Here's the deal as I heard it...
He has the SUV and keeps it at our place until someone in his area (several states large) gets a winning can. They call and activate the GPS. Then my roommate gets the press together and drives to the winner's location within a day or two and "surprises" the winner with the media present.
By the way the SUV sucks. Looks like a mini-van ate a station wagon and it gets crappy mileage but then again don't all SUVs?
This is something that we will never see come to fruition. It is simply another scare tactic by the powers that be (RIAA, Republicans, etc.) to keep people from abusing copyrights. They know they can't possibly prosecute everyone so they prosecute a few people and try to make a big deal out of it in the media to scare people. Blowing up your Pc is meant to scare those who aren't technically savvy enough to realize that there are too many variables out there that make this impracticle. Hackers would disable this thing the day it came out and I would place money on that.
Fresh out of college I was a Y2K debegger for the state government. I would look through endless lines of 30 year old COBOL for 2 digit years. Some of the searches were automated but it meant submitting batch jobs and waiting for results or an error...sometimes for hours. Worst of all we had no internet access in the building. I sure took a lot of "toilet naps" that year.
Hell, at least during the Depression the WPA made useful things... things that are still around today. It was really all busy work from an economic point of view, but from a societal view it had some use. Why can't someone propose that for an economic plan?
This was one of the ideas Dennis Kucinich put forth in his campaign. Many skilled but unemployed Americans could be put to work on useful projects rather than getting checks from the government for doing nothing. Our infrastructure is in major disrepair. The 10 billion or so that is paying for Star Wars could easily be spent on wind farms in the oceans or great lakes. This could help revive the U.S. Steel industry and create jobs in the long term running and maintaining the equipment.
for a MS product. It allows you to share applications so everyone can see and use you die rolling program. You could also share any other D&D applications over it, allowing others to see your character sheet, maps, graphics, NPC generator, etc. Also you get a nice scratch pad to doodle on.
Grit is what made the Star Wars universe unique in its day. It seemed more realistic because the sets reflected some of the seedier elements that populated them.
Personally, sterility or grit doesn't make too much difference for me. I've never seen a game that looked like the real world because 2d/3d graphics haven't replicated the way the human eye works. In a game, everything is always in clear focus no matter how far away or how far into your peripheral vision. In newer games, such as HL2, distant items appear with less detail, but still are in focus. I would be curious to see a graphics engine that can replicate the way a human eye views the world.
This is just another excuse for the hawks to give trillions of our tax dollars to their buddies in the aerospace corporations. A dumptruck worth of gravel launched in orbit would render all such technologies ineffective, not to mention bring down pretty much every satellite floating around up there. Even the nazis were capable of launching a rocket high enough or damn close too it.
Post and share as much public domain and open source info/data as you can get your hands on. Label it as such, so everyone knows that it can be downloaded without legal ramifications. We have yet to fully demostrate the greatest benefit of P2P: All of humanity's creative capacity available for free use at the click of a button. Imagine what Ben Franklin, Einstein, or Mozart could have done with such a resource.
Next time our soldiers should stay home and play Halo against the Iraqi soldiers "over there" and the loser of the tournament has to pay Haliburton and the other defense contractors 87 billions dollars. Then no one dies and the corporations who push for these wars get the money they so desperately need.
What other blaspheme shall be performed upon my childhood memories? Maybe they will remake Planet of the Apes and replace the anti-war moral with craptacular special effects and a WEAK story. Oh wait that already happened. Well, can this really be any worse?
I recently got my girlfriend to play this game. We've been dating three years and I've never been able to interest her in a game before but this one has really got her hooked. The PC version has pretty sharp graphics, some shooting, and some interesting and inventive puzzles. A good appreciation of British humor is a plus, too.
Since this game promotes capitalism, I should be able to open my own virtual sweatshop and pay 8 year-old Indonesian kids to log on at 8 cents an hour to make those virtual Nikes for me to sell at $120 per virtual pair. What a great idea!?!?!Phil Knight is totally going to make me a Vice President of Nike for this one.
In the case of Uday and Qusay, I hope they include over a hundred U.S. troops using heavy weapons including 10 TOW missiles, attempting to kill (not capture and interrogate) 4 people in a house . The best part will be when they storm the building and kill a 14 year old child. I hope they include the large number of murdered and maimed civilians (infants, elderly, etc.)in every one of the military campaigns. Perhaps then people will realize that our escapades abroad do not have the glamour of a Quake style shoot em' up.
Here is a prime example of one of the main problems of free trade. Corporations are free to trade jobs off to some developing nation where wages are minimal but people are not allowed to move to where the jobs are. Perhaps someday we will negotiate trade agreements which guarantee a fair living standard for workers reguardless of where they live.
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I find it funny that intelligent, well-argued debates are now called "leftist".
Here's the deal as I heard it... He has the SUV and keeps it at our place until someone in his area (several states large) gets a winning can. They call and activate the GPS. Then my roommate gets the press together and drives to the winner's location within a day or two and "surprises" the winner with the media present. By the way the SUV sucks. Looks like a mini-van ate a station wagon and it gets crappy mileage but then again don't all SUVs?
is that icon for First Person Shooters supposed to be anyways?
This is something that we will never see come to fruition. It is simply another scare tactic by the powers that be (RIAA, Republicans, etc.) to keep people from abusing copyrights. They know they can't possibly prosecute everyone so they prosecute a few people and try to make a big deal out of it in the media to scare people. Blowing up your Pc is meant to scare those who aren't technically savvy enough to realize that there are too many variables out there that make this impracticle. Hackers would disable this thing the day it came out and I would place money on that.
That sounds pretty good. Too bad there are so many texans there.
Fresh out of college I was a Y2K debegger for the state government. I would look through endless lines of 30 year old COBOL for 2 digit years. Some of the searches were automated but it meant submitting batch jobs and waiting for results or an error...sometimes for hours. Worst of all we had no internet access in the building. I sure took a lot of "toilet naps" that year.
Hell, at least during the Depression the WPA made useful things... things that are still around today. It was really all busy work from an economic point of view, but from a societal view it had some use. Why can't someone propose that for an economic plan? This was one of the ideas Dennis Kucinich put forth in his campaign. Many skilled but unemployed Americans could be put to work on useful projects rather than getting checks from the government for doing nothing. Our infrastructure is in major disrepair. The 10 billion or so that is paying for Star Wars could easily be spent on wind farms in the oceans or great lakes. This could help revive the U.S. Steel industry and create jobs in the long term running and maintaining the equipment.
for a MS product. It allows you to share applications so everyone can see and use you die rolling program. You could also share any other D&D applications over it, allowing others to see your character sheet, maps, graphics, NPC generator, etc. Also you get a nice scratch pad to doodle on.
Grit is what made the Star Wars universe unique in its day. It seemed more realistic because the sets reflected some of the seedier elements that populated them. Personally, sterility or grit doesn't make too much difference for me. I've never seen a game that looked like the real world because 2d/3d graphics haven't replicated the way the human eye works. In a game, everything is always in clear focus no matter how far away or how far into your peripheral vision. In newer games, such as HL2, distant items appear with less detail, but still are in focus. I would be curious to see a graphics engine that can replicate the way a human eye views the world.
This is just another excuse for the hawks to give trillions of our tax dollars to their buddies in the aerospace corporations. A dumptruck worth of gravel launched in orbit would render all such technologies ineffective, not to mention bring down pretty much every satellite floating around up there. Even the nazis were capable of launching a rocket high enough or damn close too it.
I'm waiting for the Burgertime concert.
A loptop that says I have a really small penis
Post and share as much public domain and open source info/data as you can get your hands on. Label it as such, so everyone knows that it can be downloaded without legal ramifications. We have yet to fully demostrate the greatest benefit of P2P: All of humanity's creative capacity available for free use at the click of a button. Imagine what Ben Franklin, Einstein, or Mozart could have done with such a resource.
Now this is a taggin' robot!!!
Check out the GraffitiWriter at Applied Autonomy.
Next time our soldiers should stay home and play Halo against the Iraqi soldiers "over there" and the loser of the tournament has to pay Haliburton and the other defense contractors 87 billions dollars. Then no one dies and the corporations who push for these wars get the money they so desperately need.
Who wants to play a game in which the only way to win is to cheat.
What other blaspheme shall be performed upon my childhood memories? Maybe they will remake Planet of the Apes and replace the anti-war moral with craptacular special effects and a WEAK story. Oh wait that already happened. Well, can this really be any worse?
I recently got my girlfriend to play this game. We've been dating three years and I've never been able to interest her in a game before but this one has really got her hooked. The PC version has pretty sharp graphics, some shooting, and some interesting and inventive puzzles. A good appreciation of British humor is a plus, too.
Dr. David Criswell, director of the University of Houston's Institute for Space Systems Operations
If there is anything I've learned in the last few years, it's NEVER trust a Texan.
Since this game promotes capitalism, I should be able to open my own virtual sweatshop and pay 8 year-old Indonesian kids to log on at 8 cents an hour to make those virtual Nikes for me to sell at $120 per virtual pair. What a great idea!?!?!Phil Knight is totally going to make me a Vice President of Nike for this one.
In the case of Uday and Qusay, I hope they include over a hundred U.S. troops using heavy weapons including 10 TOW missiles, attempting to kill (not capture and interrogate) 4 people in a house . The best part will be when they storm the building and kill a 14 year old child. I hope they include the large number of murdered and maimed civilians (infants, elderly, etc.)in every one of the military campaigns. Perhaps then people will realize that our escapades abroad do not have the glamour of a Quake style shoot em' up.
Here is a prime example of one of the main problems of free trade. Corporations are free to trade jobs off to some developing nation where wages are minimal but people are not allowed to move to where the jobs are. Perhaps someday we will negotiate trade agreements which guarantee a fair living standard for workers reguardless of where they live.