Sure you could deliver a package anywhere in the world in a couple of hours, but it will take a few more hours to a few days to clear customs anyway.
(I had a _very_ bad experience shipping a friend's dog to Turkey recently... they decided to classify a spayed pet coon hound as an "exotic breeding animal" which required a few days of chasing around the proper forms, finding the proper officials to fill them out/stamp them, and of course all the taxes and fees. FIVE days in a box instead of the scheduled two. I suspect the forms were thrown out and the fees pocketed, and the dog officially admitted as a pet. Turkey is ranked 64 on the list of corrupt nations)
Do they require the full sheila-na-gig? Because anyone can dress like a female. And I've seen masculine looking women, who really ought to talk to an endocrinologist, or at least a beautician.
Also, incontrovertible webcam proof can run them afoul of child pornography laws if they don't have extremely robust age verification in place. (Credit card age verification is not enough since kids sometimes "borrow" their parents' credit cards)
"And hardened ceramic teeth that can be polished clean with fine-grit polishing compound"
They already have these: standard gold crowns with a porcelain veneer. They cost about $500-800 each (installed). They are much harder than your real teeth, so much so that to make fine occlusion adjustments, the dentist needs to grind away the enamel on the opposing tooth. And for God's sake, use a toothbrush and toothpaste. Fine grit polishing compound? What about your horrible halitosis? (is there any other kind?)
Sure they are under no obligation to help you unlock your iPhone, but I would bet that if they unrecoverably brick all the unlocked iPhones with the next software push, that they could be looking at a class action lawsuit.
trading is only halted for 1/2 hour upon filing. If they wait until the end of trading anyway, as I suspect they had since google news doesn't show any articles more than 1 hour old, then trading is effectively halted for the weekend.
Nasdaq will have sent a delisting notice, and will delist SCOX next Friday unless SCO requests a review hearing.
If you don't know the answer yet, you can apply for funding. Funding is difficult to procure, however, and next to impossible if the answers are already known.
even better, replace Medison with Apple, then run diff or winmerge on the two files. the lines that are different show how laughable the privacy cut and paste job was-- iTunes, iPhone and the related carrier, for instance, were also replaced with services that are mentioned no where on the website. The rest of the text is verbatim.
"...since they don't own the lines, they can't control the quality of service..."
If you didn't get your DSL through Ameritech, (the only game in town around here,) you were pretty much guaranteed that your DSL service would be down at least 2 weeks straight every other billing period. Nothing your ISP could do about it except stall, hoping Ameritech would fix "the lines." At the very least, I think Ameritech was sandbagging, at worst, and I believe the worst, Ameritech was deliberately shutting off service.
Much as I hate the cable company, I have a cable modem (and a prepaid cell phone) now. Screw Ameritech.
If so, then I (a mac guy) am going to buy a windows PC just so I can play this game... and start a guild whose sole purpose is to hunt down and destroy Tom Bombadil, as often as is necessary.
I have left general chat. I also left trade channel and defense channel, because there are few on topic postings if any. Trade and defense are mixed in with the garbage on general chat. I've never been to LFG channel. Face to face talking and obviously/p or/g are about all that are not full of trash talking. (Or not.)
That takes care of all the profanity, but now I get in-game spam-mail and spam-tells from 'xssdfjbv' or 'jwedexxsd' about gold prices. And if I/ignore, in 5 minutes I get "xlxsow removed from ignore list--no such player" then another spam-tell from 'wossdddd'
Blizzard needs to do 2 things: 1) a "mark as spam" button which automatically logs a complaint and the evidence, and ignores the user for chat, tell, and mail; 2) as another poster put it, if I/ignore a player, I want the option to ignore the WHOLE account, no matter how many alts the guy uses--chat, tell, mail, duel spam, plain talking, yells, and emotes.
what if light sabers did not act like solid, but the attenuated beam "shorted out" for a moment when two beams crossed? Continuing a swing with a dead blade would not damage your opponent (nor he you). Whenever you recover and change the motion the blade can reinstantiate. Not G. Lucas's lightsaber, but easily doable on a Wii.
I would certainly be interested, if I knew that it did not include a kill switch which would allow my government or anyone to destroy it on a whim. linky
I wrote a puzzle solver too, but instead of having it brute force a solution, it stops at an impasse. It is THOSE puzzles that are interesting. Is there something I can learn by studying the pattern? sometimes I figure out a new trick to add to my bag of sudoku solving techniques. Many times I have to resort to a parallel solution, i.e. if a box with two possibilities, if I set it as one or the other and proceed to solve, which boxes then resolve to the same number, or which boxes have the same number eliminated? I am not insightful enough to recognize those patterns yet. If the tool solves the puzzle all the way through, I don't bother solving it myself.
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Dying in a giant fireball? Yeah, I'd ride it too.
Sure you could deliver a package anywhere in the world in a couple of hours, but it will take a few more hours to a few days to clear customs anyway.
(I had a _very_ bad experience shipping a friend's dog to Turkey recently... they decided to classify a spayed pet coon hound as an "exotic breeding animal" which required a few days of chasing around the proper forms, finding the proper officials to fill them out/stamp them, and of course all the taxes and fees. FIVE days in a box instead of the scheduled two. I suspect the forms were thrown out and the fees pocketed, and the dog officially admitted as a pet. Turkey is ranked 64 on the list of corrupt nations)
Do they require the full sheila-na-gig? Because anyone can dress like a female. And I've seen masculine looking women, who really ought to talk to an endocrinologist, or at least a beautician.
Also, incontrovertible webcam proof can run them afoul of child pornography laws if they don't have extremely robust age verification in place. (Credit card age verification is not enough since kids sometimes "borrow" their parents' credit cards)
A dragon flight control scheme worse than Lair
"And hardened ceramic teeth that can be polished clean with fine-grit polishing compound"
They already have these: standard gold crowns with a porcelain veneer. They cost about $500-800 each (installed). They are much harder than your real teeth, so much so that to make fine occlusion adjustments, the dentist needs to grind away the enamel on the opposing tooth.
And for God's sake, use a toothbrush and toothpaste. Fine grit polishing compound? What about your horrible halitosis? (is there any other kind?)
Also, your inner ear is your accelerometer.
Sure they are under no obligation to help you unlock your iPhone, but I would bet that if they unrecoverably brick all the unlocked iPhones with the next software push, that they could be looking at a class action lawsuit.
You've never heard the Nixon tapes.
trading is only halted for 1/2 hour upon filing. If they wait until the end of trading anyway, as I suspect they had since google news doesn't show any articles more than 1 hour old, then trading is effectively halted for the weekend.
Nasdaq will have sent a delisting notice, and will delist SCOX next Friday unless SCO requests a review hearing.
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Put the crap IN the wallet, then be the Good Samaritan and return the wallet to the fucker.
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If you don't know the answer yet, you can apply for funding. Funding is difficult to procure, however, and next to impossible if the answers are already known.
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Blizzard no longer allows you to roll for epic drops in WoW... duel flags are immediately set for all players clicking "need"
even better, replace Medison with Apple, then run diff or winmerge on the two files. the lines that are different show how laughable the privacy cut and paste job was-- iTunes, iPhone and the related carrier, for instance, were also replaced with services that are mentioned no where on the website. The rest of the text is verbatim.
"...since they don't own the lines, they can't control the quality of service..."
If you didn't get your DSL through Ameritech, (the only game in town around here,) you were pretty much guaranteed that your DSL service would be down at least 2 weeks straight every other billing period. Nothing your ISP could do about it except stall, hoping Ameritech would fix "the lines." At the very least, I think Ameritech was sandbagging, at worst, and I believe the worst, Ameritech was deliberately shutting off service.
Much as I hate the cable company, I have a cable modem (and a prepaid cell phone) now. Screw Ameritech.
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If so, then I (a mac guy) am going to buy a windows PC just so I can play this game... and start a guild whose sole purpose is to hunt down and destroy Tom Bombadil, as often as is necessary.
those weren't "breast rests" in the original mustang, those were "cup holders"
I have left general chat. I also left trade channel and defense channel, because there are few on topic postings if any. Trade and defense are mixed in with the garbage on general chat. I've never been to LFG channel. Face to face talking and obviously /p or /g are about all that are not full of trash talking. (Or not.)
/ignore, in 5 minutes I get "xlxsow removed from ignore list--no such player" then another spam-tell from 'wossdddd'
/ignore a player, I want the option to ignore the WHOLE account, no matter how many alts the guy uses--chat, tell, mail, duel spam, plain talking, yells, and emotes.
That takes care of all the profanity, but now I get in-game spam-mail and spam-tells from 'xssdfjbv' or 'jwedexxsd' about gold prices. And if I
Blizzard needs to do 2 things: 1) a "mark as spam" button which automatically logs a complaint and the evidence, and ignores the user for chat, tell, and mail; 2) as another poster put it, if I
The comment link already doesn't work. It looks like the chocolate manufacturers of america already have this one bought and paid for
...it tastes like chicken. /obligatory
what if light sabers did not act like solid, but the attenuated beam "shorted out" for a moment when two beams crossed? Continuing a swing with a dead blade would not damage your opponent (nor he you). Whenever you recover and change the motion the blade can reinstantiate. Not G. Lucas's lightsaber, but easily doable on a Wii.
"This difference in approach can also be seen in the 18xx games hobby"
I thought you said 18 XXX. I need some more of that!
I would certainly be interested, if I knew that it did not include a kill switch which would allow my government or anyone to destroy it on a whim. linky
I wrote a puzzle solver too, but instead of having it brute force a solution, it stops at an impasse.
It is THOSE puzzles that are interesting. Is there something I can learn by studying the pattern? sometimes I figure out a new trick to add to my bag of sudoku solving techniques. Many times I have to resort to a parallel solution, i.e. if a box with two possibilities, if I set it as one or the other and proceed to solve, which boxes then resolve to the same number, or which boxes have the same number eliminated? I am not insightful enough to recognize those patterns yet.
If the tool solves the puzzle all the way through, I don't bother solving it myself.