And that, my friends, is why Sony and Nintendo have a formidable enemy in Microsoft. Neither company has the cash reserves to compete with Microsoft on such an unlevel playing field, and neither one seems likely to survive in the video game arena for long without help from Uncle Sam.
I'm afraid you are mistaken about a great many things. This is one arena where Sony could crush MSFT like a bug. They made a nice profit on every single PS2 produced. They have made back their development and production costs several times over at this point. They can drop the PS2 down to cost and not worry at all about it. Even after this price drop they are still making money off of the console. And Sony may not have the liquid cash that MSFT does, but they have an empire that spans across MANY MANY markets. And if MSFT pisses them off, you many not see any more Sony PCs with Windows on them. I think Sony could easily put together a deal with Redhat or someone else to get a customized version of Linux on their systems. Sony has PLENTY of clout in many marketplaces ranging from consumer electronics to who knows what else. Nintendo on the other hand may take a small loss in sales to the Xbox, but I doubt it will affect their bottom line all that much. I personally believe that there isn't room in the market for the Xbox. It's targetted directly at the population segment that the PS2 is targetting, and that market segment isn't going to abandon Sony for anything less than a MASSIVE improvement in both system performance and gameplay. The Xbox just ain't got it. Maybe by the time MSFT figures out the console game in 5-10 years Sony will have begun a decline and opened up a spot for the Xbox^2 or whatever, but until then I'm sticking to my PS/PS2.
The one nice advantage to case sensitivity is when 2 or 3 items have the same first few letters. In that case having different capitalization in those letters can speed up your tab completion... Otherwise you're right, I don't see an advantage.
If you install OSX with UFS (Unix Filesystem) you get the case sensitivity. I dunno if you miss out on features that are in the other filesystem... But you would get what you wanted.
This confirms the worries I have seen here over and over: That lawmakers believe the only solution to a problem is more laws. It is completely inconceiveable to them that a problem may exist that is not best solved by increased legislation.
These people are Lawmakers. That is their profession. They MAKE LAWS, that's what they do. If someone brings a problem to them of course they are going to look at it from the viewpoint of what laws should be passed if any to solve the problem. Apparently the concensus here was that no new laws would do anything to alleviate this problem. So no, they didn't decide they needed new legislation.
There was a time when the larger culture largely supported parents in their goal of protecting their children - sadly that is no longer the case.
There was also a time when you wouldn't get arrested and sued for disciplining someone elses child if they were doing something crazy. Nowadays if you so much as ask a child to stop kicking you in the leg in the grocery store their parents will bitch at you up and down about "He's only a kid! He doesn't know better! Leave him alone!". Well NO SHIT he doesn't know better! That's why I told him to stop you moron! I'm certainly not going to lend any effort to helping keep their kids safe if they are just going to raise undisciplined little hellbeasts.
I'm not saying Child Porn laws aren't necessary, I'm saying you can't just say 'Child porn is illegal' and let it go at that. And you can't enforce US laws against people in other countries who aren't breaking any of their countries laws. The US DOES NOT rule the world, they do not make laws for every country on the planet and they should stop trying.
Conclusively define 'Child Porn' by giving me an age beyond which someone is no longer considered a Child.
The plain fact of the matter is that in many places around the world the age of consent ranges from 12 years old up to 18 years old. So is a 14 year old considered Child porn? Where? By who? Should the creator be judged by the standards of every community which is capable of viewing the material or should they be held accountable to the standards of the community which they actually reside in? Your assertion is vague and unfounded. Go away...
Huh? I'm 22, I'm married. I hate children. I'm not a proponent of giving children all of the general rights of adulthood, I explicitly stated CIVIL rights. Oh, and as for Or when was the last time a group of children presented a worthwhile arguement or even used their freedom of speech in a constructive way? I will lend my $.02 and say that for every 1 that does there are hundreds who do not.
How many ADULTS can present a worthwhile argument for their right to free speach? Far too few. But just because someone is incapable of enumerating their rights effectively does not mean those rights do not apply to them.
And decidedly a 13 year old today is far less mentally and emotionally mature than they were back then... simply because back then they had to grow up fast.
The simple fact is that today children are far less capable of dealing with the physical and emotional burdens of a sexual relationship and child-rearing, and kids shouldn't have to be. Let them be kids for crying out loud!
Of course, this sucks ass for the kids since they are maturing physically much faster than the were a hundred years ago. There are girls as young as 8 years old developing breasts and going through puberty. Part of the blame rests with the meat heavy, hormone rich diet they consume. So we're breeding generations of children that become interested in sex much earlier than they used to, but are being taught far less about sex than they once were. So maybe you SHOULD teach your 9 year old about sex, since she looks like a 15 year old, so all of the 17 year old guys are going to be hitting on her... Might be a good idea if she knows what they mean when they want to play "doctor"....
Oh I see... But adults are Ok to sacrifice since they are worthless globs of matter. As opposed to the precious and angelic children, right? Children are easily replaceable, mostly useless, and quit annoying. Not to mention completely selfish by default. Don't go preaching about how 'precious' children are. I'm against underage pornography, but not because I give a flying fuck about the kids specifically. I don't like to see anyone hurt, be they child or adult. I'm also against exploitave adult pornography where the subject is not fully willing to participate. There should be no lesser or greater amount of civil rights extended to children than adults.
I work for a place in Georgia which has part of the company in California. The California branch sent us half a dozen huge rackmount servers... packed in T-shirts. Apparently the company out there had bought 3,000 t-shirts during the dotcom boom, and had nothing to do with them now. So they were using them as packing material. Consequently 2 of the 6 machines had giant dents in them from being dropped and wouldn't function.
And restricted the access of the children to the weapons doesn't require any kind of mass confiscation of weapons from the rest of us. If the argument is "Don't let people under the age of 18 run around unsupervised without guns" then that fine and all. But that has no bearing on most of these cases. These people ILLEGALLY obtained their weapons. They broke something like 2 dozen laws before killing anyone. The problem isn't the existance of guns, it's the fact that our already adequate laws are ignored half the time, and the other half parents don't pay any attention to their children.
I didn't mean run away. I meant for something to happen that didn't involve him dying. Be it, an accident interrupting the fight to prevent him from finishing off Obi-Wan, or Obi-Wan running away from Maul, or Maul being called away by Palpatine somehow. It just made no sense from a combat standpoint for him to get killed by Obi-Wan.
Until Store A declares bankruptcy and a judge declares that all of your information valuable property and can be autctioned off to pay the creditors.
If the store doesn't COLLECT the information, then it can't be declared valuable property because it doesn't exist. I think that was the entire point. Not the creation of a store that doesn't use your information for bad things, but a store that doesn't collect your information at all.
I'm not a Linux Admin God, and the only time I've had a linux box get hacked was when I as dumb enough to plug it into the net on my cable modem network as a just out of the box, un-updated at all, redhat box running EVERY Service available. HEhe. It was like hanging out a sign that said 'FREE MACHINE!! COME AND GET IT!!'. I think it took 45 minutes to get hit the first time, at one point I think I had two guys fighting over who was going to get to keep root on the machine. I was totally clueless, it was hilarious. My current machine is behind my little router firewall, full patched and updated, only running the services I use. No worries.
ARggh! I can't complain enough about Darth Maul losing to that chump Obi-Wan!!! In the ENTIRE fight scene Maul outclasses Obi-Wan and Quigon in every possible way. He's a better fighter, he's faster, he's stronger, and he has better makeup. And that little pansy Obi-Wan manages to cut him in half... GRR! Anti-climatic fight scene! They should have let Maul escape, and had older Anakin kill him to take his place beside Palpatine. Would have been so much better in my opinion.
Send out a schoolwide e-mail to administrators, teachers, etc... everybody. Make it say something like the following:
It has come to my attention that certain individuals have installed software which is negatively impacting the performance of our network infrastructure. I do not know if these individuals are students, faculty or staff, but it will be necessary for me to disable access to this software in order to preserve the usability of the network. If this causes any inconvenience for anyone, please contact me.
Your Sysadmin Type Person.
Then just close all of the p2p ports. When people complain explain to them that their software is introducing viruses onto the network and eatting up all of the bandwidth. Then add their name to a list of 'troublemakers' and wait for the chance to hose them good... Or you can just compile a list and turn it in to the administration as a list of people who are violating the network usage policy (If one is in place).
The Columbine shooting was a combination of nutty kids and adults who left guns within their fucking reach. It had nothing to do with videogames. But of course, videogames are easier for a Congresscritter to attack. It makes them look good at re-election time, and the gun lobby is much stronger and stupider (for the LAST TIME idiots, we don't want to take away your guns, we just want to keep them out of the hands of kids!).
Ahem, Fuck you. Almost everyone I know grew up with guns around them, LOTS of guns. And then played lots of violent video games while around those guns. And DIDN'T SHOOT ANYONE. The deciding factor here is not whether someone has access to guns or not, it's whether they are FUCKING NUTCASES. Now then, since there is no longer a good reason to be dicking around with my guns. Please fuck off. In all my life, me, my relatives, people I went to school with, all of us, were constantly surrounded by guns. And none of us have been shot. Not a single one.... Wow...
Give me Yuen Baiu or Jackie Chan any day. They may not have the actual skills to beat somebody up, but they know how to look like they are doing so.
Jackie chan was raised in the Chinese Opera, as I believe was Yuen Baiu, they both definately DO have the skills to kick the shit out of someone if they so choose. Probably more so than Jet Li whose style of Wushu is almost completely focused on the beauty of the movement, a bit of Form over Function so to speak. Jet Li is an incredible athelte, and an amazing martial ARTIST, but he's not much of a fighter. Oh, he's also a pacifist, or so I've heard.
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Oh give me a fucking break. "Mother Earth" Will eat every piece of waste our civilization ever produces, and the worst possible result is that we'll kill ourselves and a few other species off. It's not like caffeine isn't a naturally occuring substance ya fuckwit...
No, you are just reading into it what you want to see. Pagans can't POSSIBLY worship Satan since none of them believe that Satan exists. If you worship satan you are something entirely different. Satan worship is a spinoff of Christianity, technically it's closer to a christian denomination than a Pagan religion.
Now you are talking out your ass with no regard for facts. The term Pagan was coined by christians to refer to the Druidic, pantheistic religions in Britain and Europe at the time. The term is almost exactly as old as established "Big Church" Christianity. The religions which it was applied to predated christianity by a long margin, but those religions have almost nothing to do with the current crop of "Pagan" religions. The current incarnation of "Paganism" is a hodgepodge of eastern philosophy, european mysticism, and native american totemic beliefs. It originated around the late 60s, early 70s and has begun to gain widespread popularity due to the increasing unpopularity of "Big Church" christianity. But no, the current incarnation of Paganism is not older than christianity. No, it doesn't have anything to do with satan.
Kintanon Disclaimer: I am a christian, my wife is a pagan. I am not a "Big Church" christian.
Yes, sadly many of us have had to suffer through a trimming process to return our penises to the accepted legal limit of 11 inches. The procedure is quite painful and involves a fair amount of screaming. This law has caused a massive "cock-drain" of American porn-stars into other countries with less restrictive penis size limits. The American pornography industry has suffered accordingly with some recent features starring men with less than impressive 6 and 8 inch penises. Please, if you are in the US, lobby your congressman to overturn this heinous law and bring back our former pornographic glory in the US!
I always wondered, if bullets are faster than the speed of sound, do they cause a sonic boom when they break the sound barrier? Is that sound part of the very loud noise heard when the gun fires? If so, why does a silencer stop it? Why does the noise vary between calibres of firearm? Someone please enlighten me as to how exactly this works... As far as I know whenever an object breaks the sound barrier a LARGE booming noise is created. I have never noticed this effected with firearms, even though bullets are said to excede the speed of sound.
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And that, my friends, is why Sony and Nintendo have a formidable enemy in Microsoft. Neither company has the cash reserves to compete with Microsoft on such an unlevel playing field, and neither one seems likely to survive in the video game arena for long without help from Uncle Sam.
I'm afraid you are mistaken about a great many things. This is one arena where Sony could crush MSFT like a bug. They made a nice profit on every single PS2 produced. They have made back their development and production costs several times over at this point. They can drop the PS2 down to cost and not worry at all about it. Even after this price drop they are still making money off of the console. And Sony may not have the liquid cash that MSFT does, but they have an empire that spans across MANY MANY markets. And if MSFT pisses them off, you many not see any more Sony PCs with Windows on them. I think Sony could easily put together a deal with Redhat or someone else to get a customized version of Linux on their systems. Sony has PLENTY of clout in many marketplaces ranging from consumer electronics to who knows what else. Nintendo on the other hand may take a small loss in sales to the Xbox, but I doubt it will affect their bottom line all that much. I personally believe that there isn't room in the market for the Xbox. It's targetted directly at the population segment that the PS2 is targetting, and that market segment isn't going to abandon Sony for anything less than a MASSIVE improvement in both system performance and gameplay. The Xbox just ain't got it. Maybe by the time MSFT figures out the console game in 5-10 years Sony will have begun a decline and opened up a spot for the Xbox^2 or whatever, but until then I'm sticking to my PS/PS2.
Kintanon
The one nice advantage to case sensitivity is when 2 or 3 items have the same first few letters. In that case having different capitalization in those letters can speed up your tab completion... Otherwise you're right, I don't see an advantage.
Kintanon
If you install OSX with UFS (Unix Filesystem) you get the case sensitivity. I dunno if you miss out on features that are in the other filesystem... But you would get what you wanted.
Kintanon
This confirms the worries I have seen here over and over: That lawmakers believe the only solution to a problem is more laws. It is completely inconceiveable to them that a problem may exist that is not best solved by increased legislation.
These people are Lawmakers. That is their profession. They MAKE LAWS, that's what they do. If someone brings a problem to them of course they are going to look at it from the viewpoint of what laws should be passed if any to solve the problem. Apparently the concensus here was that no new laws would do anything to alleviate this problem. So no, they didn't decide they needed new legislation.
Kintanon
There was a time when the larger culture largely supported parents in their goal of protecting their children - sadly that is no longer the case.
There was also a time when you wouldn't get arrested and sued for disciplining someone elses child if they were doing something crazy. Nowadays if you so much as ask a child to stop kicking you in the leg in the grocery store their parents will bitch at you up and down about "He's only a kid! He doesn't know better! Leave him alone!". Well NO SHIT he doesn't know better! That's why I told him to stop you moron! I'm certainly not going to lend any effort to helping keep their kids safe if they are just going to raise undisciplined little hellbeasts.
Kintanon
I'm not saying Child Porn laws aren't necessary, I'm saying you can't just say 'Child porn is illegal' and let it go at that. And you can't enforce US laws against people in other countries who aren't breaking any of their countries laws. The US DOES NOT rule the world, they do not make laws for every country on the planet and they should stop trying.
Kintanon
Conclusively define 'Child Porn' by giving me an age beyond which someone is no longer considered a Child.
The plain fact of the matter is that in many places around the world the age of consent ranges from 12 years old up to 18 years old. So is a 14 year old considered Child porn? Where? By who? Should the creator be judged by the standards of every community which is capable of viewing the material or should they be held accountable to the standards of the community which they actually reside in? Your assertion is vague and unfounded. Go away...
Kintanon
Huh? I'm 22, I'm married. I hate children. I'm not a proponent of giving children all of the general rights of adulthood, I explicitly stated CIVIL rights.
Oh, and as for Or when was the last time a group of children presented a worthwhile arguement or even used their freedom of speech in a constructive way? I will lend my $.02 and say that for every 1 that does there are hundreds who do not.
How many ADULTS can present a worthwhile argument for their right to free speach? Far too few.
But just because someone is incapable of enumerating their rights effectively does not mean those rights do not apply to them.
Kintanon
And decidedly a 13 year old today is far less mentally and emotionally mature than they were back then... simply because back then they had to grow up fast.
The simple fact is that today children are far less capable of dealing with the physical and emotional burdens of a sexual relationship and child-rearing, and kids shouldn't have to be. Let them be kids for crying out loud!
Of course, this sucks ass for the kids since they are maturing physically much faster than the were a hundred years ago. There are girls as young as 8 years old developing breasts and going through puberty. Part of the blame rests with the meat heavy, hormone rich diet they consume. So we're breeding generations of children that become interested in sex much earlier than they used to, but are being taught far less about sex than they once were. So maybe you SHOULD teach your 9 year old about sex, since she looks like a 15 year old, so all of the 17 year old guys are going to be hitting on her... Might be a good idea if she knows what they mean when they want to play "doctor"....
Kintanon
Oh I see... But adults are Ok to sacrifice since they are worthless globs of matter. As opposed to the precious and angelic children, right?
Children are easily replaceable, mostly useless, and quit annoying. Not to mention completely selfish by default. Don't go preaching about how 'precious' children are. I'm against underage pornography, but not because I give a flying fuck about the kids specifically. I don't like to see anyone hurt, be they child or adult. I'm also against exploitave adult pornography where the subject is not fully willing to participate. There should be no lesser or greater amount of civil rights extended to children than adults.
Kintanon
Mmmmm.... half naked chick.....
Oh, what? Were you saying something?
Kintanon
I work for a place in Georgia which has part of the company in California. The California branch sent us half a dozen huge rackmount servers... packed in T-shirts. Apparently the company out there had bought 3,000 t-shirts during the dotcom boom, and had nothing to do with them now. So they were using them as packing material. Consequently 2 of the 6 machines had giant dents in them from being dropped and wouldn't function.
Kintanon
And restricted the access of the children to the weapons doesn't require any kind of mass confiscation of weapons from the rest of us.
If the argument is "Don't let people under the age of 18 run around unsupervised without guns" then that fine and all. But that has no bearing on most of these cases. These people ILLEGALLY obtained their weapons. They broke something like 2 dozen laws before killing anyone. The problem isn't the existance of guns, it's the fact that our already adequate laws are ignored half the time, and the other half parents don't pay any attention to their children.
Kintanon
I didn't mean run away. I meant for something to happen that didn't involve him dying. Be it, an accident interrupting the fight to prevent him from finishing off Obi-Wan, or Obi-Wan running away from Maul, or Maul being called away by Palpatine somehow. It just made no sense from a combat standpoint for him to get killed by Obi-Wan.
Kintanon
Until Store A declares bankruptcy and a judge declares that all of your information valuable property and can be autctioned off to pay the creditors.
If the store doesn't COLLECT the information, then it can't be declared valuable property because it doesn't exist. I think that was the entire point. Not the creation of a store that doesn't use your information for bad things, but a store that doesn't collect your information at all.
Kintanon
I'm not a Linux Admin God, and the only time I've had a linux box get hacked was when I as dumb enough to plug it into the net on my cable modem network as a just out of the box, un-updated at all, redhat box running EVERY Service available. HEhe. It was like hanging out a sign that said 'FREE MACHINE!! COME AND GET IT!!'. I think it took 45 minutes to get hit the first time, at one point I think I had two guys fighting over who was going to get to keep root on the machine. I was totally clueless, it was hilarious. My current machine is behind my little router firewall, full patched and updated, only running the services I use. No worries.
Kintanon
ARggh! I can't complain enough about Darth Maul losing to that chump Obi-Wan!!! In the ENTIRE fight scene Maul outclasses Obi-Wan and Quigon in every possible way. He's a better fighter, he's faster, he's stronger, and he has better makeup. And that little pansy Obi-Wan manages to cut him in half... GRR! Anti-climatic fight scene! They should have let Maul escape, and had older Anakin kill him to take his place beside Palpatine. Would have been so much better in my opinion.
Kintanon
Send out a schoolwide e-mail to administrators, teachers, etc... everybody. Make it say something like the following:
It has come to my attention that certain individuals have installed software which is negatively impacting the performance of our network infrastructure. I do not know if these individuals are students, faculty or staff, but it will be necessary for me to disable access to this software in order to preserve the usability of the network. If this causes any inconvenience for anyone, please contact me.
Your Sysadmin Type Person.
Then just close all of the p2p ports. When people complain explain to them that their software is introducing viruses onto the network and eatting up all of the bandwidth. Then add their name to a list of 'troublemakers' and wait for the chance to hose them good... Or you can just compile a list and turn it in to the administration as a list of people who are violating the network usage policy (If one is in place).
Kintanon
The Columbine shooting was a combination of nutty kids and adults who left guns within their fucking reach. It had nothing to do with videogames. But of course, videogames are easier for a Congresscritter to attack. It makes them look good at re-election time, and the gun lobby is much stronger and stupider (for the LAST TIME idiots, we don't want to take away your guns, we just want to keep them out of the hands of kids!).
Ahem, Fuck you. Almost everyone I know grew up with guns around them, LOTS of guns. And then played lots of violent video games while around those guns. And DIDN'T SHOOT ANYONE. The deciding factor here is not whether someone has access to guns or not, it's whether they are FUCKING NUTCASES. Now then, since there is no longer a good reason to be dicking around with my guns. Please fuck off. In all my life, me, my relatives, people I went to school with, all of us, were constantly surrounded by guns. And none of us have been shot. Not a single one.... Wow...
Kintanon
Give me Yuen Baiu or Jackie Chan any day. They may not have the actual skills to beat somebody up, but they know how to look like they are doing so.
Jackie chan was raised in the Chinese Opera, as I believe was Yuen Baiu, they both definately DO have the skills to kick the shit out of someone if they so choose. Probably more so than Jet Li whose style of Wushu is almost completely focused on the beauty of the movement, a bit of Form over Function so to speak. Jet Li is an incredible athelte, and an amazing martial ARTIST, but he's not much of a fighter.
Oh, he's also a pacifist, or so I've heard.
Kintanon
Oh give me a fucking break. "Mother Earth" Will eat every piece of waste our civilization ever produces, and the worst possible result is that we'll kill ourselves and a few other species off. It's not like caffeine isn't a naturally occuring substance ya fuckwit...
Kintanon
No, you are just reading into it what you want to see. Pagans can't POSSIBLY worship Satan since none of them believe that Satan exists. If you worship satan you are something entirely different.
Satan worship is a spinoff of Christianity, technically it's closer to a christian denomination than a Pagan religion.
Kintanon
Now you are talking out your ass with no regard for facts. The term Pagan was coined by christians to refer to the Druidic, pantheistic religions in Britain and Europe at the time. The term is almost exactly as old as established "Big Church" Christianity. The religions which it was applied to predated christianity by a long margin, but those religions have almost nothing to do with the current crop of "Pagan" religions. The current incarnation of "Paganism" is a hodgepodge of eastern philosophy, european mysticism, and native american totemic beliefs. It originated around the late 60s, early 70s and has begun to gain widespread popularity due to the increasing unpopularity of "Big Church" christianity. But no, the current incarnation of Paganism is not older than christianity. No, it doesn't have anything to do with satan.
Kintanon
Disclaimer: I am a christian, my wife is a pagan. I am not a "Big Church" christian.
Yes, sadly many of us have had to suffer through a trimming process to return our penises to the accepted legal limit of 11 inches. The procedure is quite painful and involves a fair amount of screaming. This law has caused a massive "cock-drain" of American porn-stars into other countries with less restrictive penis size limits. The American pornography industry has suffered accordingly with some recent features starring men with less than impressive 6 and 8 inch penises. Please, if you are in the US, lobby your congressman to overturn this heinous law and bring back our former pornographic glory in the US!
Kintanon
It's funny, Laugh!
I always wondered, if bullets are faster than the speed of sound, do they cause a sonic boom when they break the sound barrier? Is that sound part of the very loud noise heard when the gun fires? If so, why does a silencer stop it? Why does the noise vary between calibres of firearm? Someone please enlighten me as to how exactly this works... As far as I know whenever an object breaks the sound barrier a LARGE booming noise is created. I have never noticed this effected with firearms, even though bullets are said to excede the speed of sound.
Kintanon