Some people consider thwacking a small white ball with a large metallic or wooden stick, a crooked stick mind you, a sport. Sport is a very BROAD word. That has become a synonym with "activity". Swimming is aparently a sport. Now, is swimming the distance of an American Football field in under a minute a testimate to a person's ability? I'd say sure, that son of a bitch is a great swimmer. Is it a sport? I'd say no, unless they did it because crocodiles were chasing them down while they did it.
The western monothestic religions cannot co-exist with science. It just won't happen. Ask Galielo what the Catholic church thought about a Heliocentric universe, or Darwin's idea of evolution.
Over time a scientific theory will be accepted by religion, and in fact added into their religious canon, but the fact remains, when a new theory comes about, it takes a while.
Then you have the extremists, like the fundamentalists. They'll never accept that evolution happened. They'll never accept that this planet is older than six thousand years old. Oh, and they'll never broaden their views, either.
I'm a big fan of the Splinter Cell series. I love the stealth genre, and I was first in line to buy the game after I played the demo a few weeks ago. It's still extremely unstable, however. I don't mean unstable like SC2, where the game would crash after browsing for more than 10 seconds for a multiplayer game to join, more like... piss poor porting. I was getting blue screens during play, until I read on a forum to uncheck one of the advanced video options, that only prevented the blue screens while the game was running, it would then do it every time I quit the game. After a few days of doing that, I played it again, and it said my saves were corrupted. Needless to say, I'm not impressed with Ubisoft.
I feel sorry for the guy. Is he going to have to live in the shadow of his grandfather for the rest of his life? This is an amazing piece of engineering, and he's going to go down in the books as "The grandson of the bestest oceanographer to come out of France." That's not very fair.
Actully, Visa and Mastercard cover the expenses lost to fraud to both customer AND the business that got frauded. One of the other two or maybe both, refuses to give compensation to the business, so they eat it out of their own pocket. That's one of the biggest reasons why Visa and Mastercard are ALWAYS accepted, Discover and American Express are less so.
That 33-66% increase in purchases wasn't enough of an incentive for McDonalds to accept cards until a few years ago. Credit Card verification takes time, and McDonalds is in the fast food business.
Just assume they'll store all that data on the old type punch cards, or those big drums from before I was a fetus. Then, the LoC can retain its position as the largest unit of mass, data, AND volume.
MONITOR YOUR CHILDREN WHILE THEY ARE ON THE INTERNET.
I know it's a crazy notion to keep an eye on your children, but deal with it. If *I* want to look at porn all day, it's my right as a a citizen of the United States to do so. You don't have a right to stop it. If you don't want to see any naked women, fine. I don't want you to cause potential lag on the websites I'm browsing. There's gobs of software on the internet, which is usually linked to on the site agreement of any porn site, that you can install, and thus prevent your children from doing something you object to. You're a parent, and it's your right to tell them what to do on your internet connection. But you don't pay MY bills, therefore if I want to look, you shouldn't have any right to tell me.
The FCC censors shit to a horrible degree already. If they start telling cable companies how to run things, when they arn't broadcasted over a radio wave, they're not doing what they're supposed to be doing.
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People love to blow things out of perportions. Just look at the explosive hazard that the Pinto posed. Or rather, didn't.
Some people consider thwacking a small white ball with a large metallic or wooden stick, a crooked stick mind you, a sport. Sport is a very BROAD word. That has become a synonym with "activity". Swimming is aparently a sport. Now, is swimming the distance of an American Football field in under a minute a testimate to a person's ability? I'd say sure, that son of a bitch is a great swimmer. Is it a sport? I'd say no, unless they did it because crocodiles were chasing them down while they did it.
The western monothestic religions cannot co-exist with science. It just won't happen. Ask Galielo what the Catholic church thought about a Heliocentric universe, or Darwin's idea of evolution.
Over time a scientific theory will be accepted by religion, and in fact added into their religious canon, but the fact remains, when a new theory comes about, it takes a while.
Then you have the extremists, like the fundamentalists. They'll never accept that evolution happened. They'll never accept that this planet is older than six thousand years old. Oh, and they'll never broaden their views, either.
10. Journeyman Project is t3h roxors!!!!!
Dude, +5 classic game reference.
I miss that series.
HTML is your friend, m'kay?
I'm a big fan of the Splinter Cell series. I love the stealth genre, and I was first in line to buy the game after I played the demo a few weeks ago. It's still extremely unstable, however. I don't mean unstable like SC2, where the game would crash after browsing for more than 10 seconds for a multiplayer game to join, more like... piss poor porting. I was getting blue screens during play, until I read on a forum to uncheck one of the advanced video options, that only prevented the blue screens while the game was running, it would then do it every time I quit the game. After a few days of doing that, I played it again, and it said my saves were corrupted. Needless to say, I'm not impressed with Ubisoft.
Cliff has all of his stored on a CD, but his drive failed yesterday. Oh the irony...
So tell me, what is the ratio of reviews rejected that are pro-PSP vs anti-PSP?
Agreed.. I must go with breasts.
In a word: no.
I feel sorry for the guy. Is he going to have to live in the shadow of his grandfather for the rest of his life? This is an amazing piece of engineering, and he's going to go down in the books as "The grandson of the bestest oceanographer to come out of France." That's not very fair.
This must be some odd way of getting first posts... I'm amused.
Two words...
Goatse... and trolls.
The guys at Penny Arcade drew a comic about it.
Actully, Visa and Mastercard cover the expenses lost to fraud to both customer AND the business that got frauded. One of the other two or maybe both, refuses to give compensation to the business, so they eat it out of their own pocket. That's one of the biggest reasons why Visa and Mastercard are ALWAYS accepted, Discover and American Express are less so.
That 33-66% increase in purchases wasn't enough of an incentive for McDonalds to accept cards until a few years ago. Credit Card verification takes time, and McDonalds is in the fast food business.
That business model worked wonders for SCO...
Just assume they'll store all that data on the old type punch cards, or those big drums from before I was a fetus. Then, the LoC can retain its position as the largest unit of mass, data, AND volume.
Too lazy to RTFA, but I assume this may hold a place for curing cancer?
MONITOR YOUR CHILDREN WHILE THEY ARE ON THE INTERNET. I know it's a crazy notion to keep an eye on your children, but deal with it. If *I* want to look at porn all day, it's my right as a a citizen of the United States to do so. You don't have a right to stop it. If you don't want to see any naked women, fine. I don't want you to cause potential lag on the websites I'm browsing. There's gobs of software on the internet, which is usually linked to on the site agreement of any porn site, that you can install, and thus prevent your children from doing something you object to. You're a parent, and it's your right to tell them what to do on your internet connection. But you don't pay MY bills, therefore if I want to look, you shouldn't have any right to tell me.
Firefox thinks it's a google "I'm feeling lucky" search for HTTP:// which, as any good /.er knows sends you to microsoft.com
I'm suprised sco.com isn't on the list.
What? Oh you mean hate site, not HATED site. Gotcha.
It very well could be, considering it's from a formus Soviet Russian.
Queue the jokes..
The FCC censors shit to a horrible degree already. If they start telling cable companies how to run things, when they arn't broadcasted over a radio wave, they're not doing what they're supposed to be doing.
As Eric Idle said:
"Fuck you very much The FCC."
Careful, when infinite probability is involved, bad things will happen.