.
I agree that this is a serious problem. It's also easy to solve.
Instead of giving an exact time for the auction's end, give a fuzzy time (This auction will end in 3 days). Then, on the last day, never give an exact time (This auction will end between 1:30pm and 2:00pm), where 1:30 would have been the time you had initially posted the item for sale. You get a few free minutes of publicity on your item, and nobody knows when the auction ends, which would change sniping into a matter of pure luck.
I respectfully disagree. One case is NOT too many. It is a tragedy.
Ask yourself please: At what point are you willing to sacrifice liberty and privacy to prevent "one case" of child abuse?
If you said invading the privacy of every citizen of the United States of America, then I would claim in turn that you voted for Bush.
One of the quotes attributed (perhaps falsely, but is still a great quote) to Benjamin Franklin is "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
My point is that it is indeed a tragedy when parents do not rise to their task of parenting, or that mistakes are made with all good intention. But I don't want the NSA wiretapping my phone and illegally monitoring my internet activity because your illegitimate daughter is positioning herself to be sexually assaulted via the WWW. If you have nothing to hide, please give me live camera feeds to every room in your house.
None of my business what you're doing? Fucking right, it's not. It's none of the government's business either.
Do not mistake the phrase "even one is too many" for "one is a tragedy."
And this would be a grand topic to moderate, though I could not help but instead ask about this term, "registered sex offender." I mean, people have to register for this nowadays? Is there some central office, or is it by city or state, that you walk into and say "Hi, I'd like to register myself as a sex offender" to expedite the procedure? Can one register by mail?
You underestimate the power of lobbying.
And apparently, SlashCode assumes that since I chose to be concise, that I must be a script or robot, and forces me to wait longer before clicking 'Submit.' Interesting.
The "H" in the popular profanity "Jesus H. Christ" does not stand for "Harold." It stands for "Horatio." For pointing this out, I am an ass, but you are the idiot.
Interesting. Sure, some of the more irksome "integrated" features of GAIM may not work, but file transfers work just fine for me (and I don't even run Windows(tm)).
Bonus negative points for the accidental double post. Could not even *begin* to imagine how I managed to pull that off. At any rate....
Hah, and it was only on the FOURTH proofread that I noticed that I misspelled "imply".
Not necessarily. Having the PS1 hardware present meant that PS2 games could take advantage of it. That does not ipmly that without that hardware that the PS2 games would be "useless."
But who am I to argue? To me, backward compatibility means only one thing: that I have to pay more if I want to play next year's games. After all, I already possess the hardware to play the games of this (and yester) year.
So... do I have nintendos NES hooked up? Not right now, but if I find myself aching for some Super Mario Bros 2 action, then yeah, i can make that happen. it's only slightly inconvenient, but saves me hundreds of dollars. But then again, saving you money isn't really on "their" agenda, now, is it?
Obviously, to have the very best bugs.
While I will admit to being boozy, I am not a gamer (per se, though there was a time I would spend 16 hours per day on such persuits).
...Pac-Man.
I think the better comparison would be between Katamari Damacy and
*ducks*
This will kill my karma, but you are probably right.
As people go through and re-mod child posts, they will run out of mod points. But then what? There will be so many child posts that nobody has enough mod points to change their minds that many times. Everybody loses! Or something. Ooh, shiny. Back later.
$ sudo bash -c 'echo "Apr 15 22:05:41 linux-black sudo: person_you_hate : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/boss ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/rm -rf /path/to/the/bosses/files" >> /path/to/the/log'
you do, of course, realise, that this command will be appended to your freshly deleted log?