Actually, our complete inability to model or predict something is the way that we determine that it is random. This makes the distinction between "random" and "apparently random" nonexistent. When something appears to be random (to *everyone*), it is.
The solution? Dip a Q-tip in rubbing alcohol (isopropyl) (probably other solvents work too), and scrub the living hell out of the cartridge contacts. The end of the Q-tip will be almost black, that's how much crap is preventing you from playing your game.
Actually, isopropyl rubbing alcohol (the kind intended for cleaning human skin) usually has a not-insignificant amount of various oils in it, which stay on the contacts and don't improve things in the long-term. If you look hard enough you can find denatured alcohol (usually used to "dry" water up in contaminated tanks of gasoline), which won't leave deposits on your cartridges' contacts. Usually comes in a steel can and you have to puncture the top with a screwdriver (it evaporates pretty damn fast without a good cover).
As far as I can tell the obscenity rule was first created by the supreme court in 1957. They saw free speech that they didn't like - they didn't like it so much that they decided to invent an obscenity exemption out of thin air to GRANT THEMSELVES the ability to make it illegal.
Well, shit. I hate misspeaking, or being wrong (who doesn't). I hope if you read all of my post that you understand I'm definitely a first amendment advocate. I agree with your point of view, and I think speech should be free irrespective of people's individual views.
I got a little too irritated with the post I was replying to, and lost some of my ability to think rationally...I'm sure it'll happen again, but I'll try to keep it to a minimum.
"Obscenity" is a concept that was turned in to a dirty word and some associated laws by large groups of individuals that pretended to be offended by naked people. Hence, the large number of "Girls gone wild!" videos, and instances of reality TV shows with chicks in bikinis...watch the ratings when a show that features "partial nudity" shows on prime-time TV. If people could get past the old "naked=bad" thing maybe we could argue about more important things like "Why did the aliens build the pyramids?"
Actually, I think crack might as well be legal (tax the shit out of it, and government regulate it, like booze and cigarettes). Murder is definitely not a first amendment issue...the right to life is pretty clearly spelled out as one of the inalienable ones that are supposed to be self-evident, so I don't know where you're going with that argument.
G.W. ancd Co. explicitly didn't prohibit any kind of speech because they were fed up with being told what they couldn't say. I can think of a few paintings that pre-date the USA that you would probably deem inappropriate for children to see because of nudity.
If you don't like porn, don't buy any. Nobody said the guy got arrested for hanging mags with "Hot Teen Pussies" splashed across the front of them out for all to see. I doubt you could find many (if any) places where this is the case except for those establishments that trade solely in adult-oriented material.
I consider my self to be a moderate...people on both sides of things routinely piss me off, and that's just the thing...the US isn't full of liberals or conservatives...most of us fall pretty much in the middle, with some differences on particular issues. That said, the majority was explicitly denied the right to force the minority to keep quiet. The fact that I live in Texas, can do so without fear of recrimination or legal woes, but still disagree on one or more points with most of the people around me is a testament to the foresight of our founding fathers in this matter.
The fact that the founding fathers left obscenity up to the states was another stroke of genius, because it ensures that people of differing viewpoints could live places where there were others of a similar mindset. Obscenity tends to be the kind of issue that gets people all riled up, and because of that, different places have different standards on the matter. The problem is (and there's still not enough info that I've seen to speak clearly on this), *if* all the person in question did was to sell an adult magazine to an adult, why was he arrested? It's legal to buy porn in Texas...I know...there are billboards for "adult megastore!" scattered throughout Dallas. There are even *more* billboards for the various men's clubs around the city. No need to change the minds of the populace here, they already support a variety of enterprizes that center around naked people and sex.
It's a pointless statement...the constitution outlines what we're specifically allowed to do, not what we're prevented from doing. It also says we can do anything not expressly mentioned in the constitution or its amendments unless it's prohibited by the states. The people have the power to do X by default.
The intent of the idea of free speech is to ensure that the minority have a way to express themselves without being censored. I'd say that leaves little question over whether something is free speech. Free speech (in the USA) is specifically that that doesn't infringe on the life, liberty, or pursuit of someone else's happiness.
Anything I say, for instance "Fuck off!" that does not endanger those things mentioned above (I suppose if I said it loud enough in someone's ear, it might loosely fall into the first category, but that's a biiiiig stretch) is fine, as far as the first amendment goes.
so,
1) The intent of the free speech amendment is not there to be furthered, it's there so people's speech cannot be censored
2) The unhappy people need to get the fuck over it.
The decision of the majority, insofar as it relates to rights granted by the constitution and it's amendments, can't be a matter of how many people will be unhappy. The easy (and fucking scary) way around that would be another constitutional amendment.
Actually, the reason America was founded was that a bunch of Puritans that were so uptight that nobody wanted them in England anymore said "fine", and sailed across the ocean to a place that they could be chaste and angry in peace. After that, a bunch of other people with less rigid morals said "hey, it's not too bad over here...let's stay". The fight over whose way is better has been going on since then.
Nah...it'll be OpenGroupware that kills exchange, since it's free. It has the current downside of being incomplete and sort of a bitch to install, but hey, if you're already paying your linux sysadmin a salary he likes, no extra cost.
Okay...haven't seen this really spelled out yet, so here's my $.02.
I think right now, what keeps some users from switching to linux (speaking about reasonably computer-savvy folks) is that there's no "Find-download-click-install" routine that's consistent for Linux. Windows has a couple of fairly streamlined installers that make it simple for users to "make things go". If I built a RedHat box for my mom and said "Hey, go install GIMP...I forgot to include it...you can get it at blah.com", she'd likely find the file she needed, download it, and either not be able to find where it went (save to desktop, anyone?), or not be able to figure out how to install it. "tar" is not something that a fairly experienced windows user understands. Usability and quality of applications in Linux has become stellar, but it's time to get everybody on one page and make it REEEEEEEEAAAALLY easy for people to actually install stuff. How many Windows users would have installed if they had to do it via a command-line?
The thing about going reeeeeeeeeeeeally far left or right is that you eventually end up at the same place. Insane, babbling, and with people staring at you and crossing the street to avoid any excess saliva.
So, you're saying that 'conservative' greed ('Let me keep my money') is worse than 'liberal' greed ('Let me keep *your* money')? How so?
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Umm...you can't cut taxes past zero...after that it's called welfare...not that I have anything against welfare, I just would rather not have it come in the form of a check from the IRS.
I ain't rich (yet?), but I suppose with 3 kids and 60K in salary I'm not poor anymore (much better than my army pay). That said, if you personally ask me for money, and I have it, I might just give you some. Take it from me without giving me a choice, however, and it kind of pisses me off.
Hey, wasn't this thread about the Net or something?
Damn straight...I probably fall into the enough's enough category. I've sent individual letters to abuse@pickacrappydomainname.com before, but watching the process they're going through is insightful and inspirational...it'd be SO nice to at least have a valid e-mail address to complain to sometimes...
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From what I've seen in my last two jobs, the main thing that the corporate types use a lot is the shared contacts and calendars in Exchange. That plus windows' integrated authentication makes it hard to gain any momentum away from Exchange. However you look at it, Exchange is *extremely* well integrated with windows, maybe bloated, buggy, and irritating, but well integrated.
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Actually, our complete inability to model or predict something is the way that we determine that it is random. This makes the distinction between "random" and "apparently random" nonexistent. When something appears to be random (to *everyone*), it is.
Umm...that would be "Yes, the ice displaces an amount of water equal to it's own weight, and that's why some of it sticks out above the water."
It'd be a raman, right?
Or would it be a habit?
The solution? Dip a Q-tip in rubbing alcohol (isopropyl) (probably other solvents work too), and scrub the living hell out of the cartridge contacts. The end of the Q-tip will be almost black, that's how much crap is preventing you from playing your game.
Actually, isopropyl rubbing alcohol (the kind intended for cleaning human skin) usually has a not-insignificant amount of various oils in it, which stay on the contacts and don't improve things in the long-term. If you look hard enough you can find denatured alcohol (usually used to "dry" water up in contaminated tanks of gasoline), which won't leave deposits on your cartridges' contacts. Usually comes in a steel can and you have to puncture the top with a screwdriver (it evaporates pretty damn fast without a good cover).
As far as I can tell the obscenity rule was first created by the supreme court in 1957. They saw free speech that they didn't like - they didn't like it so much that they decided to invent an obscenity exemption out of thin air to GRANT THEMSELVES the ability to make it illegal.
Well, shit. I hate misspeaking, or being wrong (who doesn't). I hope if you read all of my post that you understand I'm definitely a first amendment advocate. I agree with your point of view, and I think speech should be free irrespective of people's individual views.
I got a little too irritated with the post I was replying to, and lost some of my ability to think rationally...I'm sure it'll happen again, but I'll try to keep it to a minimum.
"Obscenity" is a concept that was turned in to a dirty word and some associated laws by large groups of individuals that pretended to be offended by naked people. Hence, the large number of "Girls gone wild!" videos, and instances of reality TV shows with chicks in bikinis...watch the ratings when a show that features "partial nudity" shows on prime-time TV. If people could get past the old "naked=bad" thing maybe we could argue about more important things like "Why did the aliens build the pyramids?"
Actually, I think crack might as well be legal (tax the shit out of it, and government regulate it, like booze and cigarettes). Murder is definitely not a first amendment issue...the right to life is pretty clearly spelled out as one of the inalienable ones that are supposed to be self-evident, so I don't know where you're going with that argument.
G.W. ancd Co. explicitly didn't prohibit any kind of speech because they were fed up with being told what they couldn't say. I can think of a few paintings that pre-date the USA that you would probably deem inappropriate for children to see because of nudity.
If you don't like porn, don't buy any. Nobody said the guy got arrested for hanging mags with "Hot Teen Pussies" splashed across the front of them out for all to see. I doubt you could find many (if any) places where this is the case except for those establishments that trade solely in adult-oriented material.
I consider my self to be a moderate...people on both sides of things routinely piss me off, and that's just the thing...the US isn't full of liberals or conservatives...most of us fall pretty much in the middle, with some differences on particular issues. That said, the majority was explicitly denied the right to force the minority to keep quiet. The fact that I live in Texas, can do so without fear of recrimination or legal woes, but still disagree on one or more points with most of the people around me is a testament to the foresight of our founding fathers in this matter.
The fact that the founding fathers left obscenity up to the states was another stroke of genius, because it ensures that people of differing viewpoints could live places where there were others of a similar mindset. Obscenity tends to be the kind of issue that gets people all riled up, and because of that, different places have different standards on the matter. The problem is (and there's still not enough info that I've seen to speak clearly on this), *if* all the person in question did was to sell an adult magazine to an adult, why was he arrested? It's legal to buy porn in Texas...I know...there are billboards for "adult megastore!" scattered throughout Dallas. There are even *more* billboards for the various men's clubs around the city. No need to change the minds of the populace here, they already support a variety of enterprizes that center around naked people and sex.
It's a pointless statement...the constitution outlines what we're specifically allowed to do, not what we're prevented from doing. It also says we can do anything not expressly mentioned in the constitution or its amendments unless it's prohibited by the states. The people have the power to do X by default.
The intent of the idea of free speech is to ensure that the minority have a way to express themselves without being censored. I'd say that leaves little question over whether something is free speech. Free speech (in the USA) is specifically that that doesn't infringe on the life, liberty, or pursuit of someone else's happiness.
Anything I say, for instance "Fuck off!" that does not endanger those things mentioned above (I suppose if I said it loud enough in someone's ear, it might loosely fall into the first category, but that's a biiiiig stretch) is fine, as far as the first amendment goes.
so,
1) The intent of the free speech amendment is not there to be furthered, it's there so people's speech cannot be censored
2) The unhappy people need to get the fuck over it.
The decision of the majority, insofar as it relates to rights granted by the constitution and it's amendments, can't be a matter of how many people will be unhappy. The easy (and fucking scary) way around that would be another constitutional amendment.
Actually, the reason America was founded was that a bunch of Puritans that were so uptight that nobody wanted them in England anymore said "fine", and sailed across the ocean to a place that they could be chaste and angry in peace. After that, a bunch of other people with less rigid morals said "hey, it's not too bad over here...let's stay". The fight over whose way is better has been going on since then.
who can get an authentic sound-clip of Darl saying "Fuck me in the goat-ass!" Yeah, yeah, I know I said "in"...
Nah...it'll be OpenGroupware that kills exchange, since it's free. It has the current downside of being incomplete and sort of a bitch to install, but hey, if you're already paying your linux sysadmin a salary he likes, no extra cost.
Pardon me, but how the fsck does that post rate an "interesting"?
Okay...haven't seen this really spelled out yet, so here's my $.02. I think right now, what keeps some users from switching to linux (speaking about reasonably computer-savvy folks) is that there's no "Find-download-click-install" routine that's consistent for Linux. Windows has a couple of fairly streamlined installers that make it simple for users to "make things go". If I built a RedHat box for my mom and said "Hey, go install GIMP...I forgot to include it...you can get it at blah.com", she'd likely find the file she needed, download it, and either not be able to find where it went (save to desktop, anyone?), or not be able to figure out how to install it. "tar" is not something that a fairly experienced windows user understands. Usability and quality of applications in Linux has become stellar, but it's time to get everybody on one page and make it REEEEEEEEAAAALLY easy for people to actually install stuff. How many Windows users would have installed if they had to do it via a command-line?
The thing about going reeeeeeeeeeeeally far left or right is that you eventually end up at the same place. Insane, babbling, and with people staring at you and crossing the street to avoid any excess saliva.
So, you're saying that 'conservative' greed ('Let me keep my money') is worse than 'liberal' greed ('Let me keep *your* money')? How so?
Umm...you can't cut taxes past zero...after that it's called welfare...not that I have anything against welfare, I just would rather not have it come in the form of a check from the IRS. I ain't rich (yet?), but I suppose with 3 kids and 60K in salary I'm not poor anymore (much better than my army pay). That said, if you personally ask me for money, and I have it, I might just give you some. Take it from me without giving me a choice, however, and it kind of pisses me off. Hey, wasn't this thread about the Net or something?
Damn straight...I probably fall into the enough's enough category. I've sent individual letters to abuse@pickacrappydomainname.com before, but watching the process they're going through is insightful and inspirational...it'd be SO nice to at least have a valid e-mail address to complain to sometimes...
rumor confirmed...MUAHAHA...
Hey, why are my taxes so high?
From what I've seen in my last two jobs, the main thing that the corporate types use a lot is the shared contacts and calendars in Exchange. That plus windows' integrated authentication makes it hard to gain any momentum away from Exchange. However you look at it, Exchange is *extremely* well integrated with windows, maybe bloated, buggy, and irritating, but well integrated.