I thought he'd want us to remember:
"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
--Thomas Jefferson
Is the muon detecter a passive system? If so, it would detect radiation as it propogates from a target object and not have to 'illuminate' or 'stimulate' it to return a result.
A few months back I purchased 2 copies of Battlefield:Vietnam from BestBuy.com(one for me and one for my bro). I installed my brother's copy first then went to install mine. When I went to input the CD-KEY I noticed that the case had 2 FRONT COVERS on it. No backcover - no CD-KEY. So I look in the manual for Tech Support Telephone # and hidden in the back in small print is the #. I call them up and get this elongated moronic message stating if your missing a CD-key to scan your CDs and proof-of-purchase reciept from the retailer and email the pics to them.Appearently this is a common problem In a few days, they would email me a CD-KEY. So that is what I did.
Sure enough, a few days later I get an email from this idiot at EA SUPPORT Named 'MIKE'. He says to me:
Dear EA Customer,
Having reviewed your support request I have determined that your scan of your CDs is fake and is readily available on the internet. Your not fooling anyone. No, I am not giving you a CD-KEY. I suggest you go to the retailer and return the game as this is not a warrenty issue
Regards,
Mike
This email pissed me off and prompted my rude reply.
Mike,
Where do you get off talking to me like that? What you sent to me must be the most unprofessional reply I have ever recieved from a major corporation. You called me a 'Customer' in the beginning of the email then you implied that I somehow obtained the game illegally. You contridicted yourself as well as make yourself look like an ignorant asshole. The scans are not from the internet as I personnally scanned them and is supported by the Best Buy Reciept in the same image you fool. Appearently you need to update your video drivers to allow for better desktop resolution. I will be calling your support center tomorrow morning to report you, your unprofessionalism, and your unwillingness to assist a paying customer. Oh, lest I forget, the product I recieved was missing an important componant (i.e. CD-KEY) rendering it useless. As it was manufactured improperly; this IS a warrenty issue. Perhaps you need more training.
May God have mercy on your soul & your job.
The next morning I called the support center and spoke with a supervisor. He agreeded with me that EA was responsible and promptly issued me a CD-Key.
I would like to see the Galaxy in which Star Wars takes place, undergo critical collapse and form a macro-super-massive non-rotating black hole. I'd pay to see that.
I live in NY and I also have Vonage. Am I to understand that this will include some taxes? Do you think NYS could add anymore taxes to my paycheck? Lets see what else they can tax me on:
1)Oxygen/Nitrogen Tax (for breathing)(.40 per cubic cm)
2)Toliet Paper Tax (for wiping bum) (.30 per sheet)
3)Keyboard Tax (.03 cents per key-press)
4)A federal tax (unnamed..maybe we'll call it 'Medicare') that allows for millions of other people to produce a 1/2 dozen children at everyone else's expense.
5)Taxing Tax ($3.00 flat rate applied to all taxes to facilitate taxing)
6) Citizin Tax (40% of total income)- Tax to dry up any other $ that a citizen might have to spend.
Why is NY State determined to rape me of all my hard earned cash? You would think that someone would get the picture and see that NY residents (as well as the rest of the US) are getting screwed with too much government.
I'm moving out of this blood-sucking state and settling on a remote island somewhere.
I question whether or not Spam is truely 'untraceable'. If the full wrath of the NSA was turned on spam, the spam-mails would probably cease relatively quickly.
According to Spamhaus the United States is the top producer of spam closely followed by China and South Korea.
Now I understand that, in the US, we have laws that protect an individuals privacy; hence Federal laws that allow prosecution of 'illegal spammers'. With regards to other countries; why not have an unoffical government agency to hack the spammers? It's obvious that most foreign spam is sent with the intent of defrauding Americans. Couldn't that be construed as an act of cyber-war?
How about this idea? Have all U.S. ISPs block IP addresses from Asia, if only for a day. I wonder how much spam would get kicked back and crash Asian Networks.
Interesting retort. I wouldn't want to be compared to virii (biological or virtual) either. I was just stirring the philosophical stew.
I'll assume you meant "...I resent being compared to a virus"
I'm sure your not the only one who would resent the comparison. Along the same lines of logic; Why then are so many people comfortable with the THEORY of our evolution from primates? Wouldn't that fit the same mold? I'm interested in your opinion.
We have wandered off topic...pity. In an (albeit, vain) attempt to restore course; The creation belief of Chinese are interesting enough.
While space travel and moon exloration furthers our cultures' quest for understanding of the universe, how may Chinese use science to test their creation theory? Or does the Chinese even bother to question things that are taught to them as children?
It was not my intention to sound 'hip' or give any indication that I cannot create my own analogies for the human race.
Remove the intelligence, the creativity, the free will, and the self-awareness that humans possess; and we are comparable to a virus. A self replicating organism living off of resources that are not our own.
Since China scraped plans for a moon landing; the moon-folk can rest assured that they will not be Politically Re-educated or run over by 20 ton tanks.
To deny ourselves the need to explore is to deny ourselves the one of the very things that makes us human.
There are many resources on the moon that we maybe able to utilize to better life here on this planet. Since us humans can be compared to a virus; we are almost finished sucking this planet dry, lets move to the next closest host.
No, you are not alone. Is the outcome of the strike going to translate into a cheaper cost of living here in NY, or will I have to sell my car to buy gas?
Well, I did alot of thinking about hurting their business model. I even tried to create an application that will fill forms with garbage data, submit it and repeat the process 1000 times. It didn't work but thats my fault. I'm a better lover than a coder. If anyone has written something like this, I might just buy it from you. I want revenge for the "WOMAN TAKE WILD RIDE ON HORSE C0.K" email that I got this morning.
If we destroy the business model of spam then we remove the incentive for sending billions of useless & annoying messages. I suppose authentication would work, but would require changing everything we know about email. Hey, while we are at it, let's change the fact that email passwords are sent in plain-text over pop3.
As many of you have said, it expires on May 20th. That's just a week away. If it gets extended then we may have a problem.
According to www.spamfilterreview.com;
12.4 BILLION...not million...BILLION emails per day in spam crosses wires. Thats 40% of total email sent over the entire internet. That is completely insaine.
I say let's legalize spam, this way the spammers dont have to hide their addresses. Then, when we find out who they are; we'll duct tape them to chairs and make them watch teletubbies for months on end with no sleep and no food.
"..water intoxication" or "hyponatremia" (low salt), water poisoning results when too much water is ingested in too short a time without replenishing electrolytes, particularly sodium and potassium."
Your brain will swell, push up against the walls of your skull and you go into a coma. Next thing ya know, you discover which one is true: evolution & creationism.
Let me understand this?
1) Mr. MAUGHAN gets in trouble for not playing by California's Accounting laws.
2) California State (the address is a.gov address) posts his information online so that people like me don't get ripped off by this idiot with a less-than-perfect record.
3) Goggle spiders crawl the site and index it.
4) Family of this guy obviously doesn't trust him so they look him up on goggle and find the record of ill repute.
5) Embarrassed, he cry's foul and sues the search engine for doing what it was designed to do?
How pathetic; I can understand how dirty laundry online may effect his business. But maybe if he had done the right thing in the first place, he wouldn't be in this situation.
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I thought he'd want us to remember: "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." --Thomas Jefferson
What if a majority of people don't respect the law barring people from murdering their neighbors?
Is that law unjust?
Is the muon detecter a passive system? If so, it would detect radiation as it propogates from a target object and not have to 'illuminate' or 'stimulate' it to return a result.
So that means I don't have to quiver in front of a RIAA gestapo agent while I agree to pay $5,000 and appear in a "Don't Download Infomercial?"
Ah PRAM. Sweet PRAM.
I'll have 3 large PRAMs with a side of 1 TB bandwidth...Thank you...Come again.
What about with ketchup? Will they eat it with ketchup???? Lots of people will eat anything with ketchup on it, maybe they will too.
And what kind of storage vs space as well as bandwidth can we expect out of memory developed with this techology?
A few months back I purchased 2 copies of Battlefield:Vietnam from BestBuy.com(one for me and one for my bro). I installed my brother's copy first then went to install mine. When I went to input the CD-KEY I noticed that the case had 2 FRONT COVERS on it. No backcover - no CD-KEY. So I look in the manual for Tech Support Telephone # and hidden in the back in small print is the #. I call them up and get this elongated moronic message stating if your missing a CD-key to scan your CDs and proof-of-purchase reciept from the retailer and email the pics to them.Appearently this is a common problem In a few days, they would email me a CD-KEY. So that is what I did.
Sure enough, a few days later I get an email from this idiot at EA SUPPORT Named 'MIKE'. He says to me:
Dear EA Customer,
Having reviewed your support request I have determined that your scan of your CDs is fake and is readily available on the internet. Your not fooling anyone. No, I am not giving you a CD-KEY. I suggest you go to the retailer and return the game as this is not a warrenty issue
Regards,
Mike
This email pissed me off and prompted my rude reply.
Mike,
Where do you get off talking to me like that? What you sent to me must be the most unprofessional reply I have ever recieved from a major corporation. You called me a 'Customer' in the beginning of the email then you implied that I somehow obtained the game illegally. You contridicted yourself as well as make yourself look like an ignorant asshole. The scans are not from the internet as I personnally scanned them and is supported by the Best Buy Reciept in the same image you fool. Appearently you need to update your video drivers to allow for better desktop resolution. I will be calling your support center tomorrow morning to report you, your unprofessionalism, and your unwillingness to assist a paying customer. Oh, lest I forget, the product I recieved was missing an important componant (i.e. CD-KEY) rendering it useless. As it was manufactured improperly; this IS a warrenty issue. Perhaps you need more training.
May God have mercy on your soul & your job.
The next morning I called the support center and spoke with a supervisor. He agreeded with me that EA was responsible and promptly issued me a CD-Key.
I've noticed that 71% of the spam I recieve has horrible engrish in it. Such as:
"We give us and you much good porn"
HAHA...Stupid.
I would like to see the Galaxy in which Star Wars takes place, undergo critical collapse and form a macro-super-massive non-rotating black hole. I'd pay to see that.
Absolutely Wonderful!
I live in NY and I also have Vonage. Am I to understand that this will include some taxes? Do you think NYS could add anymore taxes to my paycheck? Lets see what else they can tax me on:
1)Oxygen/Nitrogen Tax (for breathing)(.40 per cubic cm)
2)Toliet Paper Tax (for wiping bum) (.30 per sheet)
3)Keyboard Tax (.03 cents per key-press)
4)A federal tax (unnamed..maybe we'll call it 'Medicare') that allows for millions of other people to produce a 1/2 dozen children at everyone else's expense.
5)Taxing Tax ($3.00 flat rate applied to all taxes to facilitate taxing)
6) Citizin Tax (40% of total income)- Tax to dry up any other $ that a citizen might have to spend.
Why is NY State determined to rape me of all my hard earned cash? You would think that someone would get the picture and see that NY residents (as well as the rest of the US) are getting screwed with too much government.
I'm moving out of this blood-sucking state and settling on a remote island somewhere.
Then perhaps a pass-thru would enable legitimate traffic. Yet, crafty-spammers would just find a way to mask their traffic as legit.
Ah...dreaming....
I question whether or not Spam is truely 'untraceable'. If the full wrath of the NSA was turned on spam, the spam-mails would probably cease relatively quickly. According to Spamhaus the United States is the top producer of spam closely followed by China and South Korea.
Now I understand that, in the US, we have laws that protect an individuals privacy; hence Federal laws that allow prosecution of 'illegal spammers'. With regards to other countries; why not have an unoffical government agency to hack the spammers? It's obvious that most foreign spam is sent with the intent of defrauding Americans. Couldn't that be construed as an act of cyber-war?
How about this idea? Have all U.S. ISPs block IP addresses from Asia, if only for a day. I wonder how much spam would get kicked back and crash Asian Networks.
Interesting retort. I wouldn't want to be compared to virii (biological or virtual) either. I was just stirring the philosophical stew.
I'll assume you meant "...I resent being compared to a virus"
I'm sure your not the only one who would resent the comparison. Along the same lines of logic; Why then are so many people comfortable with the THEORY of our evolution from primates? Wouldn't that fit the same mold? I'm interested in your opinion.
We have wandered off topic...pity. In an (albeit, vain) attempt to restore course; The creation belief of Chinese are interesting enough.
While space travel and moon exloration furthers our cultures' quest for understanding of the universe, how may Chinese use science to test their creation theory? Or does the Chinese even bother to question things that are taught to them as children?
Forgive my dual post.
It was not my intention to sound 'hip' or give any indication that I cannot create my own analogies for the human race.
Remove the intelligence, the creativity, the free will, and the self-awareness that humans possess; and we are comparable to a virus. A self replicating organism living off of resources that are not our own.
I did agree with you..funny you said that as I was going to say "Couldn't agree with you more."
I don't intend on moving off earth either. I'd rather have my extra-planet resources delivered in 30 minutes or less.
Since China scraped plans for a moon landing; the moon-folk can rest assured that they will not be Politically Re-educated or run over by 20 ton tanks.
To deny ourselves the need to explore is to deny ourselves the one of the very things that makes us human.
There are many resources on the moon that we maybe able to utilize to better life here on this planet. Since us humans can be compared to a virus; we are almost finished sucking this planet dry, lets move to the next closest host.
No, you are not alone. Is the outcome of the strike going to translate into a cheaper cost of living here in NY, or will I have to sell my car to buy gas?
Always spell check your posts when your trying to make other people look stupid.
Mr. Foot, May I introduce you to Mr. Mouth?
HAHA
I almost fell off my chair and landed on my UPS when I read Molina's post.
HAHAHAHA
Well, I did alot of thinking about hurting their business model. I even tried to create an application that will fill forms with garbage data, submit it and repeat the process 1000 times. It didn't work but thats my fault. I'm a better lover than a coder. If anyone has written something like this, I might just buy it from you. I want revenge for the "WOMAN TAKE WILD RIDE ON HORSE C0.K" email that I got this morning.
If we destroy the business model of spam then we remove the incentive for sending billions of useless & annoying messages. I suppose authentication would work, but would require changing everything we know about email. Hey, while we are at it, let's change the fact that email passwords are sent in plain-text over pop3.
As many of you have said, it expires on May 20th. That's just a week away. If it gets extended then we may have a problem.
According to www.spamfilterreview.com;
12.4 BILLION...not million...BILLION emails per day in spam crosses wires. Thats 40% of total email sent over the entire internet. That is completely insaine.
I say let's legalize spam, this way the spammers dont have to hide their addresses. Then, when we find out who they are; we'll duct tape them to chairs and make them watch teletubbies for months on end with no sleep and no food.
Yes, it is true....both the cause & effect.
"..water intoxication" or "hyponatremia" (low salt), water poisoning results when too much water is ingested in too short a time without replenishing electrolytes, particularly sodium and potassium."
Your brain will swell, push up against the walls of your skull and you go into a coma. Next thing ya know, you discover which one is true: evolution & creationism.
Let me understand this? 1) Mr. MAUGHAN gets in trouble for not playing by California's Accounting laws. 2) California State (the address is a .gov address) posts his information online so that people like me don't get ripped off by this idiot with a less-than-perfect record.
3) Goggle spiders crawl the site and index it.
4) Family of this guy obviously doesn't trust him so they look him up on goggle and find the record of ill repute.
5) Embarrassed, he cry's foul and sues the search engine for doing what it was designed to do?
How pathetic; I can understand how dirty laundry online may effect his business. But maybe if he had done the right thing in the first place, he wouldn't be in this situation.