a piece of gear that will one day enable field scientists, hikers, explorers, soldiers, and disaster workers to convert mechanical energy generated by walking
This reminds me of a watch a friend had. It did not use batteries. It worked off the movement of his wrist/hand. He said the watch somehow converted kinetic energy into power for the watch. The watch was always fast, we suspected he masturbated too much.
But a backpack that will produce enough juice to run electronics. WOW!!
A while back, a friend went to Isle Royale, a primitive island off northern Michigan. He said a boat went there once a day, in the morning, and once it left, you were stuck on the island. No toilets, no running water, no nothing but wild wolves and a thick forrest. There was no doctor, no police, no anything. But people went there to hike and camp. He said in 6 days of deep hiking, he only ran into 2 other hikers.
Now imagine how portable batteries that charge off movement would change things...
He could take his cell phone with him, and know it would not die. So if work needed to call, they could. He could take his laptop, so for those insomniac nights he could catch up on work.
I dunno, when I go hiking, I take food and water. I don't think I would want 80 pounds of batteries on my back.
The usefullness of batteries would be on a truck. Toss a ton of batteries and generators on a truck, because the extra weight won't mean anything. But for a human, 80 pounds is a lot of extra weight if you also want to carry water.
I don't think the new versions of Firefox are secure.
In the past, when I would install Firefox, and use it, I would get one pop-up from my firewall saying "Firefox wants to access the internet". Now I get two. First it asks "Firefox wants to access the trusted zone". If you click "Yes", it then asks "Firefox wants to access the internet".
Wrong. If you don't understand the definition of "theory" in a scientific context, including the criteria that a given explanation must meet in order to be labelled a "theory", then you have no credibility when discussing science.
So you say that for anyone to have a discussion of evolution they must use your conventions of naming? I say bullshit.
You will learn more about evolution in the Bible than any PH.D. granting institution can teach you. And you will live a better life.
You should read "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Edwards.
How do you explain miricles? How do you explain the works of Mother Theresa? How do you explain it when modern medicine says a person will die, that there is nothing else that can be done, but a priest comes and the person wakes up?
Yes, I think you *should* consult a real scientist, and ask them what "theory" means in a scentific context, and then get them to explain to you the difference between a theory and a hypothesis, as you clearly haven't the faintest idea what you're blathering about.
A hypothesis is any idiots guess. A theory is the guess of a person with many letters behind their name.:p
For example, the bartender thinks the Patriots will beat the Raiders by 4 points. That is a hypothesis. The bookie says the Pats are getting 6 points, that is a theory.
Now a law, that is if Danny the Butcher talks with Tom Brady and has an understanding.
That my friend, is how the world works.
That is the education at The University of Hard Knocks. Byatch!
"how do they explain George Bush, Beanie Babies and the Crazy Frog?"
Remember that the bell curve is symmetric.:)
Yeah, with whites at one end and blacks on the other.;)
Now flame me away...
As for Bush, he is very smart. It is all an act of being dumb. When he was governor, he did not mistakes when giving speeches. What happened was Bush decided to win the presidency, he needed to win the south. So he became more like them.:p
Seriously, Bush is not a dummy. He went to Yale. If he was so stupid, how did he get into Yale? And why is everyone bitching when a black gets into The University of Michigan School of Law? How is it different?
given the popularity of pseudoscience like "Intelligent Design"
Now that is a loaded statement.
Evolution is nothing but a theory. Ask any REAL biologist (like those with Ph.D.'s or those who work in colleges), and they will admit evolution is a theory. It is not fact. It is not a scientific law.
The cool thing Intelligent Design is we know God made us.
Think about how the world was made. Science has a theory called "Big Bang". It is a theory which states that in the start the mass was so dense, it exploded and everything flew away randomly, making stars and planets, and life.
For any people who know statistics, what is the probability of that happening? How many times would I have to flip a quarter and get heads in a row? 100,000,000,000 times? 100,000,000,000,000 times?
You would have a better chance at taking a watch, hitting it with a hammer until it was broken into 1000 peices, and then putting it in a bag, shaking the bag, and having the watch come back together out of the random movements.
That's exactly why you use personal email for personal things...
I agree!
Now flame me if you must, but what happened to the good old days when the secretary was there to bring the boss a cup of coffee, and take his dry cleaning to the chinese place? You know... two wongs can make it white.
Work is not the place for women to be women. Work is the place for women to kiss ass.
Having said that, if I owned an internet porn company, I would try and hire the two of them for some hot firey angry lesbian action. Give them both a whiffle ball bat, tell them there are no rules- hit as hard as you can. because the looser is getting the wiffle ball bat in her ass. Give the winner $1000 and pay their rent for a month while they find a new job. Pay the loser nothing and put her picture on a billboard with the wiffleball bat hanging out her snatch.
Well said! I mean, what the hell did people ever figure out by doing science? It was because of religion and faith in God that humans eradicated smallpox, put men in space, invented the internet, figured out how to splice genes, and built giant telescopes to peer back into the dawn of time! Oh, wait, that was science that did all that shit, wasn't it?
I would rather trust God.
What good is the Internet? It lets you shop from Amazon, and not the local mom and pop store in your neighborhood? Or is it because you can get kiddie porn from half way around the world, where it is not illegal?
As for smallpox, I don't know why we have it. Maybe it is like AIDS, and we need to get rid of a certain kind of immoral people? AIDS is only passed on between fags and drug users. The innocent victims are the wives who get infected by the husbands who visit prostitues, and the poor people who get bad blood transfusions.
Did you ever think if we did not have fags, we would not be wasting money trying to cure a disease that will cure itself? Maybe we could fight cancer?
And what do we have from "splicing" genes? Genetically engineered corn that the rich will never eat, that is only to be forced on the poor? It causes cancer. Just like the factories and their toxic gas. It is like cigarettes, when Malbro said they are safe. Where is science then, in the 60's and 70's?
Let me guess, the science changes? One study will negate another.
It's too bad god didn't give you good grammar or spelling abilties.
Yes, because those are the most important abilities to have.
200 years ago, most of the USA was filled with people who could not read or write. Yet, they formed a country with great prosperity. And they believed in GOD. They thanked him for what they had.
You can take your narcissism and shove it!
BTW, where I might not run a spell checker and stuff gets by, I admit it. But how do you run your brain? You are not well read, are you?
I haven't heard about anything like this before and will likely remain skeptical until a link is provided.
A link is all it will take? HOLY SHIT! What if a PhD teaching your Chem 100 class told you it would be on the next test? Then it must be true.
Dude, in the past 10 years, I have heard a 10th, 11th and 12th planet announced in our solar system. I then heard them declare the "new" planets as dustballs. I think the current "merde de jour" is there is a planet. btw, for all that don't know french, "merde de jour" means soup of the day. It's just an expression. Use it whenever you want.;)
Look, here is the TRUTH. Humans will never understand basic physics or chemistry. We can measure. THAT IS ALL WE CAN DO. And we can't even measure everything. Want proof? Measure the speed of an electron and where it is at THE SAME TIME. Or explain to me how gravity works. WHY?? And give me something more than two items attract each other. That is so gay!
We are Gods creatures. He made the world. We can not understand his work in science. But we can understand it in art. In Humanity. In Compassion. In Literature.
Electric Universe News is reporting that scientists claim to have proof that 'supernovae are catastrophic electrical discharges focused on a star' and not the result of giant stars undergoing gravitational collapse and subsequent explosion
Did you ever notice how science changes its anwsers so damn often. But the Bible stays the same.
When I went to college, they taught some stuff in biology, chemsitry, and physics that is wrong. They graded our papers, and gave us low marks. Why? They did it to everyone. In my Chem class, and "A" was a 38.7%. That is about 4 out of 10 points on a test. The curve was fucking rediculous.
God said they would persecute us. And they are doing that.
I would rather take comfort with God than with the here_today, gone_tomorrow of science.
Why not live in a happy moral time, with good families, and worthwhile occupations. Why live in horrible times, working for in the factory of an atheist for minimum wage?
THINK ABOUT IT. WHAT IS DIFFERENT TODAY? NO PENSIONS AT JOBS. NO GOOD JOBS. And there is less of God too. He is letting us know.
A friend of mine sold stuff on ebay. He had a perfect record, nobody complained.
One day, he went to his paypal account, and it was locked.
My friend did not worry, he did nothing wrong. So he sent an email to paypal asking for details. He got back something saying "his account was being reviewed". My friend asked when the funds would be released, and paypal did not respond.
6 weeks passed, and paypal kept his money frozen.
Finally, my friend went to get a lawyer, and had him send a letter to paypal. His funds were released the next week.
He sent another email and letter to paypal asking what caused the account to be frozen in the begenning. He got no response. To this day, he does not know why paypal did what they did.
It is nice to have a company to protect people. But the company should say why they take actions. If paypal believed my friend did something wrong, why not tell him, and ask for a response? Why keep everything secret, and keep the account frozen??
The court is more powerful that any branch. They are the only one that is not checked. How can Congress or the President strike down a court order?
Reading the constitution may help you answer that question. The President can't do anything. However, congress can amend the constitution (as long as the states ratify it) to make their laws constitutional.
And who says the court will read the new amendment in any specific way?
The Bill of Rights have been around for 200 years, yet each generation has a court that reads them differently.
I'll give you an example. The right to "free speech". In the 1920's, the court said any communists could be jailed. If you had any communist literature, you would go to prision, for an indefinite period of time. In the 1960's, the courts said No More! Police need a search warrent, and PROBABLE cause. In 1955, you had no merand rights, in 1975 you did. Today, there are people in prisions around the world that the USA sent there because of the war on Terror. Some have been released after 2 years of torture.
What will the next court rule?
The thing most do not understand is the court is people. It is not laws. It is people. They decide. They have opinions. How else can you explain abortion? The laws have changes so much in the past 100 years. And 100 years is not that much time to pass to have laws change so much. What if the next justice says life starts at conception? Or does it start in the second trimester as current law says?
I will give you one last example. His name is Lois Mata. I did a report on him a decade ago. He was a retarted guy with an IQ of 60. He was sentanced to death by the courts, for killing a person. Louis could not tell you what he ate for lunch the day before. But he was killed. One year before being executed, the prosecutor came forward and said he could not take it, that he did wrong, and that Louis really had no idea of what he did. The court of the day denied his appeal to live. A court today might do different. Is it cruel to kill the retarded?
If Congress passes some law tomorrow that the court wanted to strike down, they could do absolutley nothing about it until a case is brought before them.
There are enough groups on both sides of every issue that it will be taken to the court.
Abortion? It was not decided by congress, it was decided by the courts.
Guantanamo? President Bush ordered prisioners there, but the courts will decide if they stay, if they have lawyers, and what happens to them.
Clinton impeahced? It was Rehnquist who was presiding judge in the Senate.
How does a court that can only CANCEL actions taken by other branches of the government wield "more power" than the president
They can do far more than "cancel" actions. Look at Massachuset. They legislature took no action on gays. Yet the courts ruled that gas had special rights. Not only that, but the court told businesses, no matter what religion of the leadership, they must pay money to gays to support the "spouse". That is even if the business is private, and the owners are christian and want to give christian values to the world, to make the place better.
I'll give you one good thing the court did. When states decided they can search any house, the court said "not without a warrent". That was 40 years ago. Today, we are having the same problems with the patriot act. What will the court do?
By design the courts are to be equals with the executive branch.
By design, it don't mean shit. By action, it means everything. John Adams is dead, he has been dead a long time. So is his son, the 4th president of the USA. Hamilton was gunned down by the Vice President of the USA. And Jefferson was a sex addict, read his handwritten book on advice for good banding (he did not call it that, but it is filled with tips for being a player in the 1800's and not pissing off Chirst, your Lord and Savior). And I use the word Savior both in the english sense and the french, where it means something different than english.
The court is more powerful that any branch. They are the only one that is not checked. How can Congress or the President strike down a court order? Any group that wants to can look at the constitution and make up a new right, and go to the courts.
I will have to watch. The artice compared it to Ivan Ilyich.
But Tolstoy was no existentialist. Camus was. And they shared nothing in common. War and Peace was about values, about Piere and his friendship to Prince Andreovic over-ridding any impulse he had about Natasha. Camus' Stranger was the opposite, with a priest in his cell asking why did you do it, and getting no anwser.
What is Wikki on? Dope? How can anyone say Tolstoy and Existentialist in the same breath?
My guess is that the reason he didn't retire was that he knew he was going to die, and he didn't want the President and Senate fighting over his position while he was still alive.
If he was alive, he would have had power.
Imagine the following exchange.
Rehnquist : Mr President, I am ready to retire, but I want a replacement who is not too whack.
President:: No!
Rehnquist: Okay, I'll stay in office. Maybe I will live longer than the 4 years you were elected for. Maybe a democrat will win, and replace me with someone who you could never fathom. Or you could compromise.
President: No! Now where is my cake. I was promised cake. With sprinkles.
What sick person would cling to a job? The only reason is the job was so important that if he left, everything would get fucked up. What is going on? Think about it?
If you had cancer, would you tell your boss at Microsoft- "Well, I got bone cancer and the doc gives me 6 months to live, but GOD DAMN IT, I WANT LONGHORN DONE RIGHT!!".
What was Rehnquist sticking around for? What is easier? To die like he did. Or to die at home, in comfort? What was he so worried about?
I hear cries of woe and lamentations from the liberals all over the world tonight!
Compared to the future, he was a liberal.
A liberal wants an equal playing field. A nazi nutcase wants to steal from whites and give to blacks. A right wing nutcase wants to kill all.
A liberal wants to have libraries. A nazi nutcase wants to burn all libraries. A right wing nutcase wants to keep track of what you are reading.
A liberal wants to have healthcare for all. A nazi nutcase does not care, his people have doctors. A right wing nutcase wants to have insurance companies teach doctors to treat paitents like customers-- get them out the door as quick as possible and with the least liability.
GOD bless the USA of 50 years ago. She was magnificent. Today, she is a bitch fighting wars in places we don't want to be, and while she fights there, she is sticking her claws in us too. Video cameras everywhere, libraries with finger print machines. God damn the young for letting this happen.
We can get another Justice to put an end to homosexuals. Lets face it, they are what caused the hurricane. We all KNOW it. They are bloody murderes. We better get someone good or we all might die.
Think about it, under christian rule the USA prospered. It is the God's honest truth. We became something. And now that we let fags fuck each other, what happens? Natural disaster after disaster.
I hope the next Chief Justice is a TRUE chirstain. Someone who will honor GOD. Why are we living like this, with homeless people on the street? Why are we living in a world where gangs can rape white women. In New Orleans, a brutal gang of blacks raped a white nurse, and shot a police officer in the head. WHY? Why, what did they do to you? They were only trying to help.
I hope this country gets back on track. I AM THANKFUL TO GOD THAT CLINTON IS NOT PRESIDENT TO APPOINT A PIECE OF CRAP TO THE BENCH.
Are you stupid. The court has more power than the president. They are the only institution that can VETO both the president and congress. They are a staple of humainty.
Back when the court was something, they are the ones who told the police they must read rights to people. Back then, the courts said that people could not be taken by government for no reason. That government could not look at your reading list and label you as a terrorist because you read Carol Marx. Do you know how many Joe McCarthy's there are in government, and how the courts have stopped them?
Times are changing.
Why did Rehnquist not retire? Why did he stay when he was sick? Was he this sick? Why did Vincent Foster kill himself in a public park?
This is funny, I would have done the same thing. They cannot counter sue because they had no business.
If someone steals what I am saying, and puts it on their own site, then sues me when i change what I say, screw them!
That is not what happened. It is more like if you have a website and post words on that website. I read your website, and put a link on my page to your page.
Fuddruckers can sue. They have damages. This guy went out of his way to cause as much harm to Fuddruckers as he could. This guy knew about the "theft" and he did nothing, he waited for a three day weekend to show how smart he was, how he out-smarted a big company. Boo-hoo.
There is a principle of law in the USA. Once you become aware that someone is damaging you, you have a right to tell them to stop. If you don't tell them to stop, tough crap on your part. It is no different than if there is a small river or creek on your property. It is near my property line too, but the water is on your property. One day you look out the window and see me with a pump, pumping water from the river on my garden. Instead of telling me to stop, you wait a few months, until I start getting fruit, then you put poison in the watter supply, to kill off everything.
You have an obligation to stop whatever harm is happening as soon as you discover the wrong doing. Otherwise you are consenting. You know the action the other person is doing, and yet you don't try to stop it, you don't ask them to stop.
A good example would be if the cable company found out you were stealing one of the premium channels. Instead of cutting off your service, the cable company lets you keep getting service, for 2 years. Then they slap you with a $500 bill for the channel. The cable company had a duty to say "no" the moment they discovered the theft.
from the idiots website: But did I do this right away? No! I waited until the Friday evening before a three-day weekend. So either it'll be up for three days, or someone is going to have to go in during their vacation to fix it.
You couldn't email them to find out what was going on? You knew they were "stealing" your game, but you waited? So between the time you knew they were "stealing" and the time you got even, did you give them permission to use your game?
Yeah, that's right. They didn't even bother to download the game and host it themselves. They linked to my game, using my game and my bandwidth to promote their restaurant.
Let me get this right. They put a link on their website. They did not steal your code. They did not pass off the game as their own. I see at the bottom of the game, in BIG LETTERS your email of games@briggster.com. And I see the URL of your webiste.
Since when is putting up a link stealing. I can understand if they put an image on your website and hotlink it, that is theft. But since when is linking the same as stealing?
So, if I put a link on my website to The Onion, am I stealing from The Onion every time someone who visits my page then goes to visit theirs? Because I see you link to a ton of stuff from your blog. Did you get permission from each and every place before you linked to their website?
And how much traffic did Fudruckkers send your way? Looking at that pie graph, it looks like 2% or so. Who is that Saionji.net? They are "stealing" far more from you.
This guy should be arrested. He knew that Fuddruckers was linking. He did nothing about it. He waited until he could hurt Fuddruckers the most.
This is no different than if I see a neighbors kid walking on MY lawn. It is MY property. But I don't tell the kid to stop doing it. Instead I wait the day before the kids family has their summer vacation trip, with paid airline tickets. Then I dig a small hole, and cover it up with leaves. I put nails all over, and cover them up. I put stuff out for the kid to trip on and get cut up. HA! That will teach them, the family will loose their vacation and I'll have shown them.
This guy is a waste of a human life. In days with people suffering because of Katrina, this guy wants to cause a little more suffering. Instead of being proud that someone thought his game was good enough to link to, this guy decided to be a dick. He is no different than the looters who steal 40 pairs of shoes. He had an oppertunity to hurt someone, and he did it. He did not take even one effort to try and resolve his issue in a civilized way. Hell, Fuddruckers is a fairly large company, if he would have complained nicely, they might have paid him for any bandwith they used. Fuddruckers would not want the bad press. But now, Fuddruckers comes out as the victims, and this guy comes out as the dick. There is a moral to this story that kids should learn.
I am going to laugh when the follow-up story comes out on slashdot, about how Fuddruckers sues his ass.
Warrick Dunn was a stud at FSU. I can't remember how many games he had where he rushed for 150 yards and 2 td's, plus the extra 40 or 50 yards recieving per game. He was easily one of the top 5 running backs in college football history.
What is even more amazing is, now that he is in the NFL, he is not like most flash in the pan running backs. He is not demanding to be the most paid player. He even works with others. He is everything a team player should be. Compare him to someone like Maurice Clorette.
Warrick was raised the right way. He cares about other people. It is nice to see when God gives someone so much natural ability, that the person feels blessed and wants to contribute to others.
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This reminds me of a watch a friend had. It did not use batteries. It worked off the movement of his wrist/hand. He said the watch somehow converted kinetic energy into power for the watch. The watch was always fast, we suspected he masturbated too much.
But a backpack that will produce enough juice to run electronics. WOW!!
A while back, a friend went to Isle Royale, a primitive island off northern Michigan. He said a boat went there once a day, in the morning, and once it left, you were stuck on the island. No toilets, no running water, no nothing but wild wolves and a thick forrest. There was no doctor, no police, no anything. But people went there to hike and camp. He said in 6 days of deep hiking, he only ran into 2 other hikers.
Now imagine how portable batteries that charge off movement would change things...
He could take his cell phone with him, and know it would not die. So if work needed to call, they could. He could take his laptop, so for those insomniac nights he could catch up on work.
I dunno, when I go hiking, I take food and water. I don't think I would want 80 pounds of batteries on my back.
The usefullness of batteries would be on a truck. Toss a ton of batteries and generators on a truck, because the extra weight won't mean anything. But for a human, 80 pounds is a lot of extra weight if you also want to carry water.
In the past, when I would install Firefox, and use it, I would get one pop-up from my firewall saying "Firefox wants to access the internet". Now I get two. First it asks "Firefox wants to access the trusted zone". If you click "Yes", it then asks "Firefox wants to access the internet".
Why the change?? What did Firefox do different?
So you say that for anyone to have a discussion of evolution they must use your conventions of naming? I say bullshit.
You will learn more about evolution in the Bible than any PH.D. granting institution can teach you. And you will live a better life.
You should read "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Edwards.
How do you explain miricles? How do you explain the works of Mother Theresa? How do you explain it when modern medicine says a person will die, that there is nothing else that can be done, but a priest comes and the person wakes up?
A hypothesis is any idiots guess. A theory is the guess of a person with many letters behind their name. :p
For example, the bartender thinks the Patriots will beat the Raiders by 4 points. That is a hypothesis. The bookie says the Pats are getting 6 points, that is a theory.
Now a law, that is if Danny the Butcher talks with Tom Brady and has an understanding.
That my friend, is how the world works.
That is the education at The University of Hard Knocks. Byatch!
Remember that the bell curve is symmetric. :)
Yeah, with whites at one end and blacks on the other. ;)
Now flame me away...
As for Bush, he is very smart. It is all an act of being dumb. When he was governor, he did not mistakes when giving speeches. What happened was Bush decided to win the presidency, he needed to win the south. So he became more like them. :p
Seriously, Bush is not a dummy. He went to Yale. If he was so stupid, how did he get into Yale? And why is everyone bitching when a black gets into The University of Michigan School of Law? How is it different?
Now Troll me....
Now that is a loaded statement.
Evolution is nothing but a theory. Ask any REAL biologist (like those with Ph.D.'s or those who work in colleges), and they will admit evolution is a theory. It is not fact. It is not a scientific law.
The cool thing Intelligent Design is we know God made us.
Think about how the world was made. Science has a theory called "Big Bang". It is a theory which states that in the start the mass was so dense, it exploded and everything flew away randomly, making stars and planets, and life.
For any people who know statistics, what is the probability of that happening? How many times would I have to flip a quarter and get heads in a row? 100,000,000,000 times? 100,000,000,000,000 times?
You would have a better chance at taking a watch, hitting it with a hammer until it was broken into 1000 peices, and then putting it in a bag, shaking the bag, and having the watch come back together out of the random movements.
God made life. It is called a soul.
I agree!
Now flame me if you must, but what happened to the good old days when the secretary was there to bring the boss a cup of coffee, and take his dry cleaning to the chinese place? You know... two wongs can make it white.
Work is not the place for women to be women. Work is the place for women to kiss ass.
Having said that, if I owned an internet porn company, I would try and hire the two of them for some hot firey angry lesbian action. Give them both a whiffle ball bat, tell them there are no rules- hit as hard as you can. because the looser is getting the wiffle ball bat in her ass. Give the winner $1000 and pay their rent for a month while they find a new job. Pay the loser nothing and put her picture on a billboard with the wiffleball bat hanging out her snatch.
Welcome to corporate warfare.
I would rather trust God.
What good is the Internet? It lets you shop from Amazon, and not the local mom and pop store in your neighborhood? Or is it because you can get kiddie porn from half way around the world, where it is not illegal?
As for smallpox, I don't know why we have it. Maybe it is like AIDS, and we need to get rid of a certain kind of immoral people? AIDS is only passed on between fags and drug users. The innocent victims are the wives who get infected by the husbands who visit prostitues, and the poor people who get bad blood transfusions.
Did you ever think if we did not have fags, we would not be wasting money trying to cure a disease that will cure itself? Maybe we could fight cancer?
And what do we have from "splicing" genes? Genetically engineered corn that the rich will never eat, that is only to be forced on the poor? It causes cancer. Just like the factories and their toxic gas. It is like cigarettes, when Malbro said they are safe. Where is science then, in the 60's and 70's?
Let me guess, the science changes? One study will negate another.
Geez man.. the Bible is not Science, and never will be.
Peter Pan did not walk the earth. Jesus did. God has given miracles. Mother Theresa is going to be sainted for her works.
Yes, because those are the most important abilities to have.
200 years ago, most of the USA was filled with people who could not read or write. Yet, they formed a country with great prosperity. And they believed in GOD. They thanked him for what they had.
You can take your narcissism and shove it!
BTW, where I might not run a spell checker and stuff gets by, I admit it. But how do you run your brain? You are not well read, are you?
Ahh.. WTF, I am talking to an Anonymous Coward.
A link is all it will take? HOLY SHIT! What if a PhD teaching your Chem 100 class told you it would be on the next test? Then it must be true.
Dude, in the past 10 years, I have heard a 10th, 11th and 12th planet announced in our solar system. I then heard them declare the "new" planets as dustballs. I think the current "merde de jour" is there is a planet. btw, for all that don't know french, "merde de jour" means soup of the day. It's just an expression. Use it whenever you want. ;)
Look, here is the TRUTH. Humans will never understand basic physics or chemistry. We can measure. THAT IS ALL WE CAN DO. And we can't even measure everything. Want proof? Measure the speed of an electron and where it is at THE SAME TIME. Or explain to me how gravity works. WHY?? And give me something more than two items attract each other. That is so gay!
We are Gods creatures. He made the world. We can not understand his work in science. But we can understand it in art. In Humanity. In Compassion. In Literature.
Did you ever notice how science changes its anwsers so damn often. But the Bible stays the same.
When I went to college, they taught some stuff in biology, chemsitry, and physics that is wrong. They graded our papers, and gave us low marks. Why? They did it to everyone. In my Chem class, and "A" was a 38.7%. That is about 4 out of 10 points on a test. The curve was fucking rediculous.
God said they would persecute us. And they are doing that.
I would rather take comfort with God than with the here_today, gone_tomorrow of science.
Why not live in a happy moral time, with good families, and worthwhile occupations. Why live in horrible times, working for in the factory of an atheist for minimum wage?
THINK ABOUT IT. WHAT IS DIFFERENT TODAY? NO PENSIONS AT JOBS. NO GOOD JOBS. And there is less of God too. He is letting us know.
One day, he went to his paypal account, and it was locked.
My friend did not worry, he did nothing wrong. So he sent an email to paypal asking for details. He got back something saying "his account was being reviewed". My friend asked when the funds would be released, and paypal did not respond.
6 weeks passed, and paypal kept his money frozen.
Finally, my friend went to get a lawyer, and had him send a letter to paypal. His funds were released the next week.
He sent another email and letter to paypal asking what caused the account to be frozen in the begenning. He got no response. To this day, he does not know why paypal did what they did.
It is nice to have a company to protect people. But the company should say why they take actions. If paypal believed my friend did something wrong, why not tell him, and ask for a response? Why keep everything secret, and keep the account frozen??
Reading the constitution may help you answer that question. The President can't do anything. However, congress can amend the constitution (as long as the states ratify it) to make their laws constitutional.
And who says the court will read the new amendment in any specific way?
The Bill of Rights have been around for 200 years, yet each generation has a court that reads them differently.
I'll give you an example. The right to "free speech". In the 1920's, the court said any communists could be jailed. If you had any communist literature, you would go to prision, for an indefinite period of time. In the 1960's, the courts said No More! Police need a search warrent, and PROBABLE cause. In 1955, you had no merand rights, in 1975 you did. Today, there are people in prisions around the world that the USA sent there because of the war on Terror. Some have been released after 2 years of torture.
What will the next court rule?
The thing most do not understand is the court is people. It is not laws. It is people. They decide. They have opinions. How else can you explain abortion? The laws have changes so much in the past 100 years. And 100 years is not that much time to pass to have laws change so much. What if the next justice says life starts at conception? Or does it start in the second trimester as current law says?
I will give you one last example. His name is Lois Mata. I did a report on him a decade ago. He was a retarted guy with an IQ of 60. He was sentanced to death by the courts, for killing a person. Louis could not tell you what he ate for lunch the day before. But he was killed. One year before being executed, the prosecutor came forward and said he could not take it, that he did wrong, and that Louis really had no idea of what he did. The court of the day denied his appeal to live. A court today might do different. Is it cruel to kill the retarded?
There are enough groups on both sides of every issue that it will be taken to the court.
Abortion? It was not decided by congress, it was decided by the courts.
Guantanamo? President Bush ordered prisioners there, but the courts will decide if they stay, if they have lawyers, and what happens to them.
Clinton impeahced? It was Rehnquist who was presiding judge in the Senate.
How does a court that can only CANCEL actions taken by other branches of the government wield "more power" than the president
They can do far more than "cancel" actions. Look at Massachuset. They legislature took no action on gays. Yet the courts ruled that gas had special rights. Not only that, but the court told businesses, no matter what religion of the leadership, they must pay money to gays to support the "spouse". That is even if the business is private, and the owners are christian and want to give christian values to the world, to make the place better.
I'll give you one good thing the court did. When states decided they can search any house, the court said "not without a warrent". That was 40 years ago. Today, we are having the same problems with the patriot act. What will the court do?
By design the courts are to be equals with the executive branch.
By design, it don't mean shit. By action, it means everything. John Adams is dead, he has been dead a long time. So is his son, the 4th president of the USA. Hamilton was gunned down by the Vice President of the USA. And Jefferson was a sex addict, read his handwritten book on advice for good banding (he did not call it that, but it is filled with tips for being a player in the 1800's and not pissing off Chirst, your Lord and Savior). And I use the word Savior both in the english sense and the french, where it means something different than english.
The court is more powerful that any branch. They are the only one that is not checked. How can Congress or the President strike down a court order? Any group that wants to can look at the constitution and make up a new right, and go to the courts.
I will have to watch. The artice compared it to Ivan Ilyich.
But Tolstoy was no existentialist. Camus was. And they shared nothing in common. War and Peace was about values, about Piere and his friendship to Prince Andreovic over-ridding any impulse he had about Natasha. Camus' Stranger was the opposite, with a priest in his cell asking why did you do it, and getting no anwser.
What is Wikki on? Dope? How can anyone say Tolstoy and Existentialist in the same breath?
If he was alive, he would have had power.
Imagine the following exchange.
Rehnquist : Mr President, I am ready to retire, but I want a replacement who is not too whack.
President:: No!
Rehnquist: Okay, I'll stay in office. Maybe I will live longer than the 4 years you were elected for. Maybe a democrat will win, and replace me with someone who you could never fathom. Or you could compromise.
President: No! Now where is my cake. I was promised cake. With sprinkles.
What sick person would cling to a job? The only reason is the job was so important that if he left, everything would get fucked up. What is going on? Think about it?
If you had cancer, would you tell your boss at Microsoft- "Well, I got bone cancer and the doc gives me 6 months to live, but GOD DAMN IT, I WANT LONGHORN DONE RIGHT!!".
What was Rehnquist sticking around for? What is easier? To die like he did. Or to die at home, in comfort? What was he so worried about?
Compared to the future, he was a liberal.
A liberal wants an equal playing field. A nazi nutcase wants to steal from whites and give to blacks. A right wing nutcase wants to kill all.
A liberal wants to have libraries. A nazi nutcase wants to burn all libraries. A right wing nutcase wants to keep track of what you are reading.
A liberal wants to have healthcare for all. A nazi nutcase does not care, his people have doctors. A right wing nutcase wants to have insurance companies teach doctors to treat paitents like customers-- get them out the door as quick as possible and with the least liability.
GOD bless the USA of 50 years ago. She was magnificent. Today, she is a bitch fighting wars in places we don't want to be, and while she fights there, she is sticking her claws in us too. Video cameras everywhere, libraries with finger print machines. God damn the young for letting this happen.
Think about it, under christian rule the USA prospered. It is the God's honest truth. We became something. And now that we let fags fuck each other, what happens? Natural disaster after disaster.
I hope the next Chief Justice is a TRUE chirstain. Someone who will honor GOD. Why are we living like this, with homeless people on the street? Why are we living in a world where gangs can rape white women. In New Orleans, a brutal gang of blacks raped a white nurse, and shot a police officer in the head. WHY? Why, what did they do to you? They were only trying to help.
I hope this country gets back on track. I AM THANKFUL TO GOD THAT CLINTON IS NOT PRESIDENT TO APPOINT A PIECE OF CRAP TO THE BENCH.
Are you stupid. The court has more power than the president. They are the only institution that can VETO both the president and congress. They are a staple of humainty.
Back when the court was something, they are the ones who told the police they must read rights to people. Back then, the courts said that people could not be taken by government for no reason. That government could not look at your reading list and label you as a terrorist because you read Carol Marx. Do you know how many Joe McCarthy's there are in government, and how the courts have stopped them?
Times are changing.
Why did Rehnquist not retire? Why did he stay when he was sick? Was he this sick? Why did Vincent Foster kill himself in a public park?
america the beautiful is now america the corporate glutton. what else is left?
If someone steals what I am saying, and puts it on their own site, then sues me when i change what I say, screw them!
That is not what happened. It is more like if you have a website and post words on that website. I read your website, and put a link on my page to your page.
Fuddruckers can sue. They have damages. This guy went out of his way to cause as much harm to Fuddruckers as he could. This guy knew about the "theft" and he did nothing, he waited for a three day weekend to show how smart he was, how he out-smarted a big company. Boo-hoo.
There is a principle of law in the USA. Once you become aware that someone is damaging you, you have a right to tell them to stop. If you don't tell them to stop, tough crap on your part. It is no different than if there is a small river or creek on your property. It is near my property line too, but the water is on your property. One day you look out the window and see me with a pump, pumping water from the river on my garden. Instead of telling me to stop, you wait a few months, until I start getting fruit, then you put poison in the watter supply, to kill off everything.
You have an obligation to stop whatever harm is happening as soon as you discover the wrong doing. Otherwise you are consenting. You know the action the other person is doing, and yet you don't try to stop it, you don't ask them to stop.
A good example would be if the cable company found out you were stealing one of the premium channels. Instead of cutting off your service, the cable company lets you keep getting service, for 2 years. Then they slap you with a $500 bill for the channel. The cable company had a duty to say "no" the moment they discovered the theft.
You couldn't email them to find out what was going on? You knew they were "stealing" your game, but you waited? So between the time you knew they were "stealing" and the time you got even, did you give them permission to use your game?
Yeah, that's right. They didn't even bother to download the game and host it themselves. They linked to my game, using my game and my bandwidth to promote their restaurant.
Let me get this right. They put a link on their website. They did not steal your code. They did not pass off the game as their own. I see at the bottom of the game, in BIG LETTERS your email of games@briggster.com. And I see the URL of your webiste.
Since when is putting up a link stealing. I can understand if they put an image on your website and hotlink it, that is theft. But since when is linking the same as stealing?
So, if I put a link on my website to The Onion, am I stealing from The Onion every time someone who visits my page then goes to visit theirs? Because I see you link to a ton of stuff from your blog. Did you get permission from each and every place before you linked to their website?
And how much traffic did Fudruckkers send your way? Looking at that pie graph, it looks like 2% or so. Who is that Saionji.net? They are "stealing" far more from you.
This guy should be arrested. He knew that Fuddruckers was linking. He did nothing about it. He waited until he could hurt Fuddruckers the most.
This is no different than if I see a neighbors kid walking on MY lawn. It is MY property. But I don't tell the kid to stop doing it. Instead I wait the day before the kids family has their summer vacation trip, with paid airline tickets. Then I dig a small hole, and cover it up with leaves. I put nails all over, and cover them up. I put stuff out for the kid to trip on and get cut up. HA! That will teach them, the family will loose their vacation and I'll have shown them.
This guy is a waste of a human life. In days with people suffering because of Katrina, this guy wants to cause a little more suffering. Instead of being proud that someone thought his game was good enough to link to, this guy decided to be a dick. He is no different than the looters who steal 40 pairs of shoes. He had an oppertunity to hurt someone, and he did it. He did not take even one effort to try and resolve his issue in a civilized way. Hell, Fuddruckers is a fairly large company, if he would have complained nicely, they might have paid him for any bandwith they used. Fuddruckers would not want the bad press. But now, Fuddruckers comes out as the victims, and this guy comes out as the dick. There is a moral to this story that kids should learn.
I am going to laugh when the follow-up story comes out on slashdot, about how Fuddruckers sues his ass.
I thought everyone knew about the Onion.
What is even more amazing is, now that he is in the NFL, he is not like most flash in the pan running backs. He is not demanding to be the most paid player. He even works with others. He is everything a team player should be. Compare him to someone like Maurice Clorette.
Warrick was raised the right way. He cares about other people. It is nice to see when God gives someone so much natural ability, that the person feels blessed and wants to contribute to others.