Except it didn't cause either, not in me at least.
Nor did it back in the old days when I used my Elsa Revelator glasses to play games in 'true 3D' on my PC (before NVIDIA bought them and before the card that I bought for them died).
And perhaps more importantly, even if it does at the start, your eyes learn to compensate.
Yes, like most sci-fi & related genre shows, it's first season stunk as they tried to find their footing, but once the second season kicked in and they started actually developing the plot it's been a fairly fun and enjoyable show. I'll be sad to see it go, but Fox, like Uwe Boll, seems to thrive on the failure of its shows rather than their success.
It kind of looks like the people who could really benefit from an IPO would already have been excluded. Just like always. So, I'm less inclined to be upset about this.
Given Facebook has all the hallmarks of being the next AOL and Mark Zuckerberg the next Steve case, I have a feeling that GS is doing the US a favor.
Nothing Assange has done has been any different than any other journalist has done exposing the flaws of the US government. That isn't spying and 'other damages' implies that there was an international law concerning giving governments a pie to the face.
And if the next victim is 'someone or something that I support' and it turns out that they are doing something that I really DON'T support, then I'll be the first one in line to shake is fucking hand for helping me avoid giving my money for causes that I may consider an anathema to me.
Despite the fact that several lawmakers are attempting to find something, anything, that they can charge him with solely for the purpose of punishing him for these leaks.
See also: The treatment of PFC Manning, the subpoena by the federal government severed to Twitter for the records of a Swedish legislator known to work with Wikileaks.
Sadly, as much as I had hope that Obama's administration would be beginning mark of when the government would at least play by the rules publicly, it looks as if the folk running the show now are just as willing to subvert the letter of the law to whatever means they consider expedient rather than go the more righteous route of doing it the hard way without cheating.
Options 1 and 2 are only strong because people like you like to believe they are the only option and thus support them. Thus creating a false dilemma.
At the very worse, since we are talking about being dumbshits who are attempting to co-op a people's right to govern themselves for our own enrichment, we could find someone who wasn't a complete asshole and back them. Guess what, I bet the US's 3rd option would be more than strong enough to stand up to one or two.
Given the choice between a brutal dictator or a corrupt politician who could just as easily become a brutal dictator were he in power, frankly I would choose to keep looking for the third option and stop creating a false dilemma.
People like to pretend that using others is justifiable if the people being used are at least marginally better than where they started. Unfortunately, that's simply not true, especially since if the people being used weren't being manipulated to support another crappy situation that is only 'better' in respect to looking at the rock bottom, they might just have been willing to fight longer and harder for a solution more beneficial to themselves.
On the other hand we might prefer that a thermonuclear warhead mounted on a cruise missile heading for China be able to receive the recall signal all the way up to the point where it goes 'boom', you know just in case Joshua is acting up again.
Unless Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington are on board, in which case, it wouldn't matter either way, they'll get into an alpha male fight and someone will have to hold the leash for Gene's Poodle while the brass chews Denzel out.
Yes, it gives me warm fuzzies to know that one of the primary programmers for the game is a/.er
Though I was a bit sad when I read up and found out that Sundog was the reason he quit programming for four years after he finished it, due to burnout.
Sundog was back when I had only ever had a handful of games as staples to play, and most of them were FTL games.
Hehe nope, never did. They were my bane too, since after I found the 'developer' easter egg where you'd be approached by one of the programmers and given $200,000 if you said you liked the game I was convinced that there were other hidden items and that getting the jackpot would result in something 'awesome'.
One thing to remember is what day and time the incident occurred: near midnight on New Year's Eve. Plenty of people mark the beginning of the new year with fireworks, and it's possible these celebrations caused this nasty accident. Arkansas Game and Fish Commission spokesman Keith Stephens says the commission currently favors this theory, as fireworks that were shot off in just the right area near the birds when they were roosting could have scared them, creating a traumatic stress event.
Why are thousands of dead birds suddenly falling from the sky?
Obviously, birds don't usually fall from the sky when fireworks are shot off, so what would have happened here? We do know that birds tend to be more highly concentrated in rural areas, meaning one big fireworks blast in just the wrong area would have terrified thousands of birds all at once.
This would have happened at night, when birds are roosting on the ground - and if this did indeed happen when the birds were asleep, experts say the trauma would have been enough to kill them, as the terrified birds frantically flew into each other in the heavy night fog. Witnesses have since come forward to say they saw a person setting off industrial-grade fireworks near the roosting area, which would seem to back up that theory.
As a youth, I used to play an old game called Sundog on my Atari ST. It was a space faring/trading game where part of your objective was to buy/steal/find the resources a new religious colony demanded.
One of the things I discovered were a series of glitches in the game that allowed me to skip the heavy trading of the game and make good money buying and selling 'inventory' items instead.
From memory, a bug in the shopkeeper interactions allowed me to buy the second item in the inventory for the price of the first item. In weapon stores, the first item was always a cheap healing dodad, while the second item was always a fairly hefty priced force shield.
So it started off with me getting cheap 'armor'. On top of this the shields had a set number of hits on them, and the 'glitched' copies, being uninitialized, effectively got an extra 'hit' out of them as the first hit set their 'remaining charges' to the max amount.
At first I used that and the fact that you could carry more than one shield to 'hunt' muggers in the streets, if you wandered around you could get 'lucky' and suddenly find yourself surrounded by a group of people demanding your cash. If you choose to fight and survived, you could loot them for their cash and weapons and then go sell those on the black market in the nearest burger joint. It was 'OK' money, but I then discovered a way to make it even faster.
You see, whenever I attempted to sell one of the 'uninitialized' shields I could never get more than the cost of those cheap health items. And while they sold at 'full' value when once they were initialized, each hit after that first one reduced their value. BUT what I discovered on accident was that you could SHOW the person you were selling to a fully charged 'legit' shield and once you and they were finished on haggling the price, you could give them any shield, regardless of it's remaining charges.
Weapon costs varied planet from planet, so what I'd do is fly to the cheapest planet I could find and fill my ship with 'knockoff' shields, then head for the most expensive planet and reap 100-200% profits.
My point is, I wasn't more than 12 when I found this out, on my own. There wasn't an internet back then, not for the public at least. This sort of glitch doesn't require insider knowledge, just someone with an idea of how these machines work and a willingness/ability to experiment on them.
Of course, that doesn't always pan out. I loved Sundog but the thing I remember most about it was that the novella/backstory for it indicated that the whole reason I was doing all this was to clear my dead uncles debts and even indicated specifically how much I owed. The final stage of the game involved an extremely well hidden city on a planet that was only reachable once you purchased top of the line parts for your ship. When I got stumped on that stage (because I didn't even know there WAS a city to find) I decided the final part of the game must be collecting that sum so I could officially pay off his debts. I'm sure you can imagine my frustration when a year later, after having collected what I think was over five times the amount, I finally bumped into the hidden city while exploring and finished the game in less than 10 min after that.
As some have postulated, it wasn't rednecks with shotguns, it was rednecks with damn big fireworks, big enough to startle/overstress the entire flock, who then proceeded to do what startled birds do, at night, and managed to slam into each other a few times.
Nope. To make it illegal, it has to be deliberate and an attempt to evade discovery (nonlawyer speak)
Spoliation of Evidence Law & Legal Definition
Spoliation of evidence refers to intentional or negligent withholding, hiding, alteration or destruction of evidence relevant to a legal proceeding. Accordingly, it is inferred that a person who destroys such evidence does it with consciousness of guilt. Thus the principle carries along the following consequences:
1. the act is criminal by statute, and may result in fines and incarceration for the parties who engaged in the spoliation; and
2. case law has established that proceedings which might have been altered by the spoliation may be interpreted under a spoliation inference.
That's an amazing post. Except for "And destroying evidence is illegal, every sentence in that post is wrong (assuming you're referring to the USA, at least).
And so is that one, destroying evidence can be perfectly legal, ask any document destruction company. It's destroying evidence that is currently being sought that is illegal.
Perhaps she banned you as an astroturfer because you post anonymous replies in support of the anonymous rants you make, in an effort make it appear as if more than just you hold that opinion.
It was entirely because of the new incoming chairman of Sega, who felt that there was no future in being a 'hardware' company and decided to go all in with their software division. Of course part of that was because they had a pile of debt, five years of running at a loss, and none of the companies they talk to about merging into (including Microsoft) wanted anything to do with them. So it's not as if they didn't have a reason to lose faith in themselves in that regard.
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I wonder if they said the same thing about surround sound, stereo sound, color, mono sound, and moving pictures.
Oh, yes. Yes it was! Hmmm...
Except it didn't cause either, not in me at least.
Nor did it back in the old days when I used my Elsa Revelator glasses to play games in 'true 3D' on my PC (before NVIDIA bought them and before the card that I bought for them died).
And perhaps more importantly, even if it does at the start, your eyes learn to compensate.
Yes, like most sci-fi & related genre shows, it's first season stunk as they tried to find their footing, but once the second season kicked in and they started actually developing the plot it's been a fairly fun and enjoyable show. I'll be sad to see it go, but Fox, like Uwe Boll, seems to thrive on the failure of its shows rather than their success.
Wow. So it's our fault God is a crappy father? damn.
It kind of looks like the people who could really benefit from an IPO would already have been excluded. Just like always. So, I'm less inclined to be upset about this.
Given Facebook has all the hallmarks of being the next AOL and Mark Zuckerberg the next Steve case, I have a feeling that GS is doing the US a favor.
Sure hope not, especially if they are doing it in California. They'll get their nuts cut off and fed to them.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_public_participation
Thank you, I do enjoy a bit of British humor now and then.
Nothing Assange has done has been any different than any other journalist has done exposing the flaws of the US government. That isn't spying and 'other damages' implies that there was an international law concerning giving governments a pie to the face.
And if the next victim is 'someone or something that I support' and it turns out that they are doing something that I really DON'T support, then I'll be the first one in line to shake is fucking hand for helping me avoid giving my money for causes that I may consider an anathema to me.
Despite the fact that several lawmakers are attempting to find something, anything, that they can charge him with solely for the purpose of punishing him for these leaks.
See also: The treatment of PFC Manning, the subpoena by the federal government severed to Twitter for the records of a Swedish legislator known to work with Wikileaks.
Sadly, as much as I had hope that Obama's administration would be beginning mark of when the government would at least play by the rules publicly, it looks as if the folk running the show now are just as willing to subvert the letter of the law to whatever means they consider expedient rather than go the more righteous route of doing it the hard way without cheating.
Options 1 and 2 are only strong because people like you like to believe they are the only option and thus support them. Thus creating a false dilemma.
At the very worse, since we are talking about being dumbshits who are attempting to co-op a people's right to govern themselves for our own enrichment, we could find someone who wasn't a complete asshole and back them. Guess what, I bet the US's 3rd option would be more than strong enough to stand up to one or two.
Mars rocks and Martian casinos. Find those on your vaunted 'Earth'. I dare you.
Given the choice between a brutal dictator or a corrupt politician who could just as easily become a brutal dictator were he in power, frankly I would choose to keep looking for the third option and stop creating a false dilemma.
People like to pretend that using others is justifiable if the people being used are at least marginally better than where they started. Unfortunately, that's simply not true, especially since if the people being used weren't being manipulated to support another crappy situation that is only 'better' in respect to looking at the rock bottom, they might just have been willing to fight longer and harder for a solution more beneficial to themselves.
On the other hand we might prefer that a thermonuclear warhead mounted on a cruise missile heading for China be able to receive the recall signal all the way up to the point where it goes 'boom', you know just in case Joshua is acting up again.
Unless Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington are on board, in which case, it wouldn't matter either way, they'll get into an alpha male fight and someone will have to hold the leash for Gene's Poodle while the brass chews Denzel out.
Yes, it gives me warm fuzzies to know that one of the primary programmers for the game is a /.er
Though I was a bit sad when I read up and found out that Sundog was the reason he quit programming for four years after he finished it, due to burnout.
Sundog was back when I had only ever had a handful of games as staples to play, and most of them were FTL games.
Hehe nope, never did. They were my bane too, since after I found the 'developer' easter egg where you'd be approached by one of the programmers and given $200,000 if you said you liked the game I was convinced that there were other hidden items and that getting the jackpot would result in something 'awesome'.
http://io9.com/5725175/why-are-thousands-of-dead-birds-suddenly-falling-from-the-sky
They say it better than I could:
As a youth, I used to play an old game called Sundog on my Atari ST. It was a space faring/trading game where part of your objective was to buy/steal/find the resources a new religious colony demanded.
One of the things I discovered were a series of glitches in the game that allowed me to skip the heavy trading of the game and make good money buying and selling 'inventory' items instead.
From memory, a bug in the shopkeeper interactions allowed me to buy the second item in the inventory for the price of the first item. In weapon stores, the first item was always a cheap healing dodad, while the second item was always a fairly hefty priced force shield.
So it started off with me getting cheap 'armor'. On top of this the shields had a set number of hits on them, and the 'glitched' copies, being uninitialized, effectively got an extra 'hit' out of them as the first hit set their 'remaining charges' to the max amount.
At first I used that and the fact that you could carry more than one shield to 'hunt' muggers in the streets, if you wandered around you could get 'lucky' and suddenly find yourself surrounded by a group of people demanding your cash. If you choose to fight and survived, you could loot them for their cash and weapons and then go sell those on the black market in the nearest burger joint. It was 'OK' money, but I then discovered a way to make it even faster.
You see, whenever I attempted to sell one of the 'uninitialized' shields I could never get more than the cost of those cheap health items. And while they sold at 'full' value when once they were initialized, each hit after that first one reduced their value. BUT what I discovered on accident was that you could SHOW the person you were selling to a fully charged 'legit' shield and once you and they were finished on haggling the price, you could give them any shield, regardless of it's remaining charges.
Weapon costs varied planet from planet, so what I'd do is fly to the cheapest planet I could find and fill my ship with 'knockoff' shields, then head for the most expensive planet and reap 100-200% profits.
My point is, I wasn't more than 12 when I found this out, on my own. There wasn't an internet back then, not for the public at least. This sort of glitch doesn't require insider knowledge, just someone with an idea of how these machines work and a willingness/ability to experiment on them.
Of course, that doesn't always pan out. I loved Sundog but the thing I remember most about it was that the novella/backstory for it indicated that the whole reason I was doing all this was to clear my dead uncles debts and even indicated specifically how much I owed. The final stage of the game involved an extremely well hidden city on a planet that was only reachable once you purchased top of the line parts for your ship. When I got stumped on that stage (because I didn't even know there WAS a city to find) I decided the final part of the game must be collecting that sum so I could officially pay off his debts. I'm sure you can imagine my frustration when a year later, after having collected what I think was over five times the amount, I finally bumped into the hidden city while exploring and finished the game in less than 10 min after that.
As some have postulated, it wasn't rednecks with shotguns, it was rednecks with damn big fireworks, big enough to startle/overstress the entire flock, who then proceeded to do what startled birds do, at night, and managed to slam into each other a few times.
Nope. To make it illegal, it has to be deliberate and an attempt to evade discovery (nonlawyer speak)
- http://definitions.uslegal.com/s/spoliation-of-evidence/
That's an amazing post. Except for "And destroying evidence is illegal, every sentence in that post is wrong (assuming you're referring to the USA, at least).
And so is that one, destroying evidence can be perfectly legal, ask any document destruction company. It's destroying evidence that is currently being sought that is illegal.
"So what you are saying is that possession of this... Ubun2? CD is positive proof of an attempt to research how to kill people?"
Perhaps she banned you as an astroturfer because you post anonymous replies in support of the anonymous rants you make, in an effort make it appear as if more than just you hold that opinion.
Besides, we haven't lost contact with the USS Flagg.
It was entirely because of the new incoming chairman of Sega, who felt that there was no future in being a 'hardware' company and decided to go all in with their software division. Of course part of that was because they had a pile of debt, five years of running at a loss, and none of the companies they talk to about merging into (including Microsoft) wanted anything to do with them. So it's not as if they didn't have a reason to lose faith in themselves in that regard.