I'm an agnostic libertarian who votes Republican, does that make me a "fundy" as well?
I hate to sound like an asshole, but I think in a sense it does - you've become a "Functional Fundy". Your votes are going to power civil programs working directly against your stated political direction. The republicanism of smaller governments and improved personal responsibility has been cast to the winds in the wake of Reagans courtship of the religious right. Although, he at least had the sense to keep the governments size under control to a point.
If giving money to terrorist organisations such as the Tamil Tigers, Hamas or Al'Queda is considered to be effectively engaging in terrorism, your (vote) funding of the Republican Party can only be considered to be effectively engaging in its current social aims.
If you think the current Republicans can best serve the America you see for the future, then I think you should definitely vote for them - but perhaps you should rethink the labels you use to categorise yourself. And, for gods sake, if you don't see them building the America you want, you had better go and get your like minded republicans out of bed and to the voting booths, because you are rapidly becoming at risk of being marginalised and left without representation.
-- YLFI
Well, I think you're wrong. I wasn't a bow-hunter, but I was a member of an archery club with a bunch of them, and I have looked into the subject of pain a bit.
In general, the wound path through an animal shot with a razor sharp broadhead tends to cause very little gross physical trauma - hunters are trained to hit the animal in the broadside upper chest, and to attempt to penetrate the heart and lungs. The arrow tends to slice cleanly through tissue and arteries, with many animals, especially pigs, going back to whatever they were doing ( e.g. drinking, eating ) until bloodloss overtakes them and they collapse. Some years ago, Remington ( iirc ) attempted to introduce a spinning, tearing head that would cause gross physical trauma to the animal, accelerating the death from blood loss, but the invention failed to take off due to concerns about animal cruelty.
I don't necessarily approve ( after all, hunters occasionally screw up and strike bone or what-have-you ), but I don't think the pain in question is as great as it might seem at first blush. The hunters I met and practiced with seemed decent people, and concerned about the environment and it's inhabitants. That's my two cents, anyway.
Move to Australia. Defacing past or current currency without the permission of the Reserve Bank by an individual is punishable by an A$5,000 fine or imprisonment for 2 years, or both. This is part of the Crimes ( Currency ) act of 1981.
This is very true - Japan is both obsessed with "collection" and with "vintage" objects and the idea of "historicity". I live in Japan, and nothing ever leaves the store shelves here... the price just goes... up. Case in point - the local toystore that has original NES games still on the shelf - and an original Virtual Boy, still in the wrap. There are huge boutiques for second hand collectibles like tin toys as well
I actually felt moved to retrieve my password to reply to this. They're not telling you, but they already have this! US Code 50, Chapter 36 ( Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ) allows the A.G. to initiate "emergency electronic surveillance" as long as they notify an appropriate judge and then report back to him within 72 hours with their paperwork completed by the DoJ's army of lawyers ( have a look at section 1805 ). And as you alluded to, if the Judge declines the warrant on review, or the 72 hours expire without the paperwork filings, the gathered intelligence becomes inadmissable in a wide variety of legal situations.
I don't even live in the United States, and have no intention of ever practicing law there, and even I have heard of this, and was able to look it up and verify it myself.
Don't forget, 72 hours was judged adequete time by enough of the government to get this signed into law in 1978! Don't let people argue that an even better equipped and experienced DoJ needs "more time".
Another thing not to do? Don't let this one get swept under the rug - without the oversight provided by warrants for domestic surveillance, the government is opening the door for the kinds of abuses that were inflicted on MLK and others.
Little guy inventor? Didn't Eolas buy this patent off someone else in the first place? Also, as I understand it, Eolas has no stake in the browser market - the patent lies fallow in their hands except for licensing use. If it's true, I don't call that laudable, I call it an abuse of the system.
It's actually better still. The console comes with a flash cartridge, which the players can take to N-authorised retailers to load with games - as this cuts out the "cartridge manufacturing" side of things, and so the games can cost less too. And of course, N can ship timebombed demos, etc, resell the same product to the same consumer over and over and so on and so forth.
I think the iQue is a really interesting idea - I'll be watching to see if it ever jumps out of China, say to Japan or perhaps Brazil, which has also had a market for cut-price consoles.
Hmm, thank you for your well thought out reply. I can't really offer any condolence on the point you make ( I understand it though - I bought two pairs of Samba de Amigo controllers for the Dreamcast - multiplayer is the reason to own a console IMHO, and it can get expensive ), but I do recall that there was some commentary that with 90% of the internal electronics in the "rod" ( how much electronic infrastructure is in the average joypad anyway? ), they'd be able to make the shells cheap enough to bundle with the games without distorting the price too much. Fingers crossed, I'll be there in Tokyo to pick one up on launch day, and, fingers crossed again, I hope we can all have some fun with it.
Poker, oddly, stands almost alone as one of the few gambling games where ability can sway the long term outcome to favour a given player. But you'll need to be patient when the random factor doesn't seem to be going your way.
You ( slashdotters) keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. The protection of parody in the United States is because parody is supposed to exercise a criticism of the original work, and is using the mechanism of ironic similarity to exercise that criticism. If I understand 17 USC 107 correctly, it is the act of criticism itself that is protected.
On the other hand, I'm sure some will argue that anything performed by the BBC Orchestra is an ironic criticism of the original composer, if not the work in question.
These things are called "Nintendo DS", not "Gameboy DS". People are already throwing packets against them via wifi ( look up "WifiMe" ), but the problem is that images received over wifi have to be signed. At the moment, apart from images ripped from the air, all anyone has is a small program that seems to reposition the instruction pointer at the beginning of the GBA cartridge slot ( so in effect, you can put DS code on a GBA flash card and boot it that way ). I assume this bootloader was signed by an insider, or that the program is so short it creates a degenerate case in the signing mechanism.
I believe there's a firmware hack that removes the requirement for the image to be signed, but this is all possible now. This dongle, which I'll wait for official word from N on, doesn't really bring anything new to the table.
Never mind that, surely in America the speech of the end purchasers would have been protected by First Sale Doctrine? I would have thought Raincoast's only recourse would be against the actual bookstore.
You might be able to avoid the cramp in your hand by having a lower 'thumb position'. Some people seem to use a really high "attack", which gets tiring soon. Take your lanyard, loop it left around the back of the screen, then bring it back to the right through the gap between the screens, so it's abutted with the left hinge. I had an ascii diagram that showed this quite clearly, but, du-dum, lameness filter.
I find it easiest to wear the thumb-stylus on the side of my thumb so that it's actually pressing down with the short edge. This allows me to use it with very little downwards force, with good mobility. In this position, my hand is naturally closed around the housing - but I have big hands, ymmv.
Looking forward to picking up Meteos when I hit Japan in a few weeks. It's not coming out here in Pacific Region for ages.
I agree that limiting maneuverability acceleration is a risk to drivers, and conseuqently, really, really dumb.
A better solution would be a 'soft wall' for acceleration - after 10s over the limit, the car attempts to exponentially throttle down in opposition to the pedal.
Books can be heavy, and hence expensive to ship as well. I recently mailed my old copy of "From Hell" to someone, and it didn't come out that much cheaper than buying a fresh copy.
What happens when two consenting homosexual adults get railroaded by some backwater anti-sodomy laws?
While I agree with your concern, I thought it was interesting that the D.C. notices included the phrase The District of Columbia requires everyone who has been convicted of a sex offense -- except for misdemeanors against adults or sexual conduct between consenting adults -- to register as a sex offender. [ emphasis mine ].
Is this an implicit admission that interaction between consenting adults should be de facto legal, or just a filtering step because, well, they're not going to go out looking for new "victims"?
"Platonic", you ignorant poltroon! A "plutonic" relationship would be one you had with an igneous rock formed by solidification at considerable depth beneath the earth's surface.
`Discrete` is an adjective describing things that are divided into distinct chunks. `Discreet` is an adjective describing things that are unobtrusive, careful, circumspect. These words share a root, but are distinct.
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I'm an agnostic libertarian who votes Republican, does that make me a "fundy" as well? I hate to sound like an asshole, but I think in a sense it does - you've become a "Functional Fundy". Your votes are going to power civil programs working directly against your stated political direction. The republicanism of smaller governments and improved personal responsibility has been cast to the winds in the wake of Reagans courtship of the religious right. Although, he at least had the sense to keep the governments size under control to a point. If giving money to terrorist organisations such as the Tamil Tigers, Hamas or Al'Queda is considered to be effectively engaging in terrorism, your (vote) funding of the Republican Party can only be considered to be effectively engaging in its current social aims. If you think the current Republicans can best serve the America you see for the future, then I think you should definitely vote for them - but perhaps you should rethink the labels you use to categorise yourself. And, for gods sake, if you don't see them building the America you want, you had better go and get your like minded republicans out of bed and to the voting booths, because you are rapidly becoming at risk of being marginalised and left without representation. -- YLFI
Well, I think you're wrong. I wasn't a bow-hunter, but I was a member of an archery club with a bunch of them, and I have looked into the subject of pain a bit.
In general, the wound path through an animal shot with a razor sharp broadhead tends to cause very little gross physical trauma - hunters are trained to hit the animal in the broadside upper chest, and to attempt to penetrate the heart and lungs. The arrow tends to slice cleanly through tissue and arteries, with many animals, especially pigs, going back to whatever they were doing ( e.g. drinking, eating ) until bloodloss overtakes them and they collapse. Some years ago, Remington ( iirc ) attempted to introduce a spinning, tearing head that would cause gross physical trauma to the animal, accelerating the death from blood loss, but the invention failed to take off due to concerns about animal cruelty.
I don't necessarily approve ( after all, hunters occasionally screw up and strike bone or what-have-you ), but I don't think the pain in question is as great as it might seem at first blush. The hunters I met and practiced with seemed decent people, and concerned about the environment and it's inhabitants. That's my two cents, anyway.
Move to Australia. Defacing past or current currency without the permission of the Reserve Bank by an individual is punishable by an A$5,000 fine or imprisonment for 2 years, or both. This is part of the Crimes ( Currency ) act of 1981.
I think it might be best to switch your internet over to "read only" mode for a while.
This is very true - Japan is both obsessed with "collection" and with "vintage" objects and the idea of "historicity". I live in Japan, and nothing ever leaves the store shelves here... the price just goes... up. Case in point - the local toystore that has original NES games still on the shelf - and an original Virtual Boy, still in the wrap. There are huge boutiques for second hand collectibles like tin toys as well
I actually felt moved to retrieve my password to reply to this. They're not telling you, but they already have this! US Code 50, Chapter 36 ( Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ) allows the A.G. to initiate "emergency electronic surveillance" as long as they notify an appropriate judge and then report back to him within 72 hours with their paperwork completed by the DoJ's army of lawyers ( have a look at section 1805 ). And as you alluded to, if the Judge declines the warrant on review, or the 72 hours expire without the paperwork filings, the gathered intelligence becomes inadmissable in a wide variety of legal situations.
I don't even live in the United States, and have no intention of ever practicing law there, and even I have heard of this, and was able to look it up and verify it myself.
Don't forget, 72 hours was judged adequete time by enough of the government to get this signed into law in 1978! Don't let people argue that an even better equipped and experienced DoJ needs "more time".
Another thing not to do? Don't let this one get swept under the rug - without the oversight provided by warrants for domestic surveillance, the government is opening the door for the kinds of abuses that were inflicted on MLK and others.
-- YLFI
MENDOOOOZAAAAAAAA!!!
Arguably, the apostrophe here denotes the removed letters from specifications. Amirite?
Little guy inventor? Didn't Eolas buy this patent off someone else in the first place? Also, as I understand it, Eolas has no stake in the browser market - the patent lies fallow in their hands except for licensing use. If it's true, I don't call that laudable, I call it an abuse of the system.
It's actually better still. The console comes with a flash cartridge, which the players can take to N-authorised retailers to load with games - as this cuts out the "cartridge manufacturing" side of things, and so the games can cost less too. And of course, N can ship timebombed demos, etc, resell the same product to the same consumer over and over and so on and so forth.
I think the iQue is a really interesting idea - I'll be watching to see if it ever jumps out of China, say to Japan or perhaps Brazil, which has also had a market for cut-price consoles.
Hmm, thank you for your well thought out reply. I can't really offer any condolence on the point you make ( I understand it though - I bought two pairs of Samba de Amigo controllers for the Dreamcast - multiplayer is the reason to own a console IMHO, and it can get expensive ), but I do recall that there was some commentary that with 90% of the internal electronics in the "rod" ( how much electronic infrastructure is in the average joypad anyway? ), they'd be able to make the shells cheap enough to bundle with the games without distorting the price too much. Fingers crossed, I'll be there in Tokyo to pick one up on launch day, and, fingers crossed again, I hope we can all have some fun with it.
I know this one. It was Clinton, right?
Poker, oddly, stands almost alone as one of the few gambling games where ability can sway the long term outcome to favour a given player. But you'll need to be patient when the random factor doesn't seem to be going your way.
I guess I should get started on that Manga adaption of "Atlas Shrugged", eh?
You ( slashdotters) keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. The protection of parody in the United States is because parody is supposed to exercise a criticism of the original work, and is using the mechanism of ironic similarity to exercise that criticism. If I understand 17 USC 107 correctly, it is the act of criticism itself that is protected.
On the other hand, I'm sure some will argue that anything performed by the BBC Orchestra is an ironic criticism of the original composer, if not the work in question.
YLFI, parody police.These things are called "Nintendo DS", not "Gameboy DS". People are already throwing packets against them via wifi ( look up "WifiMe" ), but the problem is that images received over wifi have to be signed. At the moment, apart from images ripped from the air, all anyone has is a small program that seems to reposition the instruction pointer at the beginning of the GBA cartridge slot ( so in effect, you can put DS code on a GBA flash card and boot it that way ). I assume this bootloader was signed by an insider, or that the program is so short it creates a degenerate case in the signing mechanism.
I believe there's a firmware hack that removes the requirement for the image to be signed, but this is all possible now. This dongle, which I'll wait for official word from N on, doesn't really bring anything new to the table.
I find it pleasing to my sensibilities that someone who claims to work in a bookstore cannot spell "per se".
Never mind that, surely in America the speech of the end purchasers would have been protected by First Sale Doctrine? I would have thought Raincoast's only recourse would be against the actual bookstore.
You might be able to avoid the cramp in your hand by having a lower 'thumb position'. Some people seem to use a really high "attack", which gets tiring soon. Take your lanyard, loop it left around the back of the screen, then bring it back to the right through the gap between the screens, so it's abutted with the left hinge. I had an ascii diagram that showed this quite clearly, but, du-dum, lameness filter.
I find it easiest to wear the thumb-stylus on the side of my thumb so that it's actually pressing down with the short edge. This allows me to use it with very little downwards force, with good mobility. In this position, my hand is naturally closed around the housing - but I have big hands, ymmv.
Looking forward to picking up Meteos when I hit Japan in a few weeks. It's not coming out here in Pacific Region for ages.
YLFII agree that limiting maneuverability acceleration is a risk to drivers, and conseuqently, really, really dumb.
A better solution would be a 'soft wall' for acceleration - after 10s over the limit, the car attempts to exponentially throttle down in opposition to the pedal.
Seems pretty obvious. Why aren't they doing this?
-- YLFIBooks can be heavy, and hence expensive to ship as well. I recently mailed my old copy of "From Hell" to someone, and it didn't come out that much cheaper than buying a fresh copy.
--YLFI
While I agree with your concern, I thought it was interesting that the D.C. notices included the phrase The District of Columbia requires everyone who has been convicted of a sex offense -- except for misdemeanors against adults or sexual conduct between consenting adults -- to register as a sex offender. [ emphasis mine ].
Is this an implicit admission that interaction between consenting adults should be de facto legal, or just a filtering step because, well, they're not going to go out looking for new "victims"?
God, there's a shining example of the law of fives if I ever saw one.
"Platonic", you ignorant poltroon! A "plutonic" relationship would be one you had with an igneous rock formed by solidification at considerable depth beneath the earth's surface.
`Discrete` is an adjective describing things that are divided into distinct chunks. `Discreet` is an adjective describing things that are unobtrusive, careful, circumspect. These words share a root, but are distinct.