Agreed. My wife has stopped emptying her purse and carry-on of tweezers, nail clippers, little bottles of make-up, etc. They always let her through because she's the little white woman flying first class, so she must not be dangerous.
In our experience, AMC and Cinemark theaters let you bring in whatever you want to eat or drink from the outside (once we even brought a pizza!), but lately we just go to Alamo Drafthouse or Star Cinema Grill (we like some dishes there, and there's a lot fewer kids.
From all reports, Dropbox is compromised by default. However, I also figure they have an easier way to get into any account I have via NSL or preexisting backdoor than to go crack my KeePass file. I'm just trying to keep everyone else out.
I have KeePass installed on my computers and KeyPassDroid on my phone and tablet. The file is shared between them all using Dropbox. This way, if I change it one place it's available at all the others automagically, and in case it gets corrupted I have a 30-day history of changes at Dropbox's site. I've had no problems, I like its built-in and configurable password generator, and it works a treat with the KeeFox plugin for Firefox.
(YMMV in that you may have issues with Dropbox, but for me, it works.)
...or maybe I turn on the wifi tethering on my unlimited data plan on my phone for everybody to use and carry a couple backup batteries.
Being a Texan, I know the courts are corrupt, but... really?
Just think about this next time you're queued up forever in the security theater line waiting to get your junk touched. It seems like the ideal place to attack an airport and get lots of casualties.
Perhaps a revival of the Universe Simulation Mailing List? Unfortunately, the archives were on Geocities, so even that bit may be long gone since archive.org is throwing an error when I try to pull it up.
About fifteen years ago our mail kept being misdelivered, and we kept getting other peoples' mail. We took it up with all sorts of folks, and finally the regional postmaster said that if the mail is put by a carrier in a box, it has been delivered. If it's not in our box, it's our problem (!).
Personally, I'd rather have some competition than put up with that level of asshattery.
Good luck with that. Many stores can't survive the bad word of mouth they'd get for throwing people out for using their phones in whatever way they please. Meanwhile, I'll keep happily scanning barcodes on products to see if it's a good deal where I am or not.
We keep our landline because we have an alarm system that needs a phone line to dial in and VoIP isn't reliable enough, even if it can carry the traffic. We could probably get a cellular unit for it to use instead, but that's another reason we keep the landline: cellular coverage out in our neck of the woods isn't the best.
I work for a hospital system, so by default we're 24/7. We could implement some power savings except for the fact that clinicians don't understand computers, so if the monitor is dark then as far as they're concerned the machine is broken. Add to that the fact that they often won't call in a problem or try to turn it on but rather walk to another machine, plus that non-IT folk are in charge of the system so we're here to make them happy and not vice versa, and I suspect all our machines will be 24/7 from here on out.
Mod parent up; just because WotC are pulling these PDFs, people need to know that there are the OGL clones. The Old-School Renaissance really has an opportunity here.
In addition to OSRIC for AD&D 1e, if you want some old-school goodness from the old Moldvay boxed sets you can get Labyrinth Lord, and if the original boxed set (OD&D) is your thing then you can get a couple of different flavors of Swords & Wizardry depending on if you like just the original three books ("white box") or items from the Greyhawk supplement thrown in. In addition, there are other games that are old school like Basic Fantasy which is very similar to Moldvay B/X with some bits of AD&D, and stirred with D20 for ascending armor classes.
Note that all these are available in PDF absolutely free, and also available for sale in softbound or hardbound (well, OSRIC is getting there, it's not quite there yet).
Even better: missing Dragon and Dungeon magazines? No problem: there are magazines like Fight On! and Knockspell to take their place.
It takes me three minutes to get to the interstate, it's about fifteen minutes on the interstate and about two minutes into the parking garage. That's twenty minutes, but even if it were five minutes closer, there's no way I'd be out there on a bicycle. I'd get run over.
(Before someone suggests an alternate route, an intervening river I have to cross limits my alternate routes to being either five miles out of my way and moderately less dangerous, or twelve miles out of my way or forty miles out of my way and just as dangerous. Not really acceptable changes.)
To each their own. Everyone's ideal play style is their own preference, so there is really no game that is better or more flawed than any other. Rather, there are just some that support different play styles better.
Personally, the idea of an "interactive storytelling experience" of the White Wolf variety makes me want to dry heave, so I would never even consider rules of that vein. The whole notion gives me visions of emo and goth kids trying to one-up each other on calling things "lame."
However, exploring a dungeon complex, killing monsters and taking their stuff around a table with my friends chucking dice and moving minis sounds like a wonderful way to spend an evening, just like we did back in the eighties and nineties. BFRPG captures that style of game wonderfully!
I guess people will always look for the One True Roleplaying System, but I don't think they'll ever find it because there are way too many play styles out there. I personally laud AD&D and GURPS for meeting their goals quite well, and BFRPG continues in the old-style D&D vein, which keeps the old-skool crowd like me happy.
Do you want to get off the Wizards of the Coast treadmill? Do you miss the old editions, but like the simplified, unified mechanics? Want to play a game that's essentially "open source?" Check out Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game (BFRPG). It's very similar to taking some d20 mechanics and retrofitting them to the old Basic and Expert sets that many of us started with as kids.
At first I didn't think I'd go that way, but it's really grown on me. It's a complete game in a few pages and has streamlined mechanics (except for the thief skills, but that suits me, actually). There are many add-ins to adjust it for flavor, and you can use much of your old B/X, 1e and 2e material with some minimal changes. You should really check it out. It's even a supported, living system and the creator is quite friendly and approachable, and many folks discuss it regularly.
Oh, yeah, if anybody would like to join up with an old-school (ie, dungeon crawling/swords & sorcery) BFRPG game in the Sugar Land, Texas area...
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Agreed. My wife has stopped emptying her purse and carry-on of tweezers, nail clippers, little bottles of make-up, etc. They always let her through because she's the little white woman flying first class, so she must not be dangerous.
Y'know, you're right! But it's all good from 'Diego to the Bay.
Inglewood's always up to no good.
In our experience, AMC and Cinemark theaters let you bring in whatever you want to eat or drink from the outside (once we even brought a pizza!), but lately we just go to Alamo Drafthouse or Star Cinema Grill (we like some dishes there, and there's a lot fewer kids.
Deal with it? Do you mean with torches and pitchforks, or...?
From all reports, Dropbox is compromised by default. However, I also figure they have an easier way to get into any account I have via NSL or preexisting backdoor than to go crack my KeePass file. I'm just trying to keep everyone else out.
I have KeePass installed on my computers and KeyPassDroid on my phone and tablet. The file is shared between them all using Dropbox. This way, if I change it one place it's available at all the others automagically, and in case it gets corrupted I have a 30-day history of changes at Dropbox's site. I've had no problems, I like its built-in and configurable password generator, and it works a treat with the KeeFox plugin for Firefox.
(YMMV in that you may have issues with Dropbox, but for me, it works.)
Great! If I don't suck down their ads then I'm saving us both money!
The Frankencamera might give you an idea what this would be good for, especially this video.
...or maybe I turn on the wifi tethering on my unlimited data plan on my phone for everybody to use and carry a couple backup batteries. Being a Texan, I know the courts are corrupt, but... really?
Just think about this next time you're queued up forever in the security theater line waiting to get your junk touched. It seems like the ideal place to attack an airport and get lots of casualties.
Perhaps a revival of the Universe Simulation Mailing List? Unfortunately, the archives were on Geocities, so even that bit may be long gone since archive.org is throwing an error when I try to pull it up.
Lulz, not "LOL's." They do it for the lulz.
Okay, then what about Bank of America saying they won't process payments intended for Wikileaks? If the money is in your account, it is your money.
This is nothing a few seconds in the microwave won't fix.
Of course, I had to use a hammer to fix my passport's problem.
About fifteen years ago our mail kept being misdelivered, and we kept getting other peoples' mail. We took it up with all sorts of folks, and finally the regional postmaster said that if the mail is put by a carrier in a box, it has been delivered. If it's not in our box, it's our problem (!).
Personally, I'd rather have some competition than put up with that level of asshattery.
Good luck with that. Many stores can't survive the bad word of mouth they'd get for throwing people out for using their phones in whatever way they please. Meanwhile, I'll keep happily scanning barcodes on products to see if it's a good deal where I am or not.
...the axis of evil.
"The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum
We keep our landline because we have an alarm system that needs a phone line to dial in and VoIP isn't reliable enough, even if it can carry the traffic. We could probably get a cellular unit for it to use instead, but that's another reason we keep the landline: cellular coverage out in our neck of the woods isn't the best.
I work for a hospital system, so by default we're 24/7. We could implement some power savings except for the fact that clinicians don't understand computers, so if the monitor is dark then as far as they're concerned the machine is broken. Add to that the fact that they often won't call in a problem or try to turn it on but rather walk to another machine, plus that non-IT folk are in charge of the system so we're here to make them happy and not vice versa, and I suspect all our machines will be 24/7 from here on out.
Mod parent up; just because WotC are pulling these PDFs, people need to know that there are the OGL clones. The Old-School Renaissance really has an opportunity here.
In addition to OSRIC for AD&D 1e, if you want some old-school goodness from the old Moldvay boxed sets you can get Labyrinth Lord , and if the original boxed set (OD&D) is your thing then you can get a couple of different flavors of Swords & Wizardry depending on if you like just the original three books ("white box") or items from the Greyhawk supplement thrown in. In addition, there are other games that are old school like Basic Fantasy which is very similar to Moldvay B/X with some bits of AD&D, and stirred with D20 for ascending armor classes.
Note that all these are available in PDF absolutely free, and also available for sale in softbound or hardbound (well, OSRIC is getting there, it's not quite there yet).
Even better: missing Dragon and Dungeon magazines? No problem: there are magazines like Fight On! and Knockspell to take their place.
It takes me three minutes to get to the interstate, it's about fifteen minutes on the interstate and about two minutes into the parking garage. That's twenty minutes, but even if it were five minutes closer, there's no way I'd be out there on a bicycle. I'd get run over. (Before someone suggests an alternate route, an intervening river I have to cross limits my alternate routes to being either five miles out of my way and moderately less dangerous, or twelve miles out of my way or forty miles out of my way and just as dangerous. Not really acceptable changes.)
To each their own. Everyone's ideal play style is their own preference, so there is really no game that is better or more flawed than any other. Rather, there are just some that support different play styles better.
Personally, the idea of an "interactive storytelling experience" of the White Wolf variety makes me want to dry heave, so I would never even consider rules of that vein. The whole notion gives me visions of emo and goth kids trying to one-up each other on calling things "lame."
However, exploring a dungeon complex, killing monsters and taking their stuff around a table with my friends chucking dice and moving minis sounds like a wonderful way to spend an evening, just like we did back in the eighties and nineties. BFRPG captures that style of game wonderfully!
I guess people will always look for the One True Roleplaying System, but I don't think they'll ever find it because there are way too many play styles out there. I personally laud AD&D and GURPS for meeting their goals quite well, and BFRPG continues in the old-style D&D vein, which keeps the old-skool crowd like me happy.
Do you want to get off the Wizards of the Coast treadmill? Do you miss the old editions, but like the simplified, unified mechanics? Want to play a game that's essentially "open source?" Check out Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game (BFRPG). It's very similar to taking some d20 mechanics and retrofitting them to the old Basic and Expert sets that many of us started with as kids.
At first I didn't think I'd go that way, but it's really grown on me. It's a complete game in a few pages and has streamlined mechanics (except for the thief skills, but that suits me, actually). There are many add-ins to adjust it for flavor, and you can use much of your old B/X, 1e and 2e material with some minimal changes. You should really check it out. It's even a supported, living system and the creator is quite friendly and approachable, and many folks discuss it regularly.
Oh, yeah, if anybody would like to join up with an old-school (ie, dungeon crawling/swords & sorcery) BFRPG game in the Sugar Land, Texas area...