Seconded. I've heard that alot but so far nobody has actually been able to provide anything that could really be considered creating a new law from scratch.
Ok a good starter would be the fairly recent decsion about emanate domain which was expanded to include commerical projects and not just highways amd other public works. This gave the govermnet a power it didn't have before. Can you tell me with a straight face that this didn't have the exact same level of impact as a new law would? They weren't protecting our rights. They weren't even enforcing the rights the goverment had before the trail. They made something completely new that expanded the goverments power. That is what most laws are in the end, something new that expands goverment power.
Women are 3 times more likely to attempt suicide than men, HOWEVER Men are 4 times more likely to die in a suicide attempt. Is this just because men are better at killing themselves than women? Or perhaps there is a gender difference in the reasoning behind why people choose to attempt suicide.
My point, basically, (perhaps I should have been more clear) was that things aren't always black or white and the media should not print names until after the verdict is delivered.
Exactly, I mean look at what happend to OJ.....the first trial I mean.
Only because the Roman Senate was pounding on the door and demanding his death. Had Nero not committed suicide, he would have been dead a half hour later through other means.
Or maybe he was just lonely. No one understands a crazed dictator. Nero was so emo.
Not this week, I heard the chair budget got cut on account of increased costs from the United Union of Broken Windows.(Look hard for the double meaning there)
Why can't CEOs and such be satisfied with slow, even growth? Why does everything have to be aggressive leveraging of opportunity? Slashdot is never, ever going to be the next NYT or Washington Post. Why not just be satisfied with a job well done and a decent, reasonable profit?
Bahahahahaha!
I'm sorry you were serious, let me laugh harder.
if you go from action->object to object->action, you would still have to display all the objects available and then display all the actions available : you didn't reduce choice or the difficulty to navigate the interface at all.
From a pratical standpoint you would have to
limit the players actions to the obvious.
Now you know why console RPG's always seem to be dumbed down.
The problem with that argument (though I do find it somewhat sympathetic) is that compromises are necessary in government or nothing will get done (though maybe not a bad thing), which means that Obama voting for the bill with telecom immunity (saying he voted for telecom immunity is at best imprecise and at worst misleading, as he voted against it when it was by itself) doesn't necessarily say a whole lot. It is a very large and totally unsupported jump to equate that with anything along the lines of he would have done it in office or whatever.
It's a less extreme what you'll sometimes see where some legislator will attach $PET_PROJECT which most people are against to some bill that provides for increased child abduction protection or something. It's politically extremely hard to vote against something like that, or next election you'll get reamed during the campaign on that issue.
Because of this, it's even hard to say that Obama really supported (himself, as opposed to part of his platform) the bill that he voted for, since he could have easily been worried that voting against the bill would have hurt him in the election if he was portrayed as even weaker on national security than he was.
If that's your argument how can you hate republicans? They're just supporting themelves like Obama did.
The flow of money will find a way; for instance were we to set hard caps on campaign money and level the playing field the money (incentives) would just find another way from the constituency to the politician.
That's not a "for instance". A "for instance" is followed by a specific example.
So, according to you, Obama == democrats. Hmmm, that's like saying that ME == set of all sexy men in the world. It's a little far fetched.
And what branch of government is the NSA part of? And how many Democrats run that branch? Answers - executive, NONE.
The comment was *who* was tapping and wrecking the whistleblower's life - not who has been ineffective at stopping the Republican President from wiretapping.
So tell me again why simply saying that it's Republicans who are committing these crimes is ideological? Got news for you. Nixon was a Republican, and that is also a fact.
No matter how yoou dance the fact remains that Obama voted for the telecom immunity. So did a lot of other Democrats.
To be pedantic, the emulators are perfectly legal; the pirated ROMs are not (although there are a few good original distributed-as-free-software ROMs.)
Depends. Some of them require an illegal copy of the bios.
"exactly the same" is a bit strange for a password, isn't it?
No it's perfect. If you get torchered you'll be screaming that all your passwords are extactly the same and your captors will be clueless as to why they can't break you.
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Seconded. I've heard that alot but so far nobody has actually been able to provide anything that could really be considered creating a new law from scratch.
Ok a good starter would be the fairly recent decsion about emanate domain which was expanded to include commerical projects and not just highways amd other public works. This gave the govermnet a power it didn't have before. Can you tell me with a straight face that this didn't have the exact same level of impact as a new law would? They weren't protecting our rights. They weren't even enforcing the rights the goverment had before the trail. They made something completely new that expanded the goverments power. That is what most laws are in the end, something new that expands goverment power.
I would not proclaim myself a carnival freak, but that is everyone's personal decision.
and a proud decision it is.
Except nowadays people think that's a bad thing because instead of checks and balances it's called "activist judges".
That's because they had a nice streak of creating laws rather than enforcing rights. It's good to see them doing something useful for a change.
Too bad they're all nerds, but you can't have everything..."
I'm a geek you insensitive clod.
A world of difference there is.
Women are 3 times more likely to attempt suicide than men, HOWEVER Men are 4 times more likely to die in a suicide attempt. Is this just because men are better at killing themselves than women? Or perhaps there is a gender difference in the reasoning behind why people choose to attempt suicide.
Nope men are better at everything.....*ducks*
My point, basically, (perhaps I should have been more clear) was that things aren't always black or white and the media should not print names until after the verdict is delivered.
Exactly, I mean look at what happend to OJ.....the first trial I mean.
All 6 of us....muahahahahaha.
Only because the Roman Senate was pounding on the door and demanding his death. Had Nero not committed suicide, he would have been dead a half hour later through other means.
Or maybe he was just lonely. No one understands a crazed dictator. Nero was so emo.
Everyone is just argueing about semantics.
and chairs still fly
Not this week, I heard the chair budget got cut on account of increased costs from the United Union of Broken Windows.(Look hard for the double meaning there)
Stupid UUBW...ruining the fun.
D. The same way we dealt with Nero, Mussolini, and other tyrants..
Nero commited suicide.
Better yet, alienate your existing client base by screwing up something they like. Watch those growth number switch to negatives.
Layne
Then retire in style from all the short term profits you made by making the tough decisions. Ahh... the American dream .
Why can't CEOs and such be satisfied with slow, even growth? Why does everything have to be aggressive leveraging of opportunity? Slashdot is never, ever going to be the next NYT or Washington Post. Why not just be satisfied with a job well done and a decent, reasonable profit?
Bahahahahaha!
I'm sorry you were serious, let me laugh harder.
if you go from action->object to object->action, you would still have to display all the objects available and then display all the actions available : you didn't reduce choice or the difficulty to navigate the interface at all.
From a pratical standpoint you would have to limit the players actions to the obvious.
Now you know why console RPG's always seem to be dumbed down.
The problem with that argument (though I do find it somewhat sympathetic) is that compromises are necessary in government or nothing will get done (though maybe not a bad thing), which means that Obama voting for the bill with telecom immunity (saying he voted for telecom immunity is at best imprecise and at worst misleading, as he voted against it when it was by itself) doesn't necessarily say a whole lot. It is a very large and totally unsupported jump to equate that with anything along the lines of he would have done it in office or whatever.
It's a less extreme what you'll sometimes see where some legislator will attach $PET_PROJECT which most people are against to some bill that provides for increased child abduction protection or something. It's politically extremely hard to vote against something like that, or next election you'll get reamed during the campaign on that issue.
Because of this, it's even hard to say that Obama really supported (himself, as opposed to part of his platform) the bill that he voted for, since he could have easily been worried that voting against the bill would have hurt him in the election if he was portrayed as even weaker on national security than he was.
If that's your argument how can you hate republicans? They're just supporting themelves like Obama did.
The flow of money will find a way; for instance were we to set hard caps on campaign money and level the playing field the money (incentives) would just find another way from the constituency to the politician.
That's not a "for instance". A "for instance" is followed by a specific example.
So, according to you, Obama == democrats. Hmmm, that's like saying that ME == set of all sexy men in the world. It's a little far fetched.
And what branch of government is the NSA part of? And how many Democrats run that branch? Answers - executive, NONE.
The comment was *who* was tapping and wrecking the whistleblower's life - not who has been ineffective at stopping the Republican President from wiretapping.
So tell me again why simply saying that it's Republicans who are committing these crimes is ideological? Got news for you. Nixon was a Republican, and that is also a fact.
No matter how yoou dance the fact remains that Obama voted for the telecom immunity. So did a lot of other Democrats.
To be pedantic, the emulators are perfectly legal; the pirated ROMs are not (although there are a few good original distributed-as-free-software ROMs.)
Depends. Some of them require an illegal copy of the bios.
The greatest game that's less than a meg. http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/game/144
Most of us have only seen pictures of a shower.
Yeah but only because there were girls in them. Girls are hot in the shower. I wish I knew a girl, then I would shower often with her.
Ah but you don't meet girls because you dont' shower. It's a vicous circle.
It's great to move forward with new innovations, but let's not forget our roots here.
15 is legal in some states.
I was very confused, for a moment, as to why someone who was lit on fire would be screaming their passwords.
It's a perfectly cromulant method of torture.
"exactly the same" is a bit strange for a password, isn't it?
No it's perfect. If you get torchered you'll be screaming that all your passwords are extactly the same and your captors will be clueless as to why they can't break you.
Might as well talk about Vegetarian Vampires
I think fark.com had an article posted about that the other day.
Could be worse. You could make it all they way to the bottom and then die.
Well doesn't that happen to everyone who gets to the bottom. I mean eventually.