I see folks calling this proposal "draconian." It sounds to me, and I did NOT RTFA as of this post, that a max. 3 year sentence is not so much OVERKILL and DRACONIAN as it is a DETERRANT to those who might think about violating the law.
Granted, it's a little nuts, but think about it -- some kid starts seeing a PSA on TV and reading online hearing about other kids getting threatened with 3 years max. for violating the law? Shit -- if I were a parent, I'd think "family" in terms of this law, 'cause spending money to defend my kid for something he probably shouldn't have been doing in the first place affects my fucking "family" financially.
Personally, it sounds like a horseshit law in the works, but most of the ones coming from DC these days are horseshit. However, as a deterrant, 3 years for, say, my kid violating the law is plenty effective.
My little brother has a PS2, and about 2 years ago, I played Splinter Cell for a bit to see what it was all about. I really enjoyed it, although I hated the alarms going off when I left some dumbass dead in a hallway. Irritating, but part of the whole "don't leave evidence behind" concept, I guess.
Does this series translate well to a PC? And is there a strong multiplayer group out their playing the MP version for PC?
For Christ's sake, scientists -- MAKE UP YOUR FRIGGIN' MIND ABOUT THESE GLOBAL KILLER ASTEROIDS!
I just went through paperwork HELL getting the "Asteroids, Meteorites, and Other Heaven-to-Earth Bodies" coverage removed from my AllState homeowners insurance. This after I put it on there when you FIRST told us it was going to hit us!
Then I had to call Jean, my agent, and f*cking tell her to shred that whole contract and contact my mortage lender when you f*cking scientists said, "Whoa -- wait -- it might NOT hit after all. Our bad." But, of course, the fax machine at my office was on the fritz that week (screw all-in-one concepts, HP!), so I had to take a 2 hour ride through traffic BACK to my house to get the paperwork and OVER TO Jean's office.
Now, after FINALLY getting the signature pages right, 'cause Jean's assistant can't friggin' spell "interplanetary" for sh*t, I gotta do the whole g'damn thing again.
Christ -- I'm going to just leave it on there this time and pay the extra 20% on my homeowners insurance premiums this year. It's not friggin' worth going through all that hassle, having to take time off, explaining to my boss what why I'm having to factor "global extinction" into my homeowner savings plan, etc. Dammit.
I guess, now, that those f*ckers from Homeland Security are going to change the f*cking color of the alert this week too. Then I'll have to go back and talk with Jean about that "Dirty Bombs, Biological/Chemical Agents, and Other WMDs" clause. Dammit.
Having just come from an academic staff job, I really loved the academic pricing on Adobe and Macromedia products. Problem was -- I still had to buy BOTH friggin' suites to get everything that I NEEDED to build websites, graphic design, etc. After my money was spent, I had all this that I really didn't need or want to use:
Now, I can get Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Photoshop (preferably with some Fireworks features integrated later on), Flash, Acrobat, etc. in one suite rather than two bloated ones.
Only problem is -- will Adobe bump up the pricing (academic or retail) of said suite so that it's the same as buying the two older suites separately?
In one scenario, Condoleeza Rice, Dick Cheney, and Don Rumsfeld lie in the pool predicting dictatorial takedowns for "freedom."
If Dems win in 2008, then it could be a whole other affair, with Joe Lieberman and 2 Hollywood actors predicting and preventing right wing conspiracies for 4 years.
Until Jeb Bush manages to drown the Hillary Clinton staffer in the Everglades and confuse the pre-cogs into thinking it was Bill Clinton in a fit of horny misbehavior.
I'd be more interested in whose names will be on the balls...
[soldier at facility] "Alert the president. We have a black ball. It's the Ayatollah. He'll want to handle this one personally. Get the spider hole team ready. We leave in 5. We'll stay for 5 too."
[2nd solider] "Sir! We have another ball -- red. It appears that North Korea is tipping on its Axis of Evil."
[1st soldier] "You can ignore that one. We always do. A nutjob with nukes isn't nearly as scary as these dictatorial types with oil."
Keep this to yourselves, folks. Otherwise, those poor Russians will have this guy just randomly showing up in a parka he found in a dumpster wanting to set up his abandoned CPU and monitor:
Really? I meant briefs -- how the hell am I going to work at Google [corporation name of your choice] commando, buddy? What sort of office pervert are you?;-)
...and let me eat some pancakes with Google syrup on top of them for breakfast. Then I can finally get out of the 3BD/2BA Google house that I bought on Google Real Estate and head to my job at Google [insert previously independent company name here].
I just hope my mail-order Google bride remembered to fill up the Google car before she went to her Google book club this morning. Damned, bitch. Leaving me with the Google adoption service kids every Thursday morning to be a woman.
...then./ has had that icon with Borg-Gates right all along. An indestructible force in the universe that even a hacker friendly penguin defending the forces of good can't destroy.
I'm heading to Publix to buy bread, milk, and beer. Then Wal-Mart for ammo. The end of the world is here!
only downside is that we'll have to deal with the oversized Hello Kitty decals flying overhead
Screw Hello Kitty! I eagerly await the 500m wide advertisement starships flying overhead featuring hot Japanese babes a la Blade Runner! Imagine, though, all the auto accidents below as the world's Asian fetish types come out of the woodwork and gaze upward instead of forwards.
I'm wondering if they'd make the following adjustments to the Transformers characters to really make the whole movie more "realistic" and proper to the 21st century:
Dinobots will moonlight on Discovery Channel during those "back in time" dinosaur documentaries
Optimus Prime will be based at the "Highway 7 Boobs'n'Burgers" when not saving the world
Autobots disguised as GM products will frequently be out of commission due to recalls
Starscream will make the news when he accidentally strafes an unoccupied middle school
Megatron will find many of his plans foiled by gun control advocates
Two of the Insecticons die horribly when they move through a suburban neighborhood rife with treatments of Andro Fire Ant Bait
The Constructicons will often be missing in action, idling near a highway construction project looking at a hole in the 2 left lanes while taking a lunch break that snarls rush hour traffic
That Autobot city (can't remember the name) will never be truly effective as a weapon, mainly because City Hall is chock full of corruption and budget cuts
Omnicron will make it to Earth at the end of the movie, only because George Bush kills the funding for the Voyager probe that MIGHT have seen him coming
...he gets his mission to Mars, colonizes it, claims responsibility for the first Mars colony as part of his legacy, and then finds out that the whole time, the Martian battle cruisers were just outside the solar system waiting to come back in and kill us all......unless Voyager spotted them beforehand.
Even worse -- the Voyager probe isn't losing market share to predominantly African American probes or the WB space administration. I won't even get into the Veronica Mars Mission budget.
Adobe started putting product activation (as did Macromedia) into their stuff with CS, I believe. Mainly Photoshop for Windows. Maybe Acrobat too.
Well, I just rebuilt my system last night and realized that, unlike Macromedia's software suite, I can't transfer the activation to new hardware without going through the phone call rigamarole. Or so I thought. Adobe didn't follow Macromedia's lead until Acrobat 7, I think, so I was left calling and asking friggin' permission to move my installation to a completely new computer.
In the end, I re-activated on a completely different set of hardware via the Internet anyway. Don't know if was a grace re-activation or what, but I wonder if it'll happen again like that. Perhaps I'll be calling after the next upgrade.
I hope this becomes standard fare for software requiring product activation. I can't say if it's a necessary evil or just plain evil, but for God's sake make it easy to upgrade to a new machine.
Even more interesting is that today you can build yourself a custom, massively parallel computer on a shoestring budget. All you need is a handful of FPGAs, a PCB layout service like Pad2Pad, a few other parts, and reasonable VHDL or Verilog skills. That's more or less what OpenRT did to build their SaarCORE architecture.:-)
Holy Christ. I just had an acronym anyeurism.
Bleeding out of ear...dying...damn you/. users with user #'s lower than my 600K series...#...[thud]
kind of like when we make celebrities caught snorting coke of a ten year old boy's ass make a public service announcement about the dangers of illegal drugs.
So that's what happened to Michael Jackson's nose.
When the masses for a particular market DEMAND wireless versions of useful websites in droves, then I think this is an issue.
Maybe it's my limited American view, but I don't see a helluva lot of people walking around with pricey Treos and WiFi PDAs that need or want to surf the friggin' Internet. Maybe it's different in more cell phone/gadget advanced countries.
Personally, I think it's the gadget crowd that wants it, and until that crowd constitutes a large enough market to garner the attention of those paying the web developer or interactive agency invoices, it ain't happening.
Come on -- I've been a Gmail user for all of 7 days as of today, and I think it's the best thing since sliced bread. Synchronization of sent mail between Outlook and the web interface? No banner advertising? Simple to use interface? No tagged ads at the bottom of every e-mail.
And who gives a rat's ass if I see contextual text ads based on e-mail content? Fine with me until someone definitively proves that Gmail administrators are beating off to my missives to the wife in a remote office park. At that point, I'll change the service just because...well...I don't even beat off to those e-mails.
If you want all the above, you want door #2 -- labeled Yahoo!, AOL, etc. Jeez.
And to think that I was paying $10/month to keep my shitbox Mindspring/Earthlink account open for e-mail addresses I'd had for 7 years. And getting ONLY 10MB per account for each address. To quote Awesome-O, "Lame. Totally lame."
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I see folks calling this proposal "draconian." It sounds to me, and I did NOT RTFA as of this post, that a max. 3 year sentence is not so much OVERKILL and DRACONIAN as it is a DETERRANT to those who might think about violating the law.
Granted, it's a little nuts, but think about it -- some kid starts seeing a PSA on TV and reading online hearing about other kids getting threatened with 3 years max. for violating the law? Shit -- if I were a parent, I'd think "family" in terms of this law, 'cause spending money to defend my kid for something he probably shouldn't have been doing in the first place affects my fucking "family" financially.
Personally, it sounds like a horseshit law in the works, but most of the ones coming from DC these days are horseshit. However, as a deterrant, 3 years for, say, my kid violating the law is plenty effective.
IronChefMorimoto
...a giant pop-up ad for boob enhancements caught my attention first.
IronChefMorimoto
My little brother has a PS2, and about 2 years ago, I played Splinter Cell for a bit to see what it was all about. I really enjoyed it, although I hated the alarms going off when I left some dumbass dead in a hallway. Irritating, but part of the whole "don't leave evidence behind" concept, I guess.
Does this series translate well to a PC? And is there a strong multiplayer group out their playing the MP version for PC?
IronChefMorimoto
For Christ's sake, scientists -- MAKE UP YOUR FRIGGIN' MIND ABOUT THESE GLOBAL KILLER ASTEROIDS!
I just went through paperwork HELL getting the "Asteroids, Meteorites, and Other Heaven-to-Earth Bodies" coverage removed from my AllState homeowners insurance. This after I put it on there when you FIRST told us it was going to hit us!
Then I had to call Jean, my agent, and f*cking tell her to shred that whole contract and contact my mortage lender when you f*cking scientists said, "Whoa -- wait -- it might NOT hit after all. Our bad." But, of course, the fax machine at my office was on the fritz that week (screw all-in-one concepts, HP!), so I had to take a 2 hour ride through traffic BACK to my house to get the paperwork and OVER TO Jean's office.
Now, after FINALLY getting the signature pages right, 'cause Jean's assistant can't friggin' spell "interplanetary" for sh*t, I gotta do the whole g'damn thing again.
Christ -- I'm going to just leave it on there this time and pay the extra 20% on my homeowners insurance premiums this year. It's not friggin' worth going through all that hassle, having to take time off, explaining to my boss what why I'm having to factor "global extinction" into my homeowner savings plan, etc. Dammit.
I guess, now, that those f*ckers from Homeland Security are going to change the f*cking color of the alert this week too. Then I'll have to go back and talk with Jean about that "Dirty Bombs, Biological/Chemical Agents, and Other WMDs" clause. Dammit.
IronChefMorimoto
Having just come from an academic staff job, I really loved the academic pricing on Adobe and Macromedia products. Problem was -- I still had to buy BOTH friggin' suites to get everything that I NEEDED to build websites, graphic design, etc. After my money was spent, I had all this that I really didn't need or want to use:
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe GoLive
- Macromedia Freehand
Now, I can get Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Photoshop (preferably with some Fireworks features integrated later on), Flash, Acrobat, etc. in one suite rather than two bloated ones.
Only problem is -- will Adobe bump up the pricing (academic or retail) of said suite so that it's the same as buying the two older suites separately?
Overall -- not really happy about this buyout.
IronChefMorimoto
...depending on who's in the White House.
In one scenario, Condoleeza Rice, Dick Cheney, and Don Rumsfeld lie in the pool predicting dictatorial takedowns for "freedom."
If Dems win in 2008, then it could be a whole other affair, with Joe Lieberman and 2 Hollywood actors predicting and preventing right wing conspiracies for 4 years.
Until Jeb Bush manages to drown the Hillary Clinton staffer in the Everglades and confuse the pre-cogs into thinking it was Bill Clinton in a fit of horny misbehavior.
IronChefMorimoto
I'd be more interested in whose names will be on the balls...
[soldier at facility] "Alert the president. We have a black ball. It's the Ayatollah. He'll want to handle this one personally. Get the spider hole team ready. We leave in 5. We'll stay for 5 too."
[2nd solider] "Sir! We have another ball -- red. It appears that North Korea is tipping on its Axis of Evil."
[1st soldier] "You can ignore that one. We always do. A nutjob with nukes isn't nearly as scary as these dictatorial types with oil."
IronChefMorimoto
...tonight (April 15) they'd all be huddled around waiting for turns with TaxCut.
IronChefMorimotoKeep this to yourselves, folks. Otherwise, those poor Russians will have this guy just randomly showing up in a parka he found in a dumpster wanting to set up his abandoned CPU and monitor:
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000263038617/
IronChefMorimoto
Really? I meant briefs -- how the hell am I going to work at Google [corporation name of your choice] commando, buddy? What sort of office pervert are you? ;-)
IronChefMorimoto
...and let me eat some pancakes with Google syrup on top of them for breakfast. Then I can finally get out of the 3BD/2BA Google house that I bought on Google Real Estate and head to my job at Google [insert previously independent company name here].
I just hope my mail-order Google bride remembered to fill up the Google car before she went to her Google book club this morning. Damned, bitch. Leaving me with the Google adoption service kids every Thursday morning to be a woman.
Where the hell is my Starbucks coffee?
IronChefMorimoto
...then ./ has had that icon with Borg-Gates right all along. An indestructible force in the universe that even a hacker friendly penguin defending the forces of good can't destroy.
I'm heading to Publix to buy bread, milk, and beer. Then Wal-Mart for ammo. The end of the world is here!
IronChefMorimoto
...there's a naturally occurring standard at Slashdot that demands that at least one story like this gets posted a day.
Meanwhile, my story submission about monkeys that play cards on the Internet gets rejected. F*ckers.
IronChefMorimoto
PG-13 was introduced in 1984 because Spielberg scared most of India with his vision of the Temple of Doom:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PG-13#History
I would venture to guess that it was also introduced to allow 80s teen movies to slip in a little titty here and there.
IronChefMorimoto
only downside is that we'll have to deal with the oversized Hello Kitty decals flying overhead
Screw Hello Kitty! I eagerly await the 500m wide advertisement starships flying overhead featuring hot Japanese babes a la Blade Runner! Imagine, though, all the auto accidents below as the world's Asian fetish types come out of the woodwork and gaze upward instead of forwards.
IronChefMorimoto
I'm wondering if they'd make the following adjustments to the Transformers characters to really make the whole movie more "realistic" and proper to the 21st century:
IronChefMorimoto
...he gets his mission to Mars, colonizes it, claims responsibility for the first Mars colony as part of his legacy, and then finds out that the whole time, the Martian battle cruisers were just outside the solar system waiting to come back in and kill us all... ...unless Voyager spotted them beforehand.
IronChefMorimoto
Even worse -- the Voyager probe isn't losing market share to predominantly African American probes or the WB space administration. I won't even get into the Veronica Mars Mission budget.
IronChefMorimoto
Adobe started putting product activation (as did Macromedia) into their stuff with CS, I believe. Mainly Photoshop for Windows. Maybe Acrobat too.
Well, I just rebuilt my system last night and realized that, unlike Macromedia's software suite, I can't transfer the activation to new hardware without going through the phone call rigamarole. Or so I thought. Adobe didn't follow Macromedia's lead until Acrobat 7, I think, so I was left calling and asking friggin' permission to move my installation to a completely new computer.
In the end, I re-activated on a completely different set of hardware via the Internet anyway. Don't know if was a grace re-activation or what, but I wonder if it'll happen again like that. Perhaps I'll be calling after the next upgrade.
I hope this becomes standard fare for software requiring product activation. I can't say if it's a necessary evil or just plain evil, but for God's sake make it easy to upgrade to a new machine.
IronChefMorimoto
Even more interesting is that today you can build yourself a custom, massively parallel computer on a shoestring budget. All you need is a handful of FPGAs, a PCB layout service like Pad2Pad, a few other parts, and reasonable VHDL or Verilog skills. That's more or less what OpenRT did to build their SaarCORE architecture. :-)
/. users with user #'s lower than my 600K series...#...[thud]
Holy Christ. I just had an acronym anyeurism.
Bleeding out of ear...dying...damn you
...for Pentagram Design, Mr. Reeves and Mr. Pacino, had no additional comment regarding the future plans of collaboration between Apple and Pentagram.
IronChefMorimoto
...in the future, according to Joss Whedon's short-lived "Firefly" series, we'll speak a variation of Mandarin Chinese (???).
And yes, I pretty much don't know WTF I'm talking about.
IronChefMorimoto
So that's what happened to Michael Jackson's nose.
When did his "The More You Know!" PSA air?
IronChefMorimoto
When the masses for a particular market DEMAND wireless versions of useful websites in droves, then I think this is an issue.
Maybe it's my limited American view, but I don't see a helluva lot of people walking around with pricey Treos and WiFi PDAs that need or want to surf the friggin' Internet. Maybe it's different in more cell phone/gadget advanced countries.
Personally, I think it's the gadget crowd that wants it, and until that crowd constitutes a large enough market to garner the attention of those paying the web developer or interactive agency invoices, it ain't happening.
IronChefMorimoto
So...you want them to start CHARGING for GMail?
Come on -- I've been a Gmail user for all of 7 days as of today, and I think it's the best thing since sliced bread. Synchronization of sent mail between Outlook and the web interface? No banner advertising? Simple to use interface? No tagged ads at the bottom of every e-mail.
And who gives a rat's ass if I see contextual text ads based on e-mail content? Fine with me until someone definitively proves that Gmail administrators are beating off to my missives to the wife in a remote office park. At that point, I'll change the service just because...well...I don't even beat off to those e-mails.
If you want all the above, you want door #2 -- labeled Yahoo!, AOL, etc. Jeez.
And to think that I was paying $10/month to keep my shitbox Mindspring/Earthlink account open for e-mail addresses I'd had for 7 years. And getting ONLY 10MB per account for each address. To quote Awesome-O, "Lame. Totally lame."
IronChefMorimoto