Email is routinely forged these days, mostly in the form of SPAM. So now you can pin this crime on anyone at all. 5 years in jail, $60,000 fine. I suggest an air strike against Australia is in order, I think we can reach them some B2s and land in Guam...
And don't forget, you can always watch DVDs even without a player. Most people don't appreciate the beauty of small shiney objects. But you can see your reflection on the playing side, and I always find that really excititng.
Why don't you see the gray market games as a market force in themselves? Just like mp3 is a market force, exploited by Napster. The only thing hold up your argument (and the RIAA's) is a set of bizare laws, passed by the lobbying efforts of huge corporations. The laws are wrong.
There's also the fact that bootleg games (not outright copies, but usually cheap imitations) have their own artistic value. Who on earth can tell me I don't have a right to enjoy such a game? The same people who monopolize, conspire, and receive Presidential pardons. That's who.
NASA already has the shuttle, and they'll keep using it until it blows up again (which I think is just a matter of statistics - it's going to happen again someday). What would be the use of a new vehicle? I think they ALREADY have one in the form of a Black Project and they're using it, so there's no need for a publisized version.
(and NO I wasn't a major, thank God)... titles are completely immune from copyright or trademark. I can make a movie and call it "Terminator 2" as long as none of the CONTENT is ripping off another work. Example: William S. Burough wrote a book titled "Blade Runner", and it was even a science fiction story, but it wasn't about some dude who hunted androids for a living like the movie by the same name.
I heard the first successful detection was somehow done with a huge pool of Iodine, which doesn't make sense to me because Iodine sublimes in standard conditions, anyway it happened when a supernova went off, apparently producing a greatly increased number of neutrinos.
Secondly, and this is a bit ridiculous to even mention, well every particle having an anti-particle, I believe the goal of detecting or creating anti-neutrinos would be an even greater achievement. But I'm way out of my field here...
I did snow avalanches. Paper-machee mountain painted white, and a scoop of white gravel pushed off the top. I put Lego people on the slope to show how an avalance might kill a person. I think I got an A.
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Then there was this one kid who brought cow eyeballs from a slaughterhouse in a Tuperware container. Nobody complained, but I think the FBI has been watching him ever since (5th grade).
I was bred on Atari, 8-Bit Nintendo, and little else. But to illustrate my experience:
Metal Gear: fully winnable without cheating, and a great plot
Metal Gear 2 (Snake's Revenge): great plot, but absolutly impossible to win (though I did eventually). Took so long to win it robbed my childhood and I skipped the prom.
Ghosts n Goblins: nice and linear, so you don't feel like you're missing anything. But again, the game gets ridiculously hard.
Rygar: Overall great, except I spent 50% of the time gathering life vials like a bad OCD habit.
Battle of Olympus: damn-near perfect game, except almost impossible without reading a strategy guide (nearly a walk-thru).
Uncharted Waters & Pirates: two easy games, great exploration and replayability, multiple endings, etc. It was fun hacking into them to see all the characters and endings missed while playing the game.
3-D Shooters: absolutely frustrating. They're a total maze to me (I get lost), and they give me a headache for some weird reason.
King's Quest 5: buy the hintbook, or waste your whole life on the game.
Quest for Glory: like King's Quest, but you don't need clues to win.
Master of Orion 2: good loooong game. But if I ever want to finish a game, I end up cheating. Same thing with Railroad Tycoon.
Dungeons and Dragons: WOOOO-hoo! no commentary needed.
Atari games: think of Adventure, perhaps the first game of its kind! then came the Swordquest series (did they ever finish that series?)
Love and Sex: impossible games to win, and cheating doesn't help.
Waves: x(t) = A cos (wt (plus phase shift))... well there's also an equation to describe pulse-like waves. My point isn't that I'm so smart, it's that the guy who argued about no waves in a vaccuum is a complete jerk and has no real concern for physics.
This webpage is my only sanctuary in a world of idiots, jerks, biggots, prudish hippocrites, religous nuts, and outright criminals. Thanks for speaking up, drinkypoo but dude, change your name:)
Let's get all the accusers that were on that particular program, and send them to the moon. And LEAVE THEM THERE!
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Wow, someone who actually thinks much like I do. My only hang-up with the US isn't that there's too much violence, it's that there's not enough sex. There is NO sex on television - ZERO. Unless you count an occasional nipple on PBS or even the Learning Channel, which is just hipocracy that they can get away with it while the Spice channel can't do commercial broadcasting. Sex never hurt anyone. The last defense of the prudish bastards who will tell you otherwise is that sex raises the risk of STDs. Well duh, but that's hardly an excuse to trample freedom by censoring sexual expression. Freedom of speech should apply to nudity, it's only banned because of religous nuts who are filled with fear and hatred at the mere sight of an unclothed woman. Pure repression. But you're right, it sparks a violent reaction overall, energy that can be channeled into marching, yelling, and eventually killing for the purpose of war. Oh well... I'm gonna go get a coffee now. 1 cream, no sugar.
I can't watch a movie where every 10 seconds I say to myself "there's no way that could happen." I'm not referring to anything science-fiction, where we totally throw out the reality that we know, but rather these movies that attempt to stay in the context of the real world. Reality: you kill people, and eventually the state kills you back, or some other thug like yourself does. At best you land in an 8 x 10 cell with a bed and an open bathroon set-up, and they generally don't set you up with an entire home office to yourself. Not to mention that you likely get a cellmate who decides to take out his anger at the world on you alone. Hannibal... So fake. He's an old man, my grandmother could kick his ass... so don't give me this shit about overpowering 2 prison guards and killing an ambulance worker and escaping to some exotic island. Gaw!
Entropy. I'd write out the delta-G, H and temperature equations, but they slip my mind right now because I don't have class tomorrow so I'm drinking right now. Real quick: use energy to do work, or else fall apart, or something. Please don't ask me to write the next text book.
Well said. The issue of cloning was discussed in my Cell Bio class back when that old physicist guy said he would do it 2 years ago. The word that my professor used to describe him was "Quack", with a capitol Q. The technical details of doing the actual work in a lab currently require millions of dollars of equipment, a very well educated team of researchers, and at best you'll get one-in-a-thousand successful results each step of the way. The second you come out as a scientist saying you're cloning anything, you'd better have a prominent job title and a reputable school or company behind your name, and most importantly, be able to point to your own published results in a REPUTABLE journal. Otherwise you're asking for ridicule from your collegues, and you can kiss your biotech career goodbye.
If we could communicate with more advanced aliens, maybe they would help us with our protein folding projects... or maybe they would come and fold a few of our proteins by bombarding the earth with huge asteroids by nudging them into the path of earth's orbit for their amusement. Either way my computer is too damn slow to do anything useful except read Slashdot.
May I suggest the field of Biochemistry. Even if we figure out all we can about genetics and have all this DNA technology, it doesn't mean much if we can't figure out how enzymes and metabolic paths work and hence, how to cure diseases when these things go wrong. It's an endless field (for now anyway) and it leaves the door open to all kinds of chemistry, materials science, and physics alternatives. Not that I'm against CompSci, but that's more of an art I think because it's been contrived by humans - it is whatever we create it to be. Chemistry is more of a natural science because presumably it's the same where ever you go in the universe! Whether we understand chemical laws or not, they will still exist. That's my 2 cents for the weekend.:)
Or... send probes out in the manner you described toward outer solar systems, powered by ion drives... what's that, a 30 year mission to observe other stars and their planets? Maybe?
If they can design a perfect race car program, imagine a perfect flight combat program. (I get shot down if I don't play on EASY level...) There'll be pilotless drones shooting down even the best Top Guns and jet-jocks. I know reconaisence drones have been around since Viet Nam. I even have a theory that the stealth fighter that was shot down in Serbia never even HAD a pilot. Those things are programmed to land on their own if the pilot is unconscious, why couldn't it fly on its own too?
I'm only a nerd-wannabe, so bear with me. My question is will there ever come a day when cache, RAM, and hard drives become one? More to-the-point, I was thinking about RAM disks and how great they are, except you have to be careful to copy the contents back when you shut-down the computer. When I say will they become "one", I know they're separate for efficiency, but maybe what I mean to ask is will I always have to lose the RAM contents when I turn the power off, why not have the whole drive stored in RAM. Hmmm. Good suggestion. Take us back to the Atari XL series... Oh well whatever.
But I want my dog to be able to hear what I can't, and interpret what he hears through the love and companionship that he gives us. That's why I'm getting AC/DC's "Big Balls" as soon as it comes out in this new format.
And I vote...
One of the worst nights of my life was studying for an astronomy final. The 2 hours of sleep that I got before the 9 am test were a bizare state of semi-consciousness in which I imagined that MY ROOM was a model of the solar system. I'm not even kidding, it was like "the chair is jupiter, the books are its moons... farther from that is Neptune, which is my coffee mug". I think I pulled off a C at least, I don't remember.
Cause the Master's message to the universe got thwated by the 4th Doctor but he fell and had to regenerate cause Adrick and Tegan got caught and couldn't save him in time. Thanks for all your help Brigadiere.
I am t*red of my r*ghts being trampled. Seems all oru p*liticians are trying to c*nsor the web. I can't say "f*cked". Wh*t's n*xt? Soon any w*rds, th*ughts, expr*ss*ons are g*ing to b* c**sored because my *deas don't happen to agree with people like J** Lib**mann and T*pper G*re. I'm going to do the only thing I can in a d*m*cracy. I'm v*ting for the candidate ***** *. *****. I hope that by joining the *********** party, I will be doing something to preserve **** speach. Thank ***.
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Email is routinely forged these days, mostly in the form of SPAM. So now you can pin this crime on anyone at all. 5 years in jail, $60,000 fine. I suggest an air strike against Australia is in order, I think we can reach them some B2s and land in Guam...
And don't forget, you can always watch DVDs even without a player. Most people don't appreciate the beauty of small shiney objects. But you can see your reflection on the playing side, and I always find that really excititng.
Why don't you see the gray market games as a market force in themselves? Just like mp3 is a market force, exploited by Napster. The only thing hold up your argument (and the RIAA's) is a set of bizare laws, passed by the lobbying efforts of huge corporations. The laws are wrong.
There's also the fact that bootleg games (not outright copies, but usually cheap imitations) have their own artistic value. Who on earth can tell me I don't have a right to enjoy such a game? The same people who monopolize, conspire, and receive Presidential pardons. That's who.
NASA already has the shuttle, and they'll keep using it until it blows up again (which I think is just a matter of statistics - it's going to happen again someday). What would be the use of a new vehicle? I think they ALREADY have one in the form of a Black Project and they're using it, so there's no need for a publisized version.
(and NO I wasn't a major, thank God)... titles are completely immune from copyright or trademark. I can make a movie and call it "Terminator 2" as long as none of the CONTENT is ripping off another work. Example: William S. Burough wrote a book titled "Blade Runner", and it was even a science fiction story, but it wasn't about some dude who hunted androids for a living like the movie by the same name.
I heard the first successful detection was somehow done with a huge pool of Iodine, which doesn't make sense to me because Iodine sublimes in standard conditions, anyway it happened when a supernova went off, apparently producing a greatly increased number of neutrinos.
Secondly, and this is a bit ridiculous to even mention, well every particle having an anti-particle, I believe the goal of detecting or creating anti-neutrinos would be an even greater achievement. But I'm way out of my field here...
I did snow avalanches. Paper-machee mountain painted white, and a scoop of white gravel pushed off the top. I put Lego people on the slope to show how an avalance might kill a person. I think I got an A.
<br><br>
Then there was this one kid who brought cow eyeballs from a slaughterhouse in a Tuperware container. Nobody complained, but I think the FBI has been watching him ever since (5th grade).
I was bred on Atari, 8-Bit Nintendo, and little else. But to illustrate my experience:
Metal Gear: fully winnable without cheating, and a great plot
Metal Gear 2 (Snake's Revenge): great plot, but absolutly impossible to win (though I did eventually). Took so long to win it robbed my childhood and I skipped the prom.
Ghosts n Goblins: nice and linear, so you don't feel like you're missing anything. But again, the game gets ridiculously hard.
Rygar: Overall great, except I spent 50% of the time gathering life vials like a bad OCD habit.
Battle of Olympus: damn-near perfect game, except almost impossible without reading a strategy guide (nearly a walk-thru).
Uncharted Waters & Pirates: two easy games, great exploration and replayability, multiple endings, etc. It was fun hacking into them to see all the characters and endings missed while playing the game.
3-D Shooters: absolutely frustrating. They're a total maze to me (I get lost), and they give me a headache for some weird reason.
King's Quest 5: buy the hintbook, or waste your whole life on the game.
Quest for Glory: like King's Quest, but you don't need clues to win.
Master of Orion 2: good loooong game. But if I ever want to finish a game, I end up cheating. Same thing with Railroad Tycoon.
Dungeons and Dragons: WOOOO-hoo! no commentary needed.
Atari games: think of Adventure, perhaps the first game of its kind! then came the Swordquest series (did they ever finish that series?)
Love and Sex: impossible games to win, and cheating doesn't help.
Waves: x(t) = A cos (wt (plus phase shift)) ... well there's also an equation to describe pulse-like waves. My point isn't that I'm so smart, it's that the guy who argued about no waves in a vaccuum is a complete jerk and has no real concern for physics.
This webpage is my only sanctuary in a world of idiots, jerks, biggots, prudish hippocrites, religous nuts, and outright criminals. Thanks for speaking up, drinkypoo but dude, change your name :)
Let's get all the accusers that were on that particular program, and send them to the moon. And LEAVE THEM THERE!
Wow, someone who actually thinks much like I do. My only hang-up with the US isn't that there's too much violence, it's that there's not enough sex. There is NO sex on television - ZERO. Unless you count an occasional nipple on PBS or even the Learning Channel, which is just hipocracy that they can get away with it while the Spice channel can't do commercial broadcasting. Sex never hurt anyone. The last defense of the prudish bastards who will tell you otherwise is that sex raises the risk of STDs. Well duh, but that's hardly an excuse to trample freedom by censoring sexual expression. Freedom of speech should apply to nudity, it's only banned because of religous nuts who are filled with fear and hatred at the mere sight of an unclothed woman. Pure repression. But you're right, it sparks a violent reaction overall, energy that can be channeled into marching, yelling, and eventually killing for the purpose of war. Oh well... I'm gonna go get a coffee now. 1 cream, no sugar.
I can't watch a movie where every 10 seconds I say to myself "there's no way that could happen." I'm not referring to anything science-fiction, where we totally throw out the reality that we know, but rather these movies that attempt to stay in the context of the real world. Reality: you kill people, and eventually the state kills you back, or some other thug like yourself does. At best you land in an 8 x 10 cell with a bed and an open bathroon set-up, and they generally don't set you up with an entire home office to yourself. Not to mention that you likely get a cellmate who decides to take out his anger at the world on you alone. Hannibal... So fake. He's an old man, my grandmother could kick his ass... so don't give me this shit about overpowering 2 prison guards and killing an ambulance worker and escaping to some exotic island. Gaw!
Entropy. I'd write out the delta-G, H and temperature equations, but they slip my mind right now because I don't have class tomorrow so I'm drinking right now. Real quick: use energy to do work, or else fall apart, or something. Please don't ask me to write the next text book.
I named the Human leader Kojack.
Well said. The issue of cloning was discussed in my Cell Bio class back when that old physicist guy said he would do it 2 years ago. The word that my professor used to describe him was "Quack", with a capitol Q. The technical details of doing the actual work in a lab currently require millions of dollars of equipment, a very well educated team of researchers, and at best you'll get one-in-a-thousand successful results each step of the way. The second you come out as a scientist saying you're cloning anything, you'd better have a prominent job title and a reputable school or company behind your name, and most importantly, be able to point to your own published results in a REPUTABLE journal. Otherwise you're asking for ridicule from your collegues, and you can kiss your biotech career goodbye.
If we could communicate with more advanced aliens, maybe they would help us with our protein folding projects... or maybe they would come and fold a few of our proteins by bombarding the earth with huge asteroids by nudging them into the path of earth's orbit for their amusement. Either way my computer is too damn slow to do anything useful except read Slashdot.
May I suggest the field of Biochemistry. Even if we figure out all we can about genetics and have all this DNA technology, it doesn't mean much if we can't figure out how enzymes and metabolic paths work and hence, how to cure diseases when these things go wrong. It's an endless field (for now anyway) and it leaves the door open to all kinds of chemistry, materials science, and physics alternatives. Not that I'm against CompSci, but that's more of an art I think because it's been contrived by humans - it is whatever we create it to be. Chemistry is more of a natural science because presumably it's the same where ever you go in the universe! Whether we understand chemical laws or not, they will still exist. That's my 2 cents for the weekend. :)
Or... send probes out in the manner you described toward outer solar systems, powered by ion drives... what's that, a 30 year mission to observe other stars and their planets? Maybe?
If they can design a perfect race car program, imagine a perfect flight combat program. (I get shot down if I don't play on EASY level...) There'll be pilotless drones shooting down even the best Top Guns and jet-jocks. I know reconaisence drones have been around since Viet Nam. I even have a theory that the stealth fighter that was shot down in Serbia never even HAD a pilot. Those things are programmed to land on their own if the pilot is unconscious, why couldn't it fly on its own too?
I'm only a nerd-wannabe, so bear with me. My question is will there ever come a day when cache, RAM, and hard drives become one? More to-the-point, I was thinking about RAM disks and how great they are, except you have to be careful to copy the contents back when you shut-down the computer. When I say will they become "one", I know they're separate for efficiency, but maybe what I mean to ask is will I always have to lose the RAM contents when I turn the power off, why not have the whole drive stored in RAM. Hmmm. Good suggestion. Take us back to the Atari XL series... Oh well whatever.
But I want my dog to be able to hear what I can't, and interpret what he hears through the love and companionship that he gives us. That's why I'm getting AC/DC's "Big Balls" as soon as it comes out in this new format. And I vote...
One of the worst nights of my life was studying for an astronomy final. The 2 hours of sleep that I got before the 9 am test were a bizare state of semi-consciousness in which I imagined that MY ROOM was a model of the solar system. I'm not even kidding, it was like "the chair is jupiter, the books are its moons... farther from that is Neptune, which is my coffee mug". I think I pulled off a C at least, I don't remember.
How much would a ticket cost?
Cause the Master's message to the universe got thwated by the 4th Doctor but he fell and had to regenerate cause Adrick and Tegan got caught and couldn't save him in time. Thanks for all your help Brigadiere.
I am t*red of my r*ghts being trampled. Seems all oru p*liticians are trying to c*nsor the web. I can't say "f*cked". Wh*t's n*xt? Soon any w*rds, th*ughts, expr*ss*ons are g*ing to b* c**sored because my *deas don't happen to agree with people like J** Lib**mann and T*pper G*re. I'm going to do the only thing I can in a d*m*cracy. I'm v*ting for the candidate ***** *. *****. I hope that by joining the *********** party, I will be doing something to preserve **** speach. Thank ***.