There's worst. An it is an insult to anyone who speaks French: cédérom (cederom, in case you can't see the accents). CD-ROM means something. Now cederom is the correct way to speel the word. Stupid eh? Cederom. Yeah right....
Geez....why can't the legislatures see we're freaking taxed ENOUGH Geez....why can't the legislatures see we're freaking taxed ENOUGH
No you're not -- you still make money right? So you can be taxed MORE.
Sales tax here is like 9%...over and over and over againHeh. It's even worse here. I'm in Montreal. The federal govt taxes 7% on products and services. Then, the province taxes that (the price + the federal tax) 7,5%. So you federal tax is taxed by the province ([sum * 1.07] * 1.075). That's a fucking joke, but it's not that funny though. People with brains may start a company under their name and get their taxes back. But otherwise, you're being raped big time.
Especially when you are there, scared to hell and back hoping 1) you respond fast enough for the asshole and 2) the asshole does not get pissed because you didn't give him enough money.
If you have your gun, will you 1) turn around, grab your gun, arm it, aim and fire fast enough for the asshole who had the gun on the back of your head ready to shoot and 2) not hit an innocent bystander?
Do not dare attempt to demean my arguments and my feelings - especially since you seem to have ZERO clue about a real life and death situation involving this topic.
Yes I've been in such situation, plus I've been in the armed forces and I've played with weapons enough to hope no one who does not receive a serious formation on their use and the safety of weapons and who isn't extremely disciplined can cary a gun. It is just WAY too easy to lose temper or to be angry about something/one and grab the gun to shoot. And having a gun pointed at the back of your head is the sort of situation in which you try not to move at all, unless you're used to this or very dumb.
Try and run from a group of kids who are surrounding you with bats or knives - lets see how far you will get. ANd see how many people are willing to jump in and save you - you will find people are not up to getting involved for fear of their safety.This however, is a good point. No one will actualy come and help me. I know that. But if many people cannot even jump in and save someone from a kid with a knife, why in hell should we trust these same people enough to let them cary GUNS? What will they do with the guns? Nothing? Shoot the kid with the knife and hit the victim instead?
Sorry, but I don't get this. People aren't even responsible enough to use their fucking flashers when they change lane. They drive in snow storm like on a racetrack. You want them to cary guns? I'm very happy to live in a place where we are not so obsessed with the concept of owning guns and shooting everything. I also find stupid those who think passing laws against guns will prevent criminals from having guns. However, I see only more risks, accidents and murders if Joe Shmoe is alowed to carry his gun to work.
Because I could be raped/brutalized/beaten it is OK to cary a gun and wave it around, in the middle of a city? What are the chances of this happening to me anyway? Shouldn't I also carry some friggin-hard umbrella in case a meteor falls on me? Maybe I'll just stop driving my car too. You know, I could have an accident. Or would you suggest I carry a gun in my car to shoot the bastard who caused the accident?
Seriously, those arguments are a bit silly, IMHO. If not silly, they're definately too paranoid to my taste. Besides, I live in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) and I see no reason to own and cary a gun "just in case". The more people fear other people and cary more guns, the more shootings will happen. Period.
If some kids feel like beating me, I'l try to run and scream for help. Or defend myself. But that is not likely to happen. And if it does, I certainly don't want these kids to beat me, take my gun and then shoot me.
it's not that easy. Researchers say that the greatest difficulty will be with the reading of information.
How about putting 10,000 of those sticked together and set up in a RAID-like manner? Wouldn't that 1) make it easier to read information 2) make it friggin fast to read information and 3) make it ultra-safe thanks to a crazy amount of redundancy?
I'm not too sure if this is possible, but I'm curious...
It's amazing how far we've come in the past 36 years
Yes. We've lost 3 entire crews and risked the lives of others. Apparently, the missions do not justify the risks involved nowadays. NASA cannot afford to make another mistake so the costs can only go up while paranoid security measures and fear of doing something wrong make it harder to send anyone into space.
Besides, Joe Sixpack is entertained enough with the unmanned missions and the high-res pictures they send back. So why should the well-paid people at NASA want to risk their jobs? The issue is not scientific exploration vs the risks involved, but how to not risk anything. And unfortunately, the curiosity that pushes man to accomplish heroic things involves risk and always will. It's just that a public-funded organisation will never have the balls to do that, to take the risks.
Fortunately, there are people with money, and other people with huge balls that have nothing to lose. That is the future of space exploration. Private companies will risk losing personnel while NASA is busy cancelling every project due to lack of budget and high risks involved. That's how far we've come in the past 36 years.
Maybe when people start PAYING for the software, they'll read the EULA. Maybe it's just me, but I don't know many people who paid for Windows -- or any software -- let alone read the EULA.
If the guy did it because of the game, then make him pay for what he did, and make sure he doesn't play that game every again. That's it.
Don't EVERY try to take MY freedom to play games I like because of some isolated morron with personnal problems. Blame the game all you want in this case, but don't blame the game for things that did not and will not happen.
...that you have to be a lawyer to actualy get to play this game. Blizzard seems to take matters a LOT too seriously, which consequently annoys players (their clients).
The game seems OK, but all the troubles associated to it turn me off. I would never feel I am part of that world, part of the story or part of anything associated to it, knowing the company is working against me to protect their IP rights and that my account is 100% under their control, with no regard for the fun I am supposed to have playing the game. Instead, they worry so much about piracy that they seem to forget it's supposed to be FUN.
Fuck that. I would never pay for this. I wouldn't give one cent to feel I'm a test dummy and that the hours I spend playing this game are Copyright Blizzard.
It would be interesting to name a few alternatives that are out there. Personaly, I've been using the basic version of winamp since... wow... forever it seems. And eventhough the fact that there will not be more updates does not really bothers me, I think it's a good occasion to review other similar (better?) programs and maybe switch for something else.
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Texas has a ban on dildos.
You guys give guns to your children for xmas, but you can't buy dildos. Whoa!
YES it's a blaaaahhhh... *
Once you have created it, it still only has the gravitational potential of a baseball. Not very menacing.
I'm curious: would you be willing to touch the thing? What would happen if you touch it with the tip of your finger?
Wow thanks! Je me rappelle pourtant au secondaire et au cégep de m'être fait corrigé et d'avoir perdu des points pour ça.
:)
Oh. And I can't even imagine asking for a DOC in a computer shop. Hehe
Weirder french terms are:
There's worst. An it is an insult to anyone who speaks French: cédérom (cederom, in case you can't see the accents). CD-ROM means something. Now cederom is the correct way to speel the word. Stupid eh? Cederom. Yeah right....
Geez....why can't the legislatures see we're freaking taxed ENOUGH Geez....why can't the legislatures see we're freaking taxed ENOUGH
No you're not -- you still make money right? So you can be taxed MORE.
Sales tax here is like 9%...over and over and over againHeh. It's even worse here. I'm in Montreal. The federal govt taxes 7% on products and services. Then, the province taxes that (the price + the federal tax) 7,5%. So you federal tax is taxed by the province ([sum * 1.07] * 1.075). That's a fucking joke, but it's not that funny though. People with brains may start a company under their name and get their taxes back. But otherwise, you're being raped big time.
Especially when you are there, scared to hell and back hoping 1) you respond fast enough for the asshole and 2) the asshole does not get pissed because you didn't give him enough money.
If you have your gun, will you 1) turn around, grab your gun, arm it, aim and fire fast enough for the asshole who had the gun on the back of your head ready to shoot and 2) not hit an innocent bystander?
Do not dare attempt to demean my arguments and my feelings - especially since you seem to have ZERO clue about a real life and death situation involving this topic.
Yes I've been in such situation, plus I've been in the armed forces and I've played with weapons enough to hope no one who does not receive a serious formation on their use and the safety of weapons and who isn't extremely disciplined can cary a gun. It is just WAY too easy to lose temper or to be angry about something/one and grab the gun to shoot. And having a gun pointed at the back of your head is the sort of situation in which you try not to move at all, unless you're used to this or very dumb.
Try and run from a group of kids who are surrounding you with bats or knives - lets see how far you will get. ANd see how many people are willing to jump in and save you - you will find people are not up to getting involved for fear of their safety.This however, is a good point. No one will actualy come and help me. I know that. But if many people cannot even jump in and save someone from a kid with a knife, why in hell should we trust these same people enough to let them cary GUNS? What will they do with the guns? Nothing? Shoot the kid with the knife and hit the victim instead?
Sorry, but I don't get this. People aren't even responsible enough to use their fucking flashers when they change lane. They drive in snow storm like on a racetrack. You want them to cary guns? I'm very happy to live in a place where we are not so obsessed with the concept of owning guns and shooting everything. I also find stupid those who think passing laws against guns will prevent criminals from having guns. However, I see only more risks, accidents and murders if Joe Shmoe is alowed to carry his gun to work.
Because I could be raped/brutalized/beaten it is OK to cary a gun and wave it around, in the middle of a city? What are the chances of this happening to me anyway? Shouldn't I also carry some friggin-hard umbrella in case a meteor falls on me? Maybe I'll just stop driving my car too. You know, I could have an accident. Or would you suggest I carry a gun in my car to shoot the bastard who caused the accident?
Seriously, those arguments are a bit silly, IMHO. If not silly, they're definately too paranoid to my taste. Besides, I live in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) and I see no reason to own and cary a gun "just in case". The more people fear other people and cary more guns, the more shootings will happen. Period.
If some kids feel like beating me, I'l try to run and scream for help. Or defend myself. But that is not likely to happen. And if it does, I certainly don't want these kids to beat me, take my gun and then shoot me.
I don't know what retard modded my comment as "flamebait". I was just asking how is it a bad thing that honest citizens would not have guns.
Can't we ask questions anymore on slashdot without some -nazis modding everything down because they don't agree?...
but the average *law abiding* citizen without. How is this a good thing?
How is it a bad thing?
it's not that easy. Researchers say that the greatest difficulty will be with the reading of information.
How about putting 10,000 of those sticked together and set up in a RAID-like manner? Wouldn't that 1) make it easier to read information 2) make it friggin fast to read information and 3) make it ultra-safe thanks to a crazy amount of redundancy?
I'm not too sure if this is possible, but I'm curious...
It's amazing how far we've come in the past 36 years
Yes. We've lost 3 entire crews and risked the lives of others. Apparently, the missions do not justify the risks involved nowadays. NASA cannot afford to make another mistake so the costs can only go up while paranoid security measures and fear of doing something wrong make it harder to send anyone into space.
Besides, Joe Sixpack is entertained enough with the unmanned missions and the high-res pictures they send back. So why should the well-paid people at NASA want to risk their jobs? The issue is not scientific exploration vs the risks involved, but how to not risk anything. And unfortunately, the curiosity that pushes man to accomplish heroic things involves risk and always will. It's just that a public-funded organisation will never have the balls to do that, to take the risks.
Fortunately, there are people with money, and other people with huge balls that have nothing to lose. That is the future of space exploration. Private companies will risk losing personnel while NASA is busy cancelling every project due to lack of budget and high risks involved. That's how far we've come in the past 36 years.
Yeah. The Vogons will be SO pissed!
People will still not read an EULA because
Maybe when people start PAYING for the software, they'll read the EULA. Maybe it's just me, but I don't know many people who paid for Windows -- or any software -- let alone read the EULA.
That'll be fixed when Lucas releases the next version of Episodes IV, V and VI :P
Linux bashing on Slashdot? ... Hehe. That'll be funny :)
If the guy did it because of the game, then make him pay for what he did, and make sure he doesn't play that game every again. That's it.
Don't EVERY try to take MY freedom to play games I like because of some isolated morron with personnal problems. Blame the game all you want in this case, but don't blame the game for things that did not and will not happen.
...that you have to be a lawyer to actualy get to play this game. Blizzard seems to take matters a LOT too seriously, which consequently annoys players (their clients).
The game seems OK, but all the troubles associated to it turn me off. I would never feel I am part of that world, part of the story or part of anything associated to it, knowing the company is working against me to protect their IP rights and that my account is 100% under their control, with no regard for the fun I am supposed to have playing the game. Instead, they worry so much about piracy that they seem to forget it's supposed to be FUN.
Fuck that. I would never pay for this. I wouldn't give one cent to feel I'm a test dummy and that the hours I spend playing this game are Copyright Blizzard.
It's inexcuable for the frelling SS to have been sending sensitive documents around in unencrypted emails.
:p
The SS? Don't these guys use Enigma?
BTW, the Black Hat's email address (and online identity) is ethics@netzero.net
Even more fun: G
Try this: http://www.roadragecards.com/samples.htm Rather convenient communications and the information travels at the speed of light. Booya.
Even in Canada they're called Smart and they're known to be produced by Daimler Chrysler. Never heard of Zap.
It would be interesting to name a few alternatives that are out there. Personaly, I've been using the basic version of winamp since ... wow... forever it seems. And eventhough the fact that there will not be more updates does not really bothers me, I think it's a good occasion to review other similar (better?) programs and maybe switch for something else.
So, what else have you been using?
... update their lists and consider Aluria's software as spyware.
Do they actualy realize that their tech guys will be called Automotive Business Unit Service Engineers? ABUSE, in case you haven't noticed. Funny :)