I've never seen a terrorist. To me, terrorists exist on television. What I have experienced are authority figures abusing power. Until terrorists stop hanging out with Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny and end up near me, I don't care how dangerous they are.
I'm more scared of the cops, even though I'm not a criminal.
Now at least these three kids and all of their friends will realize firsthand what sort of world they're coming into rather than having to wait until they're all grown up to figure it out like most people do (if they ever do). The people who start the action that fixes these sort of problems are often the same people who have suffered because of them.
My dad has a BA in math. When he graduated from college, he says he was offered a job figuring out flight paths of missiles. That's not what he ended up doing, but apparently that's something you could do with a degree in math. Although nowadays with computing power as available as it is and since the end of the Cold War, I suppose that those jobs are far less plentiful.
After all, they do make ATM's and security systems. As far as I know, the ATM's are quite secure, as should be the case with the security systems. This kind of fuckup from a company with a reputation for security is a sure sign of foul play.
I wasn't all that worried about Rodney King. The cops were definitely out of line, but Rodney King also deserved it. What's special about things like this is that these people don't deserve anything at all. Reminds me of what's happened to my own father a few times because of some bad cops that deserve to die.
I recall a time when he was talking to a police officer while standing on a paved surface during an ice storm. He almost always wears boat shoes, as he was on this particular day. He happened to be standing on a patch of ice and he slipped and fell. At the same time, one of his shoes flew off and hit the cop. Rather than help him to his feet, the officer arrested him for assaulting a police officer! The charge was soon dismissed, but it was of no consequence to the officer because he got off with nothing.
Another time, a former police officer was sitting next to a country road (unbeknownst to my father) trying to figure out who supposedly ran over him while he was bicycling there a few days before. He decides my dad's car looks like it was the one that hit him and writes down his license plate number. He tells the police department in the city in which he lives that my dad ran over him. A cop from that city arrives at our house and asks if he may inspect my dad's car. He agrees and the officer looks at it. "That car's in real good shape; there's no way it ran over a bicyclist." The next day, an officer from our own city comes and does the exact same thing. A few days after that, at around 10:30 at night, an officer shows up with a warrant for assault! My kindly father was then put into the back of the police car and taken down to the station. The magistrate decided he wasn't dangerous and could be let go. I had to come pick him up in the middle of the night in the hobo-ridden run down ghetto were the police department is. The charge was soon dropped.
Both of those charges were made, and both were quickly and clearly shown to be completely false. Why don't cops get charged with perjury?
If that was the case, the user would be putting batteries into two controllers instead of only one. Also, it should be that big of a deal since the cable is plugged into the controller instead of the console. It can be removed for games that don't need it, too.
You bet they've been investigating! They've been protecting the children from those baseball-playing steroid freaks!
"We really do live in a world of terror when due process no longer exists."
- JC Denton
Look at every generation and its parent generation. In every generation, most of the people in it are mundane Joes. Scientific superheroes can come from any background; it is up to the individual to decide what he will do with his life.
Tasteful and funny need not be the same. Also, if you want tasteful, the internet is the wrong place. I thought the joke was funny. Now just let me think up a few about cancer...
Hey, at least it's not as bad as the IGN article that said the Wii would be less powerful than the X-Box because its CPU runs at a lower frequency. I think it went something like this:
"X-Box had a 780 MHz Celeron but Wii's processor is only 745 MHz so that means that Wii won't support bump mapping! OMFG!"
Maybe that quote is paraphrased, but it's pretty damn close to an IGN article I read about a month ago that made it onto Slashdot. IGN should either hire some editors or be destroyed.
If the Wikipedia article is to be believed, there is no random track generator. There is the X cup, which randomly selects from around 70 crappy tracks, but they are actually not randomly generated.
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Now he's doing videos? Nobody wants to see his ugly face. It's bad enough that his articles end up here.
I've never seen a terrorist. To me, terrorists exist on television. What I have experienced are authority figures abusing power. Until terrorists stop hanging out with Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny and end up near me, I don't care how dangerous they are.
I'm more scared of the cops, even though I'm not a criminal.
With a name like "blue pill" you know it has to be fake. What is it? Blue pill, developed by h4XX, Inc.?
I knew E3 would die when I heard that they stopped allowing booth babes.
Now I can go make my own without all the hassle!
Now at least these three kids and all of their friends will realize firsthand what sort of world they're coming into rather than having to wait until they're all grown up to figure it out like most people do (if they ever do). The people who start the action that fixes these sort of problems are often the same people who have suffered because of them.
That game is quite amazing. I never thought Scorched Earth would transition into 3D so well. After all, it sure didn't work for Worms.
Everybody loves a good game of Scorched Earth, right?
My dad has a BA in math. When he graduated from college, he says he was offered a job figuring out flight paths of missiles. That's not what he ended up doing, but apparently that's something you could do with a degree in math. Although nowadays with computing power as available as it is and since the end of the Cold War, I suppose that those jobs are far less plentiful.
It says in the article that the external antennas he had looked at were either too weak or too expensive. This gets a strong, cheap antenna.
The RF key does not have a transmitter. It is read passively by the car. RFID tags and RF networks are apples and oranges.
After all, they do make ATM's and security systems. As far as I know, the ATM's are quite secure, as should be the case with the security systems. This kind of fuckup from a company with a reputation for security is a sure sign of foul play.
He deserves anything he gets.
I wasn't all that worried about Rodney King. The cops were definitely out of line, but Rodney King also deserved it. What's special about things like this is that these people don't deserve anything at all. Reminds me of what's happened to my own father a few times because of some bad cops that deserve to die.
I recall a time when he was talking to a police officer while standing on a paved surface during an ice storm. He almost always wears boat shoes, as he was on this particular day. He happened to be standing on a patch of ice and he slipped and fell. At the same time, one of his shoes flew off and hit the cop. Rather than help him to his feet, the officer arrested him for assaulting a police officer! The charge was soon dismissed, but it was of no consequence to the officer because he got off with nothing.
Another time, a former police officer was sitting next to a country road (unbeknownst to my father) trying to figure out who supposedly ran over him while he was bicycling there a few days before. He decides my dad's car looks like it was the one that hit him and writes down his license plate number. He tells the police department in the city in which he lives that my dad ran over him. A cop from that city arrives at our house and asks if he may inspect my dad's car. He agrees and the officer looks at it. "That car's in real good shape; there's no way it ran over a bicyclist." The next day, an officer from our own city comes and does the exact same thing. A few days after that, at around 10:30 at night, an officer shows up with a warrant for assault! My kindly father was then put into the back of the police car and taken down to the station. The magistrate decided he wasn't dangerous and could be let go. I had to come pick him up in the middle of the night in the hobo-ridden run down ghetto were the police department is. The charge was soon dropped.
Both of those charges were made, and both were quickly and clearly shown to be completely false. Why don't cops get charged with perjury?
If that was the case, the user would be putting batteries into two controllers instead of only one. Also, it should be that big of a deal since the cable is plugged into the controller instead of the console. It can be removed for games that don't need it, too.
You bet they've been investigating! They've been protecting the children from those baseball-playing steroid freaks! "We really do live in a world of terror when due process no longer exists." - JC Denton
Look at every generation and its parent generation. In every generation, most of the people in it are mundane Joes. Scientific superheroes can come from any background; it is up to the individual to decide what he will do with his life.
Apple and Microsoft are the same company. Republicans and Democrats are the same party. What are they? ILLUMINATI!
Tasteful and funny need not be the same. Also, if you want tasteful, the internet is the wrong place. I thought the joke was funny. Now just let me think up a few about cancer...
I don't have time to read the comments! I've got stuff to do, like post on other topics without reading them!
and I bet it has a motion sensitive lightgun controller or something crazy like that, too!
Also, anyone care to tell me what a lapboard is?
Hey, at least it's not as bad as the IGN article that said the Wii would be less powerful than the X-Box because its CPU runs at a lower frequency. I think it went something like this:
"X-Box had a 780 MHz Celeron but Wii's processor is only 745 MHz so that means that Wii won't support bump mapping! OMFG!"
Maybe that quote is paraphrased, but it's pretty damn close to an IGN article I read about a month ago that made it onto Slashdot. IGN should either hire some editors or be destroyed.
You spelled "warrant" wrong.
Sounds rad. I wish my 64 controllers were still in good shape and I was talented enough to unlock the X cup.
If the Wikipedia article is to be believed, there is no random track generator. There is the X cup, which randomly selects from around 70 crappy tracks, but they are actually not randomly generated.