Napoleon, according to many accounts, was something like 5'7", which was above average at the time. He was depicted as 4' even, or smaller, by the British propagandists, who wrote he was tiny and angry with the world for being so tiny... Some confusion may arrise from some French reports that he was about 5'2", but the French inch was longer than the Imperial inch at the time, and 5'2" in french inches worked out to 5'7" Imperial. The only dispute is that his autopsy indicated he was 5'2", and was conducted in British territory. Brits argue that therefore, he was 5'2" and ALL of the previous reports and accounts were false. Other historians note that while he was in British territory, the report was completed by his French physician, who probably measured him in French inches. Since that agrees with the dozens of other acounts putting him at or about 5'7", it seems the more reasonable explanation.
In addition, modern nukes are much cleaner than the dirty bombs that were dropped on Japan. Hydrogen bombs actually have almost no long term fallout. Unfortunately they never use straight hydrogen bombs, they are always part of the three stage "Trinity" Thermonuclear devices, which are quite dirty due to the third stage.
What's scarry is of course, that the first stage of a "trinity" device is small enough to fit in a briefcase, and level a city block. But that has nothing to do with it being nuclear and everything to do with it being a tiny bomb that could disintigrate most of a city block. As I recall, it "burns" the nuclear fuel almost completely, and as a result has little to no harmfull fallout. It's barely even radioactive, since it's mostly all alpha emitters, might not even register. Don't want to inhale plutonium dust though, that can't be good for you.
Odds may be high that they accounted for the differences. However, this is NASA we are talking about. Odds are also high that they used Kg. for one, and lbs. for the other.
You don't understand the story. This girl was depressed and suicidal, and had attempted suicide before. She told her best friend this. Her best fiend felt slighted over something that happened, and told her mom all about it. Mom created an account belonging to a "13 year old boy" who "went to another highschool" and started e-dating her. Telling her how smart and pretty she was, how he can't wait to meet her. She got her daughter and her daughter's friends to play along, mentioning having met this fake boy over the summer and other such stories, to make sure she believed he was real, to cement what a heart-throb and a sweet caring guy he was. Then one day "he" told her he was lying for a joke, she's stupid and ugly and world would be better off if she was dead. And she killed herself.
A post above said that the mother denies it. This may be true now, but initially she confessed and boasted that she did nothing illegal. She said it doesn't matter what I said, she was crazy and would have killed herself no matter what. She has said such things as "It's done, she killed herself, let it go" and so on. She admits telling her to kill herself, she admits making this account to spy on her and "see if she was talking about my daughter behind her back". Only now that she is in trouble does she backpeddle and say she was lying about all of that, she didn't actually do it!
Quite. I buy charmin because it's soft. No dancing bear convinced me, and no stupid pillows or kittens will change my mind about their sandpaper TP. I use a mach III razor because when I got to university, they gave everybody a "hygene" pack, guys got soap, shampoo, and razors. Girls got soap, shampoo, conditioner, and who knows, probably body razors. Because they get you on the blades;) Would I switch to a different brand? It would take collosal effort. The blades cost the same, and no retarded "Now we have 4 blades" "NOW WE HAVE 5" "YOU FOOL, HOW CAN YOU LIVE WITH ANY LESS THAN 19 BLADES? PLUS IT USES QUANTUM SONIC MEGAPULSES AND IS MADE WITH PURE TITANIUM" will convince me that the diffent blades that cost the same are actually superior. I shave my face. It's smooth. Product works, the end. I doubt that the Quatro Ultra Snakeoil Titanium PRO will shave me to a new level of smooth that I had no idea existed until I experienced it. That's nonsense. I'm not going to try Gilette's next big thing either though, for the same reason. I doubt their lies about how I've never known what shaved was until their new blades!
One bit of advertising that does work on me: Quiznos. First "It's not lacking any meat, and that's what a real woman needs, urhehehehahaheayhaw!" "It's the ubermeat", then Rachael fucking Ray and her "sammies". Fuck you Quiznos, your sandwiches may indeed be better than Subway's but I'll never know. There, you got a LOAD of brand recognition out of me. Are you happy now? I hope so.
It's hardly slower, either. Put some bones in a Crock Pot overnight, strain them out in the morning and dump some vegitables, meat, and barley or lentils in there. When you come home from work you have 4 nights of soup for two people, at least. More if you have a bigger pot than the 3.5q pot I have. In fact, a slow cooker is the single greatest invention of all time. Chili, 15 minutes: Empty cans of corn, beans, more beans, tomatoes, dice an onion and a bell pepper or two into there, dice a jalapeno or two, sprinkle some spices in real quick,add a squirt of lime juice (or a whole lime sliced up), drop some stewing beef (or ground beef if you hate freedom and justice, I suppose), and when you get back from work, greatest chili of all time, way better than Stagg crap. You can make it tropical by adding a (drained) can of diced pineapple, or dicing a kiwifruit or two. Sounds odd but goes suprisingly well! Don't forget to make your own corn muffins, they cook in only 15 minutes!
Home made pizza dough has like 1/10 the fat that the impossibly greasy "reduced fat" pizza crusts do! I had a recipe that was still lower fat and used like 1/4 cup of olive oil in there. Then I discovered 1/8 instead changes nothing. Then 1 tbsp also doesn't make it dryer or less tasty. Also as high as 1 part whole wheat to 3 parts white flour is beneith notice, but adds more fibre! Use skim cheese which also tastes the same when melted on a pizza, and you're all set. I make a pizza that, while the same size as a McCain frozen monstrosity, weighs almost twice as much but costs $1 less and is so much lower fat, it's rediculous! Between two people it's food enough for several meals. Two slices fills you right up. You could probably be full from 1 if you had more salad...
I used to make homemade rootbeer, but the stores around here have stopped selling the mix. I suppose I could mix nutmeg and allspice and whatever other spices usually go in there, try it myself, but that might go poorly;) Plus I've lost my barrel and empty bottles in the move... But it's mighty tasty, hearty, and only like.5% alcohol. Cheap, too. At least in Canada where there isn't a collosal tax on refined sugar. I dunno, it might be pretty crappy with corn syrup instead of sugar, or it might be fine.
It's probably how I was brought up. My parents never made frozen crap (other than frozen peas), and occationally, OCCATIONALLY, frozen fries instead of vegitable sticks or just plain potato chips, when we had burgers. Frozen paties? Never. Putting some spices and some oats into extra lean ground beef is cheaper, and even lean instead of extra lean, is rediculously lower fat than whatever grade FFF meat they make that crap out of.
Hacking? Are you serious? Just connect to the tracker, you can see who is downloading it. After all, if you couldn't tell the IP addresses of the people in the swarm, you couldn't upload/download to/from them. That's step 1. Step 2 was apparently pay his ISP about 8 pounds, and they turned over his name and address. Step 3 is demand 600 pounds plus the 8 pounds you spend buying his legally protected private customer information. Step 4 = PROFIT!
You misunderstand. She has no problem signing off on 50 different crappily coded buggy Harry Potter console RPG and platformer games. You can find stacks of them in your local EB Games. Somebody wants to pull a "Lord of the Rings" and just take the FFX engine and copy&paste some HP characters in who follow Harry and the gang around behind the scenes and watch cutscenes from the movie? No problem, here's where you park the dumptruck full of money. Somebody wants to publish D20 rules for roleplaying in the HP universe? No way in hell! See, the DM comes up with his own plot, and the other players flesh it out with their own actions. They could be lewd! They could be violent! With HER creation. We already know she's violently opposed to allowing fanfictions on the internet. Apparently she's also dead against allowing them in your own mind, and any product that would help facilitate that.
Imagine if illegally obtained evidence was admissible. Cops would be kicking down doors at random hoping to find evidence of a crime. Or planting evidence at will. Your rights, the rights of the innocent, would be destroyed.
Imagine if punishments for a police officer breaking any law were automatically trebbled. Officer breaks down door, officer faces triple the maximum punishment for breaking and entering, plus theft for whatever evidence they seized without a warrant. Right now, if a thief did it and anonymously turned the evidence they found over to the authorities, the evidence is still admissible. It should be for the police too.
The idea is that to prevent the police from breaking the law while gathering evidence, they have to make all evidence obtained illegally inadmissable. I disagree. They need to make breaking the law illegal or something! As it stands judges and police officers are 100% immune from the law, hence the only way to "punish" a police officer who breaks the law is to take away his "conviction points" so he gets less of a raise and has diminished chances at promotion.
But...but...there was an episode of CSI where the IQ of 160 girl confessed to murder so her brother would get away with it due to reasonable doubt, but she had all the evidence hidden away to clear herself and implicate him, which once he was aquitted could not be used due to double jeopardy, and apparently because she was a cute 14 year old girl she was immune to prosecution for obstruction of justice, perjury, and tampering with evidence! Are you saying that's not how it works???
For those who may be unaware, the "cure" for rabies that has progressed far enough to present any symptoms at all, let alone far enough to drive the victim mad, is death. There is no cure, there is no treatment. So if an animal bites you, you get that shot ASAP even if it probably didn't have rabies. Note that this doesn't mean you should go around shooting people you think might have rabies...
There was an instance where a nuclear reactor had its saftey systems disabled by the Slammer worm (or was it Code Red?) because their saftey and monitoring systems all operated on an NT4 system. And while they were not on the Internet, they had a secure T1 to a contractor, which itself was still on a secure network, but that secure network had a laptop some employee brought from HOME plugged into it! It wasn't too big of a deal since the saftey systems of course have electric and mechanical backup systems in case of computer failure. Plus the reactor was already offline due to a massive hole erroded/corroded through the cement containment wall that had left the core exposed for months without anybody noticing, and could have resulted in core breech at any time. Fills you with confidence, doesn't it?;)
Whoops, my hard drive crashed. And gosh darnit, I forgot to make backups. You know, I'd really love to cooperate; here's my PGP key... Now, what was the passphrase again?
Good luck not going to jail for contempt of court and obstruction of justice. I'm sure some waterboarding will help you remember your passphrase. And remember, waterboarding is not torture since you only think you are about to die, but really are pretty likely to not choke and drown. Oh and it's also not considered cruel and unusual punishment either, because technically it's interrogation, not punishment!
Linux has suffered tremendeously due to this disregard of the normal, non-geek user. You know, the kind of person whose VCR flashes "12:00" because the UI on VCRs is total shit and only geeks really bother with it because we are the only ones who consider bugs and technical problems to be a challenge instead of, say, bugs and technical problems.
Enough with the VCR bullshit. It was bullshit 20 years ago and its triple bullshit now. My ancient Sony Betacord (which is still 100% functional by the way) was so EPICLY confusing...ya...you hold clock, then you pressed "hour" till the hour was right, then you pressed "minute" till the minute was right, then you let go of "clock" and it was set. I mean my god, that's how cars work too, nobody talks about people who's in-dash clock is a 12:00 flasher...it's also how clock radios work and microwaves work. Ovens with a digital clock, too. Digital watches. The only variation was that for some, you can let go of "clock" once the digits start flashing, and you press it again to set it. VRCs have menus now, if they don't set their clock themselves via the timepulse thats sent over the air or through the cable. Digital watches you still have to hold down "Set" until they flash, then press the hour and minute buttons till the time is right, then press the "set" button again (or some variation thereof) so if anything, we should be making fun of the "average user" who can't own a digital watch because they are so impossible to set for anybody without a Math Degree. Oh wait, nobody is that moronic. Just because you saw Jerry Seinfeld 10 years ago, and he said nobody knows how to use a VCR, doesn't mean its true. It just means Seinfeld doesn't know how, and that comes as no suprise. He can't open plastic bags of airline peanuts, either, even though they are identical in design to bags of potato chips you buy from the store.
Three words. Bit. Tor. Rent. If they felt like it, the bandwidth cost would be nothing. Or, if it was free they could just toss it out there and it would be on download.com and tucows and all the other free download sites. And that is how it will work for the free crippled version, won't cost THEM any bandwidth at all. Why they are charging for the full version I don't know...don't they WANT people populating their database so it can make better choices when populating new players' worlds? Guess not. I'll be sure to use my "demo" version firewalled so it won't upload the data and help them out, if they're going to be tools about it.
Conspiracy theory #2 is that they don't want to pay artists to create the models of things for the final launch, better to sell the useless editor and make people do the work for them.
Am I right? Or am I right?
No, that's completely right. The game uses fancy clustering stuff, sort of like "recommendation" algorithms on netflix etc. So you start designing your first creature, and it populates the world with various other creatures from the database, that its distance algorithm measures as "similar" to what you designed. Can't do that very well without a huge database. Therefore, they are releasing the editor early in order to get that database fully populated. It's not that their artists won't be doing anything: They'll be working full time. It's just that they need millions of entries in the database.
The only news here is that the editor they've been releasing soon (Its always been known they would release the editors early to populate the database) won't be fully functional, and they'll be CHARGING for the full version. That's pretty annoying. And as far as I know, there will be a DS game featuring just the tide pool phase.
While you may think that's a ridiculous car analogy, it's not that far from reality. My parents' Saturn car, for example, has a special chip in the key to deactivate the anti-theft immobilizer. Even if you get another key cut at a locksmith, the key will open the door but will not start the car. So you have to spend $25 to get a new key cut by the dealership. If Saturn went under and you lost your key, you could no longer use your car. You can't even hotwire it easily, cus that's the whole point of the immobilizer in the first place.
Except that in this case it would be perfectly legal to get a mechanic to go and rip out the immobilizer circuit, whereas it's against the DCMA to strip the DRM from your WMA files. Then again, who cares about the legality, you can download a stripper to remove DRM from WMA files. It only works if you have the key in your "keyring", so people with MSN Music would have to strip it before changing OS or reinstalling their OS.
Wow, that is expensive. So given that it is such a valuable item, how much money is your negative comment costing the economy? Why do you hate capitalism and freedom???
Evolution does tell us how you get from one beastie to another. You can take a whole boat load of known species and toss together a philogenetic tree. Along each edge you see the genetic mutations that occured (in the model you built, not necessarialy in reality). Of course without DNA from fossils, and from all the intermediate species that didn't get fossilized, or at least the fossils haven't been discovered, all we have is leaf nodes, no (or few) internal nodes. Recently extinct species like mammoths and some of the human ancestors, we have partial DNA samples, at least. But mostly, we could be wrong about what the internal nodes were, and the order of some of the mutations. And in fact, likely are about most of them.
So you can put humans and single celled organisms and chimps and fish and lizards and everything on this tree. Statistical models will give you a "possible" link and a "possible" series of mutations. Along an edge there could have been any number of intermediate species, and there's no real way to know the order of mutations within that edge. With greater understanding perhaps it will be possible to narrow things down, by observing that a certain combonation would not be viable, perhaps. I don't know. But this tree lets you say "this critter doesn't exist anymore, its the ancestor to all these things. one of those things was an ancestor to these other things. and one of those things was an ancestor to primates, etc." and with high confidence this is correct. It even tells you the maximum likelyhood for when mutations occured, although you don't need to tell us that might not be correct. We know it probably isn't correct. But until we can collect DNA samples from extinct ancestor species, it's good enough.
ID is (or should be, I haven't look into it) that Evolution happened, but it was God who chose to make these mutations happen. Fine. I don't object, that's a valid religious hypothesis. It's not science though. Scientific observation is that give or take some variation, mutations are uniformly and independently random events. Perhaps God made these mutations happen in such a way that the overall distribution appears completely random when in fact it was designed, to test people's faith. Perhaps God was bored with omnipotence and decided to see how sweet of a universe he could build if he only allowed himself to change things by altering the outcome of random events. People do that with games. Half-Life crowbar challenge. Chronotrigger wooden sword challenge. But the belief that God controls all random chance, and is clever enough to do it in such a way that you never observe that it actually isn't random, isn't scientific. You can't prove it's wrong because the assumption is a being with infinite smarts is trying to make sure you can't prove it one way or the other. It doesn't predict anything other than what you know is what God wants you to know. It's no more meaningful from a scientific point of view than saying the entire universe was created right the instant you read this sentance, and all your memories prior to that are falsified so you don't suspect that you were only just created now. In fact why now? Why not in 3 years time? Perhaps the universe still doesn't exist and we're all just memories of our future (real) selves. Still don't exist yet. Any belief in a flavour of creationism further than what I described (God fixing the dice) is just steps towards the ultimate theory of only being created this instant. If life was created seperately, then it means the genetic evidence of speciation events and genetic divergance were created to trick people. Or I guess it means that God designed life with Gene++ and we're just seeing evidence inheritance and overridden operators. But he must dislike copy&paste because there is lots of reinventing the wheel in separate genetic lines that could have been solved with a quick Ctrl+C Ctrl+V. Maybe not. Maybe it was a team effort, maybe he got the angels to form coding teams and tackledifferent
Even in your example, it is the seller of the home who is at fault, and the owner for not reading the manual. Not the person who accepted the invitation. Especially given the fact that Windows XP will automatically use any unsecured WiFi it can find, and its technically difficult to stop it from doing so even if you realize it's happening at all!
MY router had WEP enabled out of the box. On the bottom is a removable sticker put there by the factory. It has a copy of the serial #, the device-specific WEP key, and the device-specific default password. It came with a nice thick manual, and a single sided single page colourful "quick start" card that tells you about the sticker and how to use this WEP key in Windows or on a Mac. Every WiFi router should be this way, and should have been from the start. If you can't read this ONE card telling you how to get started, you don't get Internet. Tough break.
They aren't a very good developer if they don't know about the key combination to do a full firmware restore. It's only "bricked" if you don't have access to a computer.
They don't even bother with making sure the movie flops. For example, did you know that films like Spiderman 1 usually lose millions, even hundreds of millions. The method is simple. You take your accounting books. You see "Oh, it cost us $50M to make the movie" then you wait until its in theaters. Oh SHIT FUCK ASS SHIT SHIT SHIT it made $150M! That's A-fucking-mazing. And the governments going to take it! So QUICK, warm up your pens, it's time to write down $250M as your salary in that column you left blank. *phew*, now the film lost $150M and you can apply to the government for an emergency bailout. Too bad to Stan Lee and Marvel Comics, since the film lost money you don't get your contracted share of the profits. The IRS doesn't care because the individuals still pay taxes until the use their own loopholes to get out of them. I don't think that in the past 50 years at least, there has been a single movie in the USA that has made even a single cent thanks to the power of fraud. Sir Alec Guiness didn't get paid for his role in Star Wars for the same reason, he was suckered into a contract that paid him a share of the profits, and of course we all remember how hard Star Wars tanked, that's why they couldn't afford to make any more.
So no, the plot for "The Producers" doesn't really happen, but that's only because "The Producers" incorrectly assumed that the IRS and the FBI would care about multimillion dollar accounting fraud, and the scamming of investors and contracted employees.
No, they are claiming trademark on "t-mobile", which is their company's name and registered trademark. The issue is that the website noticed that their name ends in "t-mobile", although the "t" is part of another word. So they changed just the "t-mobile" to be in "T-mobile"'s company colours. Its like there was a website called "Backslash Dotage" for some reason, and one day out of the blue they decided that just "slash Dot" would appear in teal, while the rest of their name remained black. One might think they were trying to call attention to that part of their name in particular? A trademarked portion, perhaps? And the "random" choice of colour might be somewhat less than random? If/.'s compalined would they be trying to say that they own teal?
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Napoleon, according to many accounts, was something like 5'7", which was above average at the time. He was depicted as 4' even, or smaller, by the British propagandists, who wrote he was tiny and angry with the world for being so tiny... Some confusion may arrise from some French reports that he was about 5'2", but the French inch was longer than the Imperial inch at the time, and 5'2" in french inches worked out to 5'7" Imperial. The only dispute is that his autopsy indicated he was 5'2", and was conducted in British territory. Brits argue that therefore, he was 5'2" and ALL of the previous reports and accounts were false. Other historians note that while he was in British territory, the report was completed by his French physician, who probably measured him in French inches. Since that agrees with the dozens of other acounts putting him at or about 5'7", it seems the more reasonable explanation.
In addition, modern nukes are much cleaner than the dirty bombs that were dropped on Japan. Hydrogen bombs actually have almost no long term fallout. Unfortunately they never use straight hydrogen bombs, they are always part of the three stage "Trinity" Thermonuclear devices, which are quite dirty due to the third stage.
What's scarry is of course, that the first stage of a "trinity" device is small enough to fit in a briefcase, and level a city block. But that has nothing to do with it being nuclear and everything to do with it being a tiny bomb that could disintigrate most of a city block. As I recall, it "burns" the nuclear fuel almost completely, and as a result has little to no harmfull fallout. It's barely even radioactive, since it's mostly all alpha emitters, might not even register. Don't want to inhale plutonium dust though, that can't be good for you.
Odds may be high that they accounted for the differences. However, this is NASA we are talking about. Odds are also high that they used Kg. for one, and lbs. for the other.
You don't understand the story. This girl was depressed and suicidal, and had attempted suicide before. She told her best friend this. Her best fiend felt slighted over something that happened, and told her mom all about it. Mom created an account belonging to a "13 year old boy" who "went to another highschool" and started e-dating her. Telling her how smart and pretty she was, how he can't wait to meet her. She got her daughter and her daughter's friends to play along, mentioning having met this fake boy over the summer and other such stories, to make sure she believed he was real, to cement what a heart-throb and a sweet caring guy he was. Then one day "he" told her he was lying for a joke, she's stupid and ugly and world would be better off if she was dead. And she killed herself.
A post above said that the mother denies it. This may be true now, but initially she confessed and boasted that she did nothing illegal. She said it doesn't matter what I said, she was crazy and would have killed herself no matter what. She has said such things as "It's done, she killed herself, let it go" and so on. She admits telling her to kill herself, she admits making this account to spy on her and "see if she was talking about my daughter behind her back". Only now that she is in trouble does she backpeddle and say she was lying about all of that, she didn't actually do it!
Quite. I buy charmin because it's soft. No dancing bear convinced me, and no stupid pillows or kittens will change my mind about their sandpaper TP. I use a mach III razor because when I got to university, they gave everybody a "hygene" pack, guys got soap, shampoo, and razors. Girls got soap, shampoo, conditioner, and who knows, probably body razors. Because they get you on the blades ;) Would I switch to a different brand? It would take collosal effort. The blades cost the same, and no retarded "Now we have 4 blades" "NOW WE HAVE 5" "YOU FOOL, HOW CAN YOU LIVE WITH ANY LESS THAN 19 BLADES? PLUS IT USES QUANTUM SONIC MEGAPULSES AND IS MADE WITH PURE TITANIUM" will convince me that the diffent blades that cost the same are actually superior. I shave my face. It's smooth. Product works, the end. I doubt that the Quatro Ultra Snakeoil Titanium PRO will shave me to a new level of smooth that I had no idea existed until I experienced it. That's nonsense. I'm not going to try Gilette's next big thing either though, for the same reason. I doubt their lies about how I've never known what shaved was until their new blades!
One bit of advertising that does work on me: Quiznos. First "It's not lacking any meat, and that's what a real woman needs, urhehehehahaheayhaw!" "It's the ubermeat", then Rachael fucking Ray and her "sammies". Fuck you Quiznos, your sandwiches may indeed be better than Subway's but I'll never know. There, you got a LOAD of brand recognition out of me. Are you happy now? I hope so.
It's hardly slower, either. Put some bones in a Crock Pot overnight, strain them out in the morning and dump some vegitables, meat, and barley or lentils in there. When you come home from work you have 4 nights of soup for two people, at least. More if you have a bigger pot than the 3.5q pot I have. In fact, a slow cooker is the single greatest invention of all time. Chili, 15 minutes: Empty cans of corn, beans, more beans, tomatoes, dice an onion and a bell pepper or two into there, dice a jalapeno or two, sprinkle some spices in real quick,add a squirt of lime juice (or a whole lime sliced up), drop some stewing beef (or ground beef if you hate freedom and justice, I suppose), and when you get back from work, greatest chili of all time, way better than Stagg crap. You can make it tropical by adding a (drained) can of diced pineapple, or dicing a kiwifruit or two. Sounds odd but goes suprisingly well! Don't forget to make your own corn muffins, they cook in only 15 minutes!
Home made pizza dough has like 1/10 the fat that the impossibly greasy "reduced fat" pizza crusts do! I had a recipe that was still lower fat and used like 1/4 cup of olive oil in there. Then I discovered 1/8 instead changes nothing. Then 1 tbsp also doesn't make it dryer or less tasty. Also as high as 1 part whole wheat to 3 parts white flour is beneith notice, but adds more fibre! Use skim cheese which also tastes the same when melted on a pizza, and you're all set. I make a pizza that, while the same size as a McCain frozen monstrosity, weighs almost twice as much but costs $1 less and is so much lower fat, it's rediculous! Between two people it's food enough for several meals. Two slices fills you right up. You could probably be full from 1 if you had more salad...
I used to make homemade rootbeer, but the stores around here have stopped selling the mix. I suppose I could mix nutmeg and allspice and whatever other spices usually go in there, try it myself, but that might go poorly ;) Plus I've lost my barrel and empty bottles in the move... But it's mighty tasty, hearty, and only like .5% alcohol. Cheap, too. At least in Canada where there isn't a collosal tax on refined sugar. I dunno, it might be pretty crappy with corn syrup instead of sugar, or it might be fine.
It's probably how I was brought up. My parents never made frozen crap (other than frozen peas), and occationally, OCCATIONALLY, frozen fries instead of vegitable sticks or just plain potato chips, when we had burgers. Frozen paties? Never. Putting some spices and some oats into extra lean ground beef is cheaper, and even lean instead of extra lean, is rediculously lower fat than whatever grade FFF meat they make that crap out of.
Hacking? Are you serious? Just connect to the tracker, you can see who is downloading it. After all, if you couldn't tell the IP addresses of the people in the swarm, you couldn't upload/download to/from them. That's step 1. Step 2 was apparently pay his ISP about 8 pounds, and they turned over his name and address. Step 3 is demand 600 pounds plus the 8 pounds you spend buying his legally protected private customer information. Step 4 = PROFIT!
Walking away while they talk to dead air isn't a felony like impersonating a police officer is. Maybe you should stick to your way ;)
You misunderstand. She has no problem signing off on 50 different crappily coded buggy Harry Potter console RPG and platformer games. You can find stacks of them in your local EB Games. Somebody wants to pull a "Lord of the Rings" and just take the FFX engine and copy&paste some HP characters in who follow Harry and the gang around behind the scenes and watch cutscenes from the movie? No problem, here's where you park the dumptruck full of money. Somebody wants to publish D20 rules for roleplaying in the HP universe? No way in hell! See, the DM comes up with his own plot, and the other players flesh it out with their own actions. They could be lewd! They could be violent! With HER creation. We already know she's violently opposed to allowing fanfictions on the internet. Apparently she's also dead against allowing them in your own mind, and any product that would help facilitate that.
Imagine if punishments for a police officer breaking any law were automatically trebbled. Officer breaks down door, officer faces triple the maximum punishment for breaking and entering, plus theft for whatever evidence they seized without a warrant. Right now, if a thief did it and anonymously turned the evidence they found over to the authorities, the evidence is still admissible. It should be for the police too.
The idea is that to prevent the police from breaking the law while gathering evidence, they have to make all evidence obtained illegally inadmissable. I disagree. They need to make breaking the law illegal or something! As it stands judges and police officers are 100% immune from the law, hence the only way to "punish" a police officer who breaks the law is to take away his "conviction points" so he gets less of a raise and has diminished chances at promotion.
But...but...there was an episode of CSI where the IQ of 160 girl confessed to murder so her brother would get away with it due to reasonable doubt, but she had all the evidence hidden away to clear herself and implicate him, which once he was aquitted could not be used due to double jeopardy, and apparently because she was a cute 14 year old girl she was immune to prosecution for obstruction of justice, perjury, and tampering with evidence! Are you saying that's not how it works???
For those who may be unaware, the "cure" for rabies that has progressed far enough to present any symptoms at all, let alone far enough to drive the victim mad, is death. There is no cure, there is no treatment. So if an animal bites you, you get that shot ASAP even if it probably didn't have rabies. Note that this doesn't mean you should go around shooting people you think might have rabies...
There was an instance where a nuclear reactor had its saftey systems disabled by the Slammer worm (or was it Code Red?) because their saftey and monitoring systems all operated on an NT4 system. And while they were not on the Internet, they had a secure T1 to a contractor, which itself was still on a secure network, but that secure network had a laptop some employee brought from HOME plugged into it! It wasn't too big of a deal since the saftey systems of course have electric and mechanical backup systems in case of computer failure. Plus the reactor was already offline due to a massive hole erroded/corroded through the cement containment wall that had left the core exposed for months without anybody noticing, and could have resulted in core breech at any time. Fills you with confidence, doesn't it? ;)
Three words. Bit. Tor. Rent. If they felt like it, the bandwidth cost would be nothing. Or, if it was free they could just toss it out there and it would be on download.com and tucows and all the other free download sites. And that is how it will work for the free crippled version, won't cost THEM any bandwidth at all. Why they are charging for the full version I don't know...don't they WANT people populating their database so it can make better choices when populating new players' worlds? Guess not. I'll be sure to use my "demo" version firewalled so it won't upload the data and help them out, if they're going to be tools about it.
No, that's completely right. The game uses fancy clustering stuff, sort of like "recommendation" algorithms on netflix etc. So you start designing your first creature, and it populates the world with various other creatures from the database, that its distance algorithm measures as "similar" to what you designed. Can't do that very well without a huge database. Therefore, they are releasing the editor early in order to get that database fully populated. It's not that their artists won't be doing anything: They'll be working full time. It's just that they need millions of entries in the database.
The only news here is that the editor they've been releasing soon (Its always been known they would release the editors early to populate the database) won't be fully functional, and they'll be CHARGING for the full version. That's pretty annoying. And as far as I know, there will be a DS game featuring just the tide pool phase.
While you may think that's a ridiculous car analogy, it's not that far from reality. My parents' Saturn car, for example, has a special chip in the key to deactivate the anti-theft immobilizer. Even if you get another key cut at a locksmith, the key will open the door but will not start the car. So you have to spend $25 to get a new key cut by the dealership. If Saturn went under and you lost your key, you could no longer use your car. You can't even hotwire it easily, cus that's the whole point of the immobilizer in the first place.
Except that in this case it would be perfectly legal to get a mechanic to go and rip out the immobilizer circuit, whereas it's against the DCMA to strip the DRM from your WMA files. Then again, who cares about the legality, you can download a stripper to remove DRM from WMA files. It only works if you have the key in your "keyring", so people with MSN Music would have to strip it before changing OS or reinstalling their OS.
Wow, that is expensive. So given that it is such a valuable item, how much money is your negative comment costing the economy? Why do you hate capitalism and freedom???
Evolution does tell us how you get from one beastie to another. You can take a whole boat load of known species and toss together a philogenetic tree. Along each edge you see the genetic mutations that occured (in the model you built, not necessarialy in reality). Of course without DNA from fossils, and from all the intermediate species that didn't get fossilized, or at least the fossils haven't been discovered, all we have is leaf nodes, no (or few) internal nodes. Recently extinct species like mammoths and some of the human ancestors, we have partial DNA samples, at least. But mostly, we could be wrong about what the internal nodes were, and the order of some of the mutations. And in fact, likely are about most of them.
So you can put humans and single celled organisms and chimps and fish and lizards and everything on this tree. Statistical models will give you a "possible" link and a "possible" series of mutations. Along an edge there could have been any number of intermediate species, and there's no real way to know the order of mutations within that edge. With greater understanding perhaps it will be possible to narrow things down, by observing that a certain combonation would not be viable, perhaps. I don't know. But this tree lets you say "this critter doesn't exist anymore, its the ancestor to all these things. one of those things was an ancestor to these other things. and one of those things was an ancestor to primates, etc." and with high confidence this is correct. It even tells you the maximum likelyhood for when mutations occured, although you don't need to tell us that might not be correct. We know it probably isn't correct. But until we can collect DNA samples from extinct ancestor species, it's good enough.
ID is (or should be, I haven't look into it) that Evolution happened, but it was God who chose to make these mutations happen. Fine. I don't object, that's a valid religious hypothesis. It's not science though. Scientific observation is that give or take some variation, mutations are uniformly and independently random events. Perhaps God made these mutations happen in such a way that the overall distribution appears completely random when in fact it was designed, to test people's faith. Perhaps God was bored with omnipotence and decided to see how sweet of a universe he could build if he only allowed himself to change things by altering the outcome of random events. People do that with games. Half-Life crowbar challenge. Chronotrigger wooden sword challenge. But the belief that God controls all random chance, and is clever enough to do it in such a way that you never observe that it actually isn't random, isn't scientific. You can't prove it's wrong because the assumption is a being with infinite smarts is trying to make sure you can't prove it one way or the other. It doesn't predict anything other than what you know is what God wants you to know. It's no more meaningful from a scientific point of view than saying the entire universe was created right the instant you read this sentance, and all your memories prior to that are falsified so you don't suspect that you were only just created now. In fact why now? Why not in 3 years time? Perhaps the universe still doesn't exist and we're all just memories of our future (real) selves. Still don't exist yet. Any belief in a flavour of creationism further than what I described (God fixing the dice) is just steps towards the ultimate theory of only being created this instant. If life was created seperately, then it means the genetic evidence of speciation events and genetic divergance were created to trick people. Or I guess it means that God designed life with Gene++ and we're just seeing evidence inheritance and overridden operators. But he must dislike copy&paste because there is lots of reinventing the wheel in separate genetic lines that could have been solved with a quick Ctrl+C Ctrl+V. Maybe not. Maybe it was a team effort, maybe he got the angels to form coding teams and tackledifferent
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Even in your example, it is the seller of the home who is at fault, and the owner for not reading the manual. Not the person who accepted the invitation. Especially given the fact that Windows XP will automatically use any unsecured WiFi it can find, and its technically difficult to stop it from doing so even if you realize it's happening at all!
MY router had WEP enabled out of the box. On the bottom is a removable sticker put there by the factory. It has a copy of the serial #, the device-specific WEP key, and the device-specific default password. It came with a nice thick manual, and a single sided single page colourful "quick start" card that tells you about the sticker and how to use this WEP key in Windows or on a Mac. Every WiFi router should be this way, and should have been from the start. If you can't read this ONE card telling you how to get started, you don't get Internet. Tough break.
They aren't a very good developer if they don't know about the key combination to do a full firmware restore. It's only "bricked" if you don't have access to a computer.
They don't even bother with making sure the movie flops. For example, did you know that films like Spiderman 1 usually lose millions, even hundreds of millions. The method is simple. You take your accounting books. You see "Oh, it cost us $50M to make the movie" then you wait until its in theaters. Oh SHIT FUCK ASS SHIT SHIT SHIT it made $150M! That's A-fucking-mazing. And the governments going to take it! So QUICK, warm up your pens, it's time to write down $250M as your salary in that column you left blank. *phew*, now the film lost $150M and you can apply to the government for an emergency bailout. Too bad to Stan Lee and Marvel Comics, since the film lost money you don't get your contracted share of the profits. The IRS doesn't care because the individuals still pay taxes until the use their own loopholes to get out of them. I don't think that in the past 50 years at least, there has been a single movie in the USA that has made even a single cent thanks to the power of fraud. Sir Alec Guiness didn't get paid for his role in Star Wars for the same reason, he was suckered into a contract that paid him a share of the profits, and of course we all remember how hard Star Wars tanked, that's why they couldn't afford to make any more.
So no, the plot for "The Producers" doesn't really happen, but that's only because "The Producers" incorrectly assumed that the IRS and the FBI would care about multimillion dollar accounting fraud, and the scamming of investors and contracted employees.
No, they are claiming trademark on "t-mobile", which is their company's name and registered trademark. The issue is that the website noticed that their name ends in "t-mobile", although the "t" is part of another word. So they changed just the "t-mobile" to be in "T-mobile"'s company colours. Its like there was a website called "Backslash Dotage" for some reason, and one day out of the blue they decided that just "slash Dot" would appear in teal, while the rest of their name remained black. One might think they were trying to call attention to that part of their name in particular? A trademarked portion, perhaps? And the "random" choice of colour might be somewhat less than random? If /.'s compalined would they be trying to say that they own teal?