I was wondering why somebody didn't try this before. It would allow you to play copied games on xbox live without getting banned as well since the main xbox firmware hasn't been tampered with, nor has any other hardware been modified in any way.
I suppose microsoft could detect this on live by scanning the dvd drives firmware, but the data contained on the firmware itself could easily be spoofed. The other software on the xbox has to relie on whatever the firmware itself says it has. Somebody could just add code to the firmware that sends false data to external reads. All it has to do is report whatever data the console would expect it to have and then detection would become impossible.
People who would want to cheat on xbox live would be out of luck, since afterall, the signature checks are still in place.
I use Sprint too, but I got the Sanyo MM-9000. It has all of the features of the A900 and the RAZR, plus it allows you to upload MP3, AAC, MPEG-4 video, and image files to its minisd port (which supports up to 2GB minisd cards) via the USB mass storage protocol, so it is driverless. Then you can move those files into the phones internal memory (through the phone's UI) for use as wallpapers, ringtones, etc.
The only thing the 9000 doesn't have is the buttons on the front of the phone so that you can rewind or fast forward the audio while the phone is closed. It does allow you to play, pause, and skip to the next song while the phone is closed though.
But then to some degree, there's content here that gets moderated due to legal reasons also.
Such as?
The only thing that comes to mind for me is child pornography. Everything else is completely legal, except in some states where homosexuality and bestiality are illegal. The exception to these rules is if it is animated. As a matter of case law, anything that is animated is legal, no matter what it is.
Yes, I recall the news stories of the time. They went along the lines of: Cartoons are only for children. More children can identify Joe Camel than Micky Mouse. Thus Joe Camel is marketing cigarettes to children.
Try again. They subpoenad internal memos from the company that found executives stating that demographic research found that less than 5% of smokers start after the age of 24, 30% start between the ages of 18 and 23, and the rest start before the age of 18, thus they needed to focus their marketing towards that demographic. That is exactly what they did.
Kids watch more cartoons than adults do. I can agree with that. However, that's not what you said. it is generally kids and not adults that watch cartoons. is saying that adults do not watch cartoons.
No it is not, you are only trying to play with the semantics because you know you were wrong and you are trying to save face. It says plain as day that generally kids watch cartoons, and generally adults do not watch cartoons. It does not imply at all that adults don't watch cartoons at all.
I'll give you SouthPark. It's a bit abstract, but does include those things. However, SouthPark is the exception, not the rule. Now for a good example of what I was talking about, look at Inu Yasha. This cartoon is heavily censored in the US, as are most anime.
I have never seen that show, but very few adults watch cartoons, and even fewer watch foreign cartoons. It is mostly younger audiences that do. That is probably why the distributor decided to censor it.
And also, southpark isn't the only show. There are many others, take sex and the city for example.
These changes to Al-Shamshoon's were not enacted by a restriction from the Government, it was a choice of the MBC to change the content to make it less offensive to arabic viewers.
Well, I think local islamic law may play into it as well. For example, I can think of many episodes that involved a christian church. It is illegal to display christianity in any form in many middle eastern countries (although they can mention Jesus [peace be upon him], they can't worship him.) Also, all references to homosexuality will have to be removed completely, as the laws there vehemently forbid any mention of it (unless you are speaking against it.) The gay marraige episode for example will probably never air there because it condones it.
* FWIW, I am not a muslim (I am an atheist) I just added the pbuh in there because it points out that jesus is recognized as a prophet under islam.
Tell that to Joe Camel. Perhaps there wouldn't be criminal charges, but I can guarantee that they would be sued.
Last I checked, no TV shows were meant to sell toxic chemicals with the intent of human consumption. It was proven in court that the Camel cigarette advertising campaigns were targeted specifically at children. That is why they were sued.
Ah yes, Animation is reserved for children in the US. Any adult that enjoys animation must have something mentally wrong with them. Never mind that animation provides a simple, cheap medium for surrealistic story telling. Nevermind that the opinion that cartoons should be reserved for children didn't exist in the US until sometime in the 80s.
Quit trolling and putting words in my mouth. I never said any of these things nor implied it. What I said is that in general, kids watch cartoons more than adults do. Nothing more, nothing less. If anything, the examples at hand (the simpsons, southpark) that I am giving imply the opposite, as they are mostly watched by older audiences.
As it stands in the US, you have to use bittorrent (or other P2P program) to obtain uncensored material.
No you don't you moronic little troll. Either you don't live in the US and you know next to nothing about it, or you live under a rock. Either way you are completely ignorant. You can see them on HBO, at the movies, through rental stores, or often times on regular cable TV. Comedy Central regularly broadcasts the southpark movie for example, which includes lots of nudity and lots of swear words. And yes, they broadcast it completely uncensored, and all of that swearing and nudity remains fully intact in its full glory.
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So, yes, the US does censor content coming from foreign countries, the same as this Al-Shamshoons does in Arabia.
No, it does not. The networks that air these programs choose to do this voluntarily. Take southpark for example. They have a lot of swear words in there that are beeped out, but the implication is there, along with the implication of sexual themes (sometimes even gay or bestiality, both of which are very frowned upon by the majority in the states.)
The main reason they are beeped out is because they want to maximize their sponsors' audience. There was one southpark episode where they used the word "shit" some hundred of times, and it wasn't bleeped out. That was part of the theme of the episode and they did it just for fun, and no government organization censored it, nor would they care to. The content of all cable/satellite channels is not at all subject to FCC regulations, even though most people do have access to and watch these channels. The premium channels (such as HBO) are different. They only respond directly to their subscribers and not their sponsors, so they base their content on what their viewers want to see, which generally will include swear words, nudity, etc.
Only off the air terrestrial content is actually covered by government/FCC regulations because it uses airwaves that are in the public spectrum, and these airwaves are leased from the FCC.
The swear words being removed out of anime is solely at the discression of the publisher, and that of the network choosing to air the show. If the publisher and somebody like cartoon network wanted to, they could add those words back in and there would be no legal retribution whatsoever.
Also consider that there are many popular movies in the US that contain the words "fucking christ," and nobody really cares.
Also FWIW, I am an American, and I am politically right wing, and so are all of my friends. But I can't even think of one person I know who is offended by these words or nudity when they are used in movies or shows. The only time they don't like it is when kids are around when this stuff is being used. That is why most people who publish cartoons in the US will remove these words. In the American demographic, it is generally kids and not adults that watch cartoons.
I wish there was a way to refuse to allow any of the tax dollars a person pays in to be used for something so stupid.
That would be cool. Then we could get rid of the National Endowment of the Arts, National Endowment of the Humanities, Social Security who mostly wastes money (e.g. they spent $9 billion on administrative expenses alone in 2003,) Title IX, quit giving government funding to Amtrack (we have 747's for transcontinental travel now,) reduce our contributions to the UN since we give them upwards of 25% of their funding, and we give them about 80% of the rest of their non monetary resources, completely halt all government funding to PBS, and get rid of the no child left behind act.
These things would save upwards of a trillion or two dollars a year off of our country's bottom line.
When is the last time you saw Liberals kill large amounts of people?
Well, lets see. Communism, the ultimate form of liberalism, was responsible for about a million dead.:)
But useless rhetoric aside, I assume that this large amounts of people you are implying refers to the Iraq war? I think it is only fair to point out that half a million died in Iraq under UN sanctions that the liberals supported and the conservatives wanted to do away with. In fact, Madeline Albright was quoted as saying that the price of five hundred thousand dead from disease and starvation (arguably the worst ways that somebody can die) was worth it for temporary peace.
(oh and by the way, when CNN aired this interview with her, they edited out that portion of it, though I am uncertain of the exact reason why, but I think I have a good idea)
If you care to notice, the death rate in Iraq is now lower now than before the Iraq war, as well as people there now actually have access to large quantities of fresh water, food, and education whereas they didn't before. So if anything it seems to me that we are saving large amounts of people as well as improving their overall quality of life.
Also, for what it is worth (kind of off scope of the discussion,) many top democrats were supportive of the war prior to it actually happening. In fact, in many cases they were more vocal about Saddam having WMD's than Bush was. See a few quotes from them below:
Are abortion clinic bombings not counting as a form of protest?
No it is not, that is called terrorism and not protest (huge difference,) and those people are called fundamentalist terrorists, not conservatives, and we treat them just like we treat e.g. islamic terrorists (if not worse actually, because there's no ACLU like organization to defend their criminal activity.) Even the most hated (by liberals) conservative pundits such as Bush, O'reilly, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, etc will tell you the same thing and nobody in the Republican party endorses this at all.
These extremists don't even call themselves conservatives. In fact, groups like them and the KKK tend to hate the Republican party more than they hate the Democratic party. (Actually it is worth noting that the KKK started from the democratic party. In fact there are a few democrats currently in office, such as senator Robert Byrd, that are ex-clansmen.)
Is invading a country without the support of the world humble or putting yourself above them?
I don't like to answer a question with a question, but who is the world exactly? The US coalition in Iraq is officially backed by 30 other nations, and passively supported by approximately another 15. The "world" argument I typically see is only represented by the UN's voice. However, the UN's sanctions were what were responsible for the half million deaths in Iraq. Even the Clinton administration was getting on them about this, and he even knew that something needed to be done about Saddam very soon. George Bush knowing this decided to kill three birds with one stone, the third bird being that we need a powerful ally for a foothold in the middle east to better fight the war on terror. Iraq has a huge potential of being an economic superpower just because of it's oil reserves, so when people say this war is about oil, they are technically correct, but not in the sense that they otherwise believe.
But that aside, even if the entire world was against it, that doesn't mean they are correct. You should know that democracy itself isn't about majority rule, but rather the balance of power of all parties involved. Our constitution is designed exactly to this effect. FWIW, when Abraham Lincoln declared an end to s
What these survey readers (and givers) need to realize is that it is not "OK" to be an atheist in this country; it is a conservative, dangerous environment within which to choose to come out for atheism and it is also time-consuming
Strange...I am both atheist and conservative (I voted for Bush even, and would do it again given the chance)...I don't seem to be in any danger.
I guess what sets me apart from other atheists is that I never feel it necessary to just arbitrarily attack religion. The fact is that, try as you might, the existence of a god can neither be proven nor disproven. I don't know why most people can't just leave it at that and look at it as a simple difference of oppinion instead of bickering about it all day long. In case you haven't noticed, even most self proclaimed atheist scientists even have wildly varying differences of oppinion.
And no, I am not an agnostic. Agnostics aren't sure whether or not there's a god. An true atheist is somebody who simply lacks the belief of there being a god. Most poeple who call themselves atheist are actually anti-theist. In other words, they religiously believe that there is no god and will not hear it any other way (e.g. they are dogmatic about it,) and religiously attack those who believe in a god. You, sir, definitely fit in the anti-theist category (not that there is anything inherently wrong with it, just that you are a bit more close minded than you realize, but then so is everybody to a degree.)
Granted, this is all my oppinion of course, and many anti-theists who call themselves atheists will probably vehemently and dogmatically disagree with it.
Conservatives are humble in their views (When was the last time you ever saw a conservative protest get violent? I can't recall a single one honestly. Liberal protests get violent all the time.) I am humble in my views, therefore I am conservative.
well we'll just have to agree that you're being paid a lot of money by them.
Now see, the problem with slashdot is that it is generally dominated by trolls that are given high karma boosters. The truth is, I am about as associated with microsoft as Ghandi is associated with Hitler.
PDF as a format is fine, but as of yet I haven't seen any good PDF viewer. GSView is nice and fast, but it is crash proned, its search features really don't work that well, and it has bad rendering. Adobe Bloatware's Acrobloat Reader *works* the best, but man is it bloated and slow.
I don't really care if the format is opened or closed so long as it doesn't piss me off every time I view it.
Emule makes it simple to spot fakes and corrupt files. Right click on the file in your transfers section, click on details, then click the file name tab.
What will show up is all of the different names of that file as the other peers on the network have it stored. If you see more than half of them with a different name, then it's an obvious fake.
Once it passes that test, if it has multiple people sharing it (e.g. 50 or above, but this number can vary depending on the popularity) then it probably isn't corrupt, or else that many people wouldn't be keeping it up.
If you do your searches by availability, and you do the fake check, you should rarely (if ever? I have yet to myself once using these guidelines) download a fake or corrupt file.
And yes, emule is getting more popular than bittorrent because it is easier, not to mention that it also isn't laden with slow websites to sift through, java popups that not even firefox can deal with without crippling it with anti-java extensions, and no guarentee that the particular website you are looking through has what you want. Emule on the other hand, if what you are looking for does exist, you'll find it for certain.
until all of the big banks "require" Trusted Hardware(tm) before they let you access your account online
Right, now why exactly would any banks require all of their customers to use it when none of their customers have it? Sounds like a good reason to switch to another bank to me, or another vendor as well.
Unless your a tinfoil hat junkie who has a vital political message to spread that the government doesn't want anybody to hear about, then you'll have an entire lifetime of fun!
All cable companies do it right now, every single one of them. They probably don't advertise it because they'd rather you not use cablecard (they make a killing off of you leasing or buying the digital cable box off of them.)
They were federally mandated to carry the cablecards by June 1st 2004. I already know for certain cox is doing it, and they don't advertise it at all. The only way you can find out about it is if you dig around their website.
Hmm...I thought high energy waves are dangerous because they collide with the chromatin (since it is the thickest material in the cell and therefore the most likely for them to collide with) either severing it completely by fragmenting a huge portion of it (in which case the cell will either die or be destroyed by the immune system, it has almost no chance of survival here thus no mutation occurs) or damaging a small portion which if the proper enzymes are available, will re-attach on the 5 prime end, but the re-attachment doesn't leave the DNA in its exact previous state, thus an effective mutation can occur (be it good or bad.)
But then the previous case could also be good as well though. The most widely held theory about the difference between males and females is that a huge segment of chromatim simply broke off and the resulting organism was able to thrive.
I could see why 99.9999% of them would have negative results (since you have several million energy waves hitting the chromatim at a time,) as opposed to the 90% of natural mutations. But I would guess that there should still exist the possibility that a mutation triggered by high energy waves could provide some benefit (although I would strongly advise against exposing yourself to high energy radiation if you wanted to become superman.)
I suspect they expect it to be replaced with Linux or Windows by the user. By not having to pay for Windows, they are able to include better hardware. They probably didn't want the support burden of bundling the PC with a Linux distribution.
Or perhapse they simply didn't want to pay the Microsoft tax? Sure many people use linux, but lets be honest here, the majority of those who buy a PC with an OS like this one will just replace it with a pirated microsoft OS.
I am willing to bet that the average linux user is savy enough to simply build his own PC. Honestly, what linux user can't do this?
When you pay for cable you are not paying for the content on the TV (with the exception of premium channels) you are paying for the delivery of the channels.
When you pay for cable TV, the cable company has to pay the networks a 'per subscriber' fee, which needless to say the cable company passes on to you.
AFAIK the higher frequency electromagnetic radiation you use, the more susceptable the signal is to physical interference (although the energy "particles" dissipate less so that it can have a more reliable signal over further distances.) I somehow doubt we would ever see HDTV coming in via telescope, unless of course you can find a cure for bad weather.
I only recently started taking chemistry courses though, somebody correct me if I am wrong.
why would they track something like this in the remote and not just the unit itself?
Read what I posted. If you press the mute button on the remote for example, it sends two simultaneous infrared signals: One telling the DVR that the mute button was pressed, thus it logs it, and another one giving the mute command to the TV.
i think you're making things up or supposing things.
I have been hacking tivos for almost three years now. My reputation in the tivo hacking scene should speak for itself. After a while one tends to notice these things, especially while probing the tivos log files and probing the MFS structure.
Nielsen cheerfully tells you what shows are watched, but won't tell you whether the audience kept the commercials on, or whether they muted them, skipped forward, or changed channels for 3 minutes.
Actually reporting what commercials are viewed to completion with sound-on would radically change televsion programming and advertising.
FWIW, Tivos have the ability to do all of this, assuming of course that the owner of the Tivo uses the stock remote instead of a universal remote, and most Tivo owners do use the stock remote.
The tivo remote also has the ability to control your TV and your sound system, and when e.g. you press the mute button, adjust the volume, or turn off the tv, the remote simultaneously sends another IR signal to the tivo telling the tivo what button was pressed, and the tivo logs it and reports it to the company every night. It also logs when you fast forward, rewind, instant replay, etc. It also logs what recordings you have watched throughout the day, how long you've watched them for, how many times you've watched them, etc.
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I suppose microsoft could detect this on live by scanning the dvd drives firmware, but the data contained on the firmware itself could easily be spoofed. The other software on the xbox has to relie on whatever the firmware itself says it has. Somebody could just add code to the firmware that sends false data to external reads. All it has to do is report whatever data the console would expect it to have and then detection would become impossible.
People who would want to cheat on xbox live would be out of luck, since afterall, the signature checks are still in place.
I use Sprint too, but I got the Sanyo MM-9000. It has all of the features of the A900 and the RAZR, plus it allows you to upload MP3, AAC, MPEG-4 video, and image files to its minisd port (which supports up to 2GB minisd cards) via the USB mass storage protocol, so it is driverless. Then you can move those files into the phones internal memory (through the phone's UI) for use as wallpapers, ringtones, etc.
The only thing the 9000 doesn't have is the buttons on the front of the phone so that you can rewind or fast forward the audio while the phone is closed. It does allow you to play, pause, and skip to the next song while the phone is closed though.
Such as?
The only thing that comes to mind for me is child pornography. Everything else is completely legal, except in some states where homosexuality and bestiality are illegal. The exception to these rules is if it is animated. As a matter of case law, anything that is animated is legal, no matter what it is.
Try again. They subpoenad internal memos from the company that found executives stating that demographic research found that less than 5% of smokers start after the age of 24, 30% start between the ages of 18 and 23, and the rest start before the age of 18, thus they needed to focus their marketing towards that demographic. That is exactly what they did.
Kids watch more cartoons than adults do. I can agree with that. However, that's not what you said. it is generally kids and not adults that watch cartoons. is saying that adults do not watch cartoons.
No it is not, you are only trying to play with the semantics because you know you were wrong and you are trying to save face. It says plain as day that generally kids watch cartoons, and generally adults do not watch cartoons. It does not imply at all that adults don't watch cartoons at all.
I'll give you SouthPark. It's a bit abstract, but does include those things. However, SouthPark is the exception, not the rule. Now for a good example of what I was talking about, look at Inu Yasha. This cartoon is heavily censored in the US, as are most anime.
I have never seen that show, but very few adults watch cartoons, and even fewer watch foreign cartoons. It is mostly younger audiences that do. That is probably why the distributor decided to censor it.
And also, southpark isn't the only show. There are many others, take sex and the city for example.
Well, I think local islamic law may play into it as well. For example, I can think of many episodes that involved a christian church. It is illegal to display christianity in any form in many middle eastern countries (although they can mention Jesus [peace be upon him], they can't worship him.) Also, all references to homosexuality will have to be removed completely, as the laws there vehemently forbid any mention of it (unless you are speaking against it.) The gay marraige episode for example will probably never air there because it condones it.
* FWIW, I am not a muslim (I am an atheist) I just added the pbuh in there because it points out that jesus is recognized as a prophet under islam.
Last I checked, no TV shows were meant to sell toxic chemicals with the intent of human consumption. It was proven in court that the Camel cigarette advertising campaigns were targeted specifically at children. That is why they were sued.
Ah yes, Animation is reserved for children in the US. Any adult that enjoys animation must have something mentally wrong with them. Never mind that animation provides a simple, cheap medium for surrealistic story telling. Nevermind that the opinion that cartoons should be reserved for children didn't exist in the US until sometime in the 80s.
Quit trolling and putting words in my mouth. I never said any of these things nor implied it. What I said is that in general, kids watch cartoons more than adults do. Nothing more, nothing less. If anything, the examples at hand (the simpsons, southpark) that I am giving imply the opposite, as they are mostly watched by older audiences.
As it stands in the US, you have to use bittorrent (or other P2P program) to obtain uncensored material.
No you don't you moronic little troll. Either you don't live in the US and you know next to nothing about it, or you live under a rock. Either way you are completely ignorant. You can see them on HBO, at the movies, through rental stores, or often times on regular cable TV. Comedy Central regularly broadcasts the southpark movie for example, which includes lots of nudity and lots of swear words. And yes, they broadcast it completely uncensored, and all of that swearing and nudity remains fully intact in its full glory.
No, it does not. The networks that air these programs choose to do this voluntarily. Take southpark for example. They have a lot of swear words in there that are beeped out, but the implication is there, along with the implication of sexual themes (sometimes even gay or bestiality, both of which are very frowned upon by the majority in the states.)
The main reason they are beeped out is because they want to maximize their sponsors' audience. There was one southpark episode where they used the word "shit" some hundred of times, and it wasn't bleeped out. That was part of the theme of the episode and they did it just for fun, and no government organization censored it, nor would they care to. The content of all cable/satellite channels is not at all subject to FCC regulations, even though most people do have access to and watch these channels. The premium channels (such as HBO) are different. They only respond directly to their subscribers and not their sponsors, so they base their content on what their viewers want to see, which generally will include swear words, nudity, etc.
Only off the air terrestrial content is actually covered by government/FCC regulations because it uses airwaves that are in the public spectrum, and these airwaves are leased from the FCC.
The swear words being removed out of anime is solely at the discression of the publisher, and that of the network choosing to air the show. If the publisher and somebody like cartoon network wanted to, they could add those words back in and there would be no legal retribution whatsoever.
Also consider that there are many popular movies in the US that contain the words "fucking christ," and nobody really cares.
Also FWIW, I am an American, and I am politically right wing, and so are all of my friends. But I can't even think of one person I know who is offended by these words or nudity when they are used in movies or shows. The only time they don't like it is when kids are around when this stuff is being used. That is why most people who publish cartoons in the US will remove these words. In the American demographic, it is generally kids and not adults that watch cartoons.
That would be cool. Then we could get rid of the National Endowment of the Arts, National Endowment of the Humanities, Social Security who mostly wastes money (e.g. they spent $9 billion on administrative expenses alone in 2003,) Title IX, quit giving government funding to Amtrack (we have 747's for transcontinental travel now,) reduce our contributions to the UN since we give them upwards of 25% of their funding, and we give them about 80% of the rest of their non monetary resources, completely halt all government funding to PBS, and get rid of the no child left behind act.
These things would save upwards of a trillion or two dollars a year off of our country's bottom line.
Well, lets see. Communism, the ultimate form of liberalism, was responsible for about a million dead. :)
But useless rhetoric aside, I assume that this large amounts of people you are implying refers to the Iraq war? I think it is only fair to point out that half a million died in Iraq under UN sanctions that the liberals supported and the conservatives wanted to do away with. In fact, Madeline Albright was quoted as saying that the price of five hundred thousand dead from disease and starvation (arguably the worst ways that somebody can die) was worth it for temporary peace.
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1084
(oh and by the way, when CNN aired this interview with her, they edited out that portion of it, though I am uncertain of the exact reason why, but I think I have a good idea)
If you care to notice, the death rate in Iraq is now lower now than before the Iraq war, as well as people there now actually have access to large quantities of fresh water, food, and education whereas they didn't before. So if anything it seems to me that we are saving large amounts of people as well as improving their overall quality of life.
Also, for what it is worth (kind of off scope of the discussion,) many top democrats were supportive of the war prior to it actually happening. In fact, in many cases they were more vocal about Saddam having WMD's than Bush was. See a few quotes from them below:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1007910/p osts
Are abortion clinic bombings not counting as a form of protest?
No it is not, that is called terrorism and not protest (huge difference,) and those people are called fundamentalist terrorists, not conservatives, and we treat them just like we treat e.g. islamic terrorists (if not worse actually, because there's no ACLU like organization to defend their criminal activity.) Even the most hated (by liberals) conservative pundits such as Bush, O'reilly, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, etc will tell you the same thing and nobody in the Republican party endorses this at all.
These extremists don't even call themselves conservatives. In fact, groups like them and the KKK tend to hate the Republican party more than they hate the Democratic party. (Actually it is worth noting that the KKK started from the democratic party. In fact there are a few democrats currently in office, such as senator Robert Byrd, that are ex-clansmen.)
Is invading a country without the support of the world humble or putting yourself above them?
I don't like to answer a question with a question, but who is the world exactly? The US coalition in Iraq is officially backed by 30 other nations, and passively supported by approximately another 15. The "world" argument I typically see is only represented by the UN's voice. However, the UN's sanctions were what were responsible for the half million deaths in Iraq. Even the Clinton administration was getting on them about this, and he even knew that something needed to be done about Saddam very soon. George Bush knowing this decided to kill three birds with one stone, the third bird being that we need a powerful ally for a foothold in the middle east to better fight the war on terror. Iraq has a huge potential of being an economic superpower just because of it's oil reserves, so when people say this war is about oil, they are technically correct, but not in the sense that they otherwise believe.
But that aside, even if the entire world was against it, that doesn't mean they are correct. You should know that democracy itself isn't about majority rule, but rather the balance of power of all parties involved. Our constitution is designed exactly to this effect. FWIW, when Abraham Lincoln declared an end to s
Strange...I am both atheist and conservative (I voted for Bush even, and would do it again given the chance)...I don't seem to be in any danger.
I guess what sets me apart from other atheists is that I never feel it necessary to just arbitrarily attack religion. The fact is that, try as you might, the existence of a god can neither be proven nor disproven. I don't know why most people can't just leave it at that and look at it as a simple difference of oppinion instead of bickering about it all day long. In case you haven't noticed, even most self proclaimed atheist scientists even have wildly varying differences of oppinion.
And no, I am not an agnostic. Agnostics aren't sure whether or not there's a god. An true atheist is somebody who simply lacks the belief of there being a god. Most poeple who call themselves atheist are actually anti-theist. In other words, they religiously believe that there is no god and will not hear it any other way (e.g. they are dogmatic about it,) and religiously attack those who believe in a god. You, sir, definitely fit in the anti-theist category (not that there is anything inherently wrong with it, just that you are a bit more close minded than you realize, but then so is everybody to a degree.)
Granted, this is all my oppinion of course, and many anti-theists who call themselves atheists will probably vehemently and dogmatically disagree with it.
Conservatives are humble in their views (When was the last time you ever saw a conservative protest get violent? I can't recall a single one honestly. Liberal protests get violent all the time.) I am humble in my views, therefore I am conservative.
Now see, the problem with slashdot is that it is generally dominated by trolls that are given high karma boosters. The truth is, I am about as associated with microsoft as Ghandi is associated with Hitler.
PDF as a format is fine, but as of yet I haven't seen any good PDF viewer. GSView is nice and fast, but it is crash proned, its search features really don't work that well, and it has bad rendering. Adobe Bloatware's Acrobloat Reader *works* the best, but man is it bloated and slow.
I don't really care if the format is opened or closed so long as it doesn't piss me off every time I view it.
But is that really a bad thing?
What will show up is all of the different names of that file as the other peers on the network have it stored. If you see more than half of them with a different name, then it's an obvious fake.
Once it passes that test, if it has multiple people sharing it (e.g. 50 or above, but this number can vary depending on the popularity) then it probably isn't corrupt, or else that many people wouldn't be keeping it up.
If you do your searches by availability, and you do the fake check, you should rarely (if ever? I have yet to myself once using these guidelines) download a fake or corrupt file.
And yes, emule is getting more popular than bittorrent because it is easier, not to mention that it also isn't laden with slow websites to sift through, java popups that not even firefox can deal with without crippling it with anti-java extensions, and no guarentee that the particular website you are looking through has what you want. Emule on the other hand, if what you are looking for does exist, you'll find it for certain.
Only on slashdot can Iranian censorship remind you of how evil the US is.
Right, now why exactly would any banks require all of their customers to use it when none of their customers have it? Sounds like a good reason to switch to another bank to me, or another vendor as well.
Unless your a tinfoil hat junkie who has a vital political message to spread that the government doesn't want anybody to hear about, then you'll have an entire lifetime of fun!
All cable companies do it right now, every single one of them. They probably don't advertise it because they'd rather you not use cablecard (they make a killing off of you leasing or buying the digital cable box off of them.) They were federally mandated to carry the cablecards by June 1st 2004. I already know for certain cox is doing it, and they don't advertise it at all. The only way you can find out about it is if you dig around their website.
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But then the previous case could also be good as well though. The most widely held theory about the difference between males and females is that a huge segment of chromatim simply broke off and the resulting organism was able to thrive. I could see why 99.9999% of them would have negative results (since you have several million energy waves hitting the chromatim at a time,) as opposed to the 90% of natural mutations. But I would guess that there should still exist the possibility that a mutation triggered by high energy waves could provide some benefit (although I would strongly advise against exposing yourself to high energy radiation if you wanted to become superman.)
'Course I am not an expert in biology.
Although many mutations don't do anything at all. The DNA might be altered but the same protein ends up being produced during RNA transcription.
I suspect they expect it to be replaced with Linux or Windows by the user. By not having to pay for Windows, they are able to include better hardware. They probably didn't want the support burden of bundling the PC with a Linux distribution.
Or perhapse they simply didn't want to pay the Microsoft tax? Sure many people use linux, but lets be honest here, the majority of those who buy a PC with an OS like this one will just replace it with a pirated microsoft OS.
I am willing to bet that the average linux user is savy enough to simply build his own PC. Honestly, what linux user can't do this?
When you pay for cable TV, the cable company has to pay the networks a 'per subscriber' fee, which needless to say the cable company passes on to you.
I only recently started taking chemistry courses though, somebody correct me if I am wrong.
Read what I posted. If you press the mute button on the remote for example, it sends two simultaneous infrared signals: One telling the DVR that the mute button was pressed, thus it logs it, and another one giving the mute command to the TV.
i think you're making things up or supposing things.
I have been hacking tivos for almost three years now. My reputation in the tivo hacking scene should speak for itself. After a while one tends to notice these things, especially while probing the tivos log files and probing the MFS structure.
Actually reporting what commercials are viewed to completion with sound-on would radically change televsion programming and advertising.
FWIW, Tivos have the ability to do all of this, assuming of course that the owner of the Tivo uses the stock remote instead of a universal remote, and most Tivo owners do use the stock remote.
The tivo remote also has the ability to control your TV and your sound system, and when e.g. you press the mute button, adjust the volume, or turn off the tv, the remote simultaneously sends another IR signal to the tivo telling the tivo what button was pressed, and the tivo logs it and reports it to the company every night. It also logs when you fast forward, rewind, instant replay, etc. It also logs what recordings you have watched throughout the day, how long you've watched them for, how many times you've watched them, etc.