Are there non-sovereign countries? Saddam, as the head of his gov't was a legit target under LoAC. Is it kidnapping when cops arrest someone? They are after all taking someone against their will from where they were to where they don't want to be, and holding them there. Perhaps we should have catch and release policy for terrorists. "Nah, we don't mean to stop your plot to kill us, we just want you to be late for the next meeting of your cell."
By it's nature the CIA breaks the laws of other countries, that's what they do. Spying on the USSR was illegal (in the USSR), and we also seek out, try and imprison (and sometimes execute) people who spy against us. i suppose we could just guess what our enemies are doing, or ask them nicely to tell us the capabilities of the weapons they are planning to use to kill us.
i'm not saying that bad things didn't happen, or that people involved in some of these acts are blameless. The use of torture was illegal by OUR laws, and anyone involved should spend the rest of their lives in jail. But don't be so naive or partisan. We've been doing this for 200+ years now, through left and right administrations. Kennedy, who is revered by left and right, doesn't have clean hands. Clinton oversaw all sorts of operations./voted for Gore and Kerry
This idea comes in two forms: One out of ten work days, each employee can take that day to do volunteer work. The other model is 1/10th of a company's output is given away.
Plan A Examples - Joe Bob spends every other Friday teaching inner city kids how to use computers. The Canard Noir cooks for free for 8 hrs every other Tuesday. Everybody at Big Boys Heating and Plumbing does a Habitat for Humanity project every other Monday. Gold Gym in Herndon could run a bi-weekly fitness day camp for fat kids. Lisa Anne saves up his 10% over a few months and then spends two weeks to teach an art class.
Plan B Examples - Every tenth copy of Vista off the line goes to a charity pile for schools, shelters and the poor. Every tenth pint of blood donated is frozen and shipped off to where it is needed.
Allow companies to write off the "losses" and to tout how much good they do.
THE POINT - To move away from MONEY. It is far more meaningful and helpful to have people donate time and sweat. Plus, unlike writing a check to an orphanage, volunteer WORK creates a sense of community and responsibility, fosters a real human connection./worries this might be modded "Funny"
Indiana Jones is trash? If i had points i'd mark this as overrated, because it sure as hell is not insightful. More like pretentious. The post is fairly intelligent, aside from the bit of snobbery at the end.
Opinion != Facts.
Just because something isn't subtle, deep and symbolic doesn't mean it lacks value. And just because you are too stuck up to find value in the IJ series doesn't mean that others don't find it.
Does Kubuntu run Planetside, WoW, Neverwinter Nights 2, MS Office and my various peripherals and cards without requiring me to learn how to use linux command line or compiling etc? If it does, let me know and i'll switch today.
You got your fantasy RP in my cyberpunk RP!/didn't like Shadowrun//loved 2020
Can we coin the term Psionics for this purpose? D&D Psionics refer to Psychogenics. Avionics are electronics pertaining to flight, so this should be Psionics.
Have servers where players cannot trade between each other. Not all of the servers, just some percentage. Any items in the game must be found as loot or bought from NPC vendors. On such servers, allow players greater flexibility in what they can buy in the shop and what they can make. No trading, no auction house, no mailing money. This way i can't buy imaginary currency with real currency and have the farmer mail it to me. If i have the item i must have either made it, bought it or found it. There would be one remaining cheat; buy someone else's account.
i would love to play on such a server.
i'd also offer a few servers where characters gain XP, skills and wealth at twice the normal pace so the 12 year olds can bleat about how leet they are in half the time.
"to supply the necessary va-va-voom"
Marylin Monroe had va-va-voom. Cars and spaceships have vroom-vroom. Japanese cars and spaceships have zoom-zoom. Furthermore, All I wanna do is zoom-zoom-zoom-zoom and a boom-boom.
It is a game, not a movie. Games require balance. Movies require drama. The game and the movies cover the same setting, but from there they diverge. Perhaps Mind Tricking low level goons is a free action, tossing a droid might be a low level spell. X uses per day or fatigue checks are a staple of RPGs. It makes the player be selective about when to use a power instead of a mundane ability.
Unless, like, they deliberately leaked this so that we'd *think* they were incompetent. It's like X-Files, man. They cover the truth by leaking small bits of it and making the whistle blowers look crazy.
No-one is pro-abortion. There are some people who are pro-choice. You wouldn't want pro-life people to be called pro-unwanted child raised by a child into poverty who will in turn be likely to face the same problems. Call the groups by what they call themselves.
"Besides, a moderate approach would be to acknowledge that the issue is unclear, or unsolvable, and that it is probably best to error on the side of caution. Even better would be to fund the research of technologies and legislation which can make these issues less relevant."
Calling it unsolvable is unnecessary (and cowardly) when we have a workable system... allow women a choice to control their own bodies and destinies. Planned Parenthood (the concept of having children only deliberately, not the institution) is the best solution, of course, but idealistic. If we lived in a world where everyone was responsible, informed, intelligent, beyond influence of the media and peer pressure and had money, then we have the republican dream nation. Alas, some people are dumb, ignorant, weak willed, impressionable and poor... and fertile. People lacking in money, will and intelligence seem to be amazingly fertile. That's not racist or class-ist, it's an observation of reality.
"For example, let's develop several pre-conception birth control methods which are highly effective. Then require their use in-order to have the privilege of having an abortion. --Like insurance for your car. Responsibility allows the privilege. Plus make this freely available and highly accessible to people of child baring age."
We have those: the pill, vasectomies, IUD etc etc. Requiring proof of their use before allowing "the privilege" assumes that people can afford to use them, are smart enough to use them, to use them correctly etc, can afford them, feel that they can use them, feel that they should use them, feel they can use them without facing pressure from family and friends and lovers. This idea is as bad as abstinence only sex ed. Making contraception and various procedures free and accessible is a great idea... as long as minors can get them without informing their parents. How many fathers are going to sign a consent form for their 15 year old daughter to get on the pill? How many daughters are going to ask? Remember, child bearing age is about 13. In Texas they voted against provide HPV vaccines because it would acknowledge that girls were having sex.
Can Ubuntu run Never Winter Nights 2, WoW, Planetside, MS Office and Oblivion without a great hassle with video drivers? If so, i will switch as soon as i get home. Until then, linux will be something i point at and say "ooo neat... too bad though".
i installed it on my work computer and it was fine until i tried adjusting video settings then it went Tango Uniform.
i prefer the term Psionics. No, not the malappropriation from D&D. Avi-onics are interfaces/instruments/electronics relating to flight. So Psionics would be mechanical/electronics relating to the mind.
"Pirate Bay, one of the flagships of the anti-copyright movement, makes thousands of euros from advertising on its site, while maintaining its anti-establishment "free music" rhetoric."
Pirate Bay's rhetoric is about free music for the users, that they charge advertisers is irrelevant to that issue. They are providing the music for free, which is their stated goal. They aren't anti-profit/capitalist. The have to pull in money to cover the costs of bandwidth. The rest of the article is pretty silly as well, but i'll leave that to the rest of you.
"Fear paralyzes the brain. Progress is born of courage, Fear believes -- courage doubts. Fear falls upon the earth and prays -- courage stands erect and thinks. Fear retreats -- courage advances. Fear is barbarism -- courage is civilization. Fear believes in witchcraft, in devils and in ghosts. Fear is religion courage is science."
Grr. This really grinds my gears. An OS cannot be pre-installed and installed at the same time. Pre means BEFORE, not 'ahead of time'. Here is the test: if the term makes sense with pre replaced with "not yet" and still makes sense, then you're OK to use pre. Preinstall is a FVCKING NOUN, not a verb, it refers to a TIME, the time before the installation was complete. If i begin installing at noon, any time BEFORE noon is pre-install. From noon until the time the install is complete, i am install*ING*. All time after the installation is complete is POST-install(ation). The only time a car is pre-owned is while the dealership has it. Once someone buys it, it is OWNED. When someone sells it, it becomes POST-owned... used. This isn't hard stuff.
Why does this annoy me so? Mostly because i'm killing time at work. Journalists should not make this kind of mistake. People who get paid to write and went to college to write should not screw up parts of speech.
While i'm at it:
Utilize means 'use in a way other than it's intended purpose'. "I utilized a book as a doorstop". Impact != Effect. The IMPACT of a bullet might have the EFFECT of killing you./Going back to work now.
"Sounds like the civvies has a veritable shitload more guns, and likely ammo. That's what protects us from the oppressive gub'mint."
i think we should also give some credit to people within the government and military (from the middle down) with being basically good people. Many of your co-workers and neighbors are veterans or former/current gov't employees. Do they seem the brutal regime type or do they seem to be the people you invite over for barbecue? That, and that we *are* the government and military, they aren't the gov't of some other nation, nor are they selected from one part of the nation (Rome, it's empire) or one race/class. While there may be a few people so zealous that they would fire on their neighbors, the vast majority of our troops wouldn't follow orders to be oppressive. Things are rarely as good or bad as our politicians want us to think.
Preorder means before order, which is to say "not yet order", but the site is allowing orders. This is article is about a pre-release order (order before the product is released). For instance a car's states of ownership are Pre-owned (new), then owned, then post-owned (used). Pre means "before". If you substitute "not yet" where you see pre, and it still makes sense, that is the correct use.
This has been your offtopic grammar snobbery of the day. Feel free to ignore this and continue using impact as a synonym for effect and ending sentences with prepositions.
Yes, it can be a crap shoot. i've been fairly lucky so that may be while i have a positive view. Tonight i'm going to see 28 Weeks later at a place where the seats are reserved (and more expensive) that cuts down on the parents and kids looking to kill time on Friday night. When i went to see Silent Hill it was at a mall theatre on a Friday night. There was a cluster of girls who screamed at every little thing, then some other girls started screaming at random things. That sucked.
My dream movie theatre is this:
Requires Membership - Something to dissuade people from popping in randomly. Maybe has a package where you pay 10$ and get a rewards card, one membership per seat. That little fee might keep out the children.
Has Theme Nights - Couples Only Night, Bring Your Offspring Night, etc.
Enforces the Ratings System - No kids in an R movie unless accompanied by parent (inside the theatre!).
Cancels Membership if Rules are Violated - You open your cell phone, out you go!
No Commercials other than Previews - Previews are commercials, so i won't say "no commercials". But Coke ads before a movie i've PAID to see is bullshit.
Tickets for R Rated Movies are Full Price for Children - Again, to discourage parents from dropping kids off at the movies or to keep teens out.
One Ticket per Butt - Even if that butt will be in your lap, that butt needs a ticket to enter. Leave infants with the sitter. When you have a baby you give up getting to do cool adult stuff, that's the deal.
i would still go to the theatre. For me it is all part of the fun, especially opening nights. i try to get there early so i'm as close to first in line as possible, i try to get a central seat. i enjoy the crowd's reactions. Comedy seems to be funnier when there are other people laughing, the less funny gags seems funnier when the whole room cracks up. Snakes on a Plane on the small screen or even a really awesome home theatre would be just a lame 80's action movie. But with a crowd, it becomes a party with 200 strangers. 300 with a crowd was a blast as well. Last week i saw Grindhouse, after some particularly cool sequence as the noise of the crowd died down, someone said "this is so awesome!" and the crowd went nuts again. That unpredictable bit of spontaneousness was worth something to me. Seeing a big action/effects movie on a home system would not have the same effect. A 10 square foot explosion is bigger and more awesomer than a 10 square inch explosion.
There is value to watching something at home and not every movie is worth the wait in line, the ticket and outrageous concessions. i'll still go to the theatre though. Hell, i'm planning to go a drive in some time this summer. More and more i'm buying tickets in advance and going to theatres where i can reserve a seat, so the line thing isn't much of an issue anymore. You might try going to better theatre. The all digital places rock. Crystal clear image, balanced sound, and usually stadium seating
Alas, i can't post this and mod your post overrated. It's not insightful, it's your opinion, your personal experience.
i'm familiar with the British use of the term. The question is why does it seem to be the only word for arguement/conflict BBC uses? i'll guess that it's just because it a such a short word, rather than lack of synonyms. In the US our journalists seem to have trouble understanding that impact != effect. A large meteor's impact with the Earth would have a devastating effect. Then there is the atrocious use of passive voice. "The Earth was impacted by a meteor". i'll shut up now.
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Not insightful. This is partisan hyperbole.
/voted for Gore and Kerry
Are there non-sovereign countries? Saddam, as the head of his gov't was a legit target under LoAC. Is it kidnapping when cops arrest someone? They are after all taking someone against their will from where they were to where they don't want to be, and holding them there. Perhaps we should have catch and release policy for terrorists. "Nah, we don't mean to stop your plot to kill us, we just want you to be late for the next meeting of your cell."
By it's nature the CIA breaks the laws of other countries, that's what they do. Spying on the USSR was illegal (in the USSR), and we also seek out, try and imprison (and sometimes execute) people who spy against us. i suppose we could just guess what our enemies are doing, or ask them nicely to tell us the capabilities of the weapons they are planning to use to kill us.
i'm not saying that bad things didn't happen, or that people involved in some of these acts are blameless. The use of torture was illegal by OUR laws, and anyone involved should spend the rest of their lives in jail. But don't be so naive or partisan. We've been doing this for 200+ years now, through left and right administrations. Kennedy, who is revered by left and right, doesn't have clean hands. Clinton oversaw all sorts of operations.
This idea comes in two forms: One out of ten work days, each employee can take that day to do volunteer work. The other model is 1/10th of a company's output is given away. Plan A Examples - Joe Bob spends every other Friday teaching inner city kids how to use computers. The Canard Noir cooks for free for 8 hrs every other Tuesday. Everybody at Big Boys Heating and Plumbing does a Habitat for Humanity project every other Monday. Gold Gym in Herndon could run a bi-weekly fitness day camp for fat kids. Lisa Anne saves up his 10% over a few months and then spends two weeks to teach an art class. Plan B Examples - Every tenth copy of Vista off the line goes to a charity pile for schools, shelters and the poor. Every tenth pint of blood donated is frozen and shipped off to where it is needed. Allow companies to write off the "losses" and to tout how much good they do. THE POINT - To move away from MONEY. It is far more meaningful and helpful to have people donate time and sweat. Plus, unlike writing a check to an orphanage, volunteer WORK creates a sense of community and responsibility, fosters a real human connection. /worries this might be modded "Funny"
i'm shocked to see an article make proper use of the word impact!
Indiana Jones is trash? If i had points i'd mark this as overrated, because it sure as hell is not insightful. More like pretentious. The post is fairly intelligent, aside from the bit of snobbery at the end.
Opinion != Facts.
Just because something isn't subtle, deep and symbolic doesn't mean it lacks value. And just because you are too stuck up to find value in the IJ series doesn't mean that others don't find it.
We should call it "effort against drugs". That sounds resolute.
Does Kubuntu run Planetside, WoW, Neverwinter Nights 2, MS Office and my various peripherals and cards without requiring me to learn how to use linux command line or compiling etc? If it does, let me know and i'll switch today.
You got your fantasy RP in my cyberpunk RP! /didn't like Shadowrun //loved 2020
Can we coin the term Psionics for this purpose? D&D Psionics refer to Psychogenics. Avionics are electronics pertaining to flight, so this should be Psionics.
Have servers where players cannot trade between each other. Not all of the servers, just some percentage. Any items in the game must be found as loot or bought from NPC vendors. On such servers, allow players greater flexibility in what they can buy in the shop and what they can make. No trading, no auction house, no mailing money. This way i can't buy imaginary currency with real currency and have the farmer mail it to me. If i have the item i must have either made it, bought it or found it. There would be one remaining cheat; buy someone else's account. i would love to play on such a server. i'd also offer a few servers where characters gain XP, skills and wealth at twice the normal pace so the 12 year olds can bleat about how leet they are in half the time.
"to supply the necessary va-va-voom" Marylin Monroe had va-va-voom. Cars and spaceships have vroom-vroom. Japanese cars and spaceships have zoom-zoom. Furthermore, All I wanna do is zoom-zoom-zoom-zoom and a boom-boom.
How would one anthropomorphise a human? But yes, plants hate to be anthropomorphised.
It is a game, not a movie. Games require balance. Movies require drama. The game and the movies cover the same setting, but from there they diverge. Perhaps Mind Tricking low level goons is a free action, tossing a droid might be a low level spell. X uses per day or fatigue checks are a staple of RPGs. It makes the player be selective about when to use a power instead of a mundane ability.
Dude wait.
Unless, like, they deliberately leaked this so that we'd *think* they were incompetent. It's like X-Files, man. They cover the truth by leaking small bits of it and making the whistle blowers look crazy.
Here, try these brownies, man.
No-one is pro-abortion. There are some people who are pro-choice. You wouldn't want pro-life people to be called pro-unwanted child raised by a child into poverty who will in turn be likely to face the same problems. Call the groups by what they call themselves. "Besides, a moderate approach would be to acknowledge that the issue is unclear, or unsolvable, and that it is probably best to error on the side of caution. Even better would be to fund the research of technologies and legislation which can make these issues less relevant." Calling it unsolvable is unnecessary (and cowardly) when we have a workable system... allow women a choice to control their own bodies and destinies. Planned Parenthood (the concept of having children only deliberately, not the institution) is the best solution, of course, but idealistic. If we lived in a world where everyone was responsible, informed, intelligent, beyond influence of the media and peer pressure and had money, then we have the republican dream nation. Alas, some people are dumb, ignorant, weak willed, impressionable and poor... and fertile. People lacking in money, will and intelligence seem to be amazingly fertile. That's not racist or class-ist, it's an observation of reality. "For example, let's develop several pre-conception birth control methods which are highly effective. Then require their use in-order to have the privilege of having an abortion. --Like insurance for your car. Responsibility allows the privilege. Plus make this freely available and highly accessible to people of child baring age." We have those: the pill, vasectomies, IUD etc etc. Requiring proof of their use before allowing "the privilege" assumes that people can afford to use them, are smart enough to use them, to use them correctly etc, can afford them, feel that they can use them, feel that they should use them, feel they can use them without facing pressure from family and friends and lovers. This idea is as bad as abstinence only sex ed. Making contraception and various procedures free and accessible is a great idea... as long as minors can get them without informing their parents. How many fathers are going to sign a consent form for their 15 year old daughter to get on the pill? How many daughters are going to ask? Remember, child bearing age is about 13. In Texas they voted against provide HPV vaccines because it would acknowledge that girls were having sex.
Can Ubuntu run Never Winter Nights 2, WoW, Planetside, MS Office and Oblivion without a great hassle with video drivers? If so, i will switch as soon as i get home. Until then, linux will be something i point at and say "ooo neat... too bad though". i installed it on my work computer and it was fine until i tried adjusting video settings then it went Tango Uniform.
i prefer the term Psionics. No, not the malappropriation from D&D. Avi-onics are interfaces/instruments/electronics relating to flight. So Psionics would be mechanical/electronics relating to the mind.
"Pirate Bay, one of the flagships of the anti-copyright movement, makes thousands of euros from advertising on its site, while maintaining its anti-establishment "free music" rhetoric."
Pirate Bay's rhetoric is about free music for the users, that they charge advertisers is irrelevant to that issue. They are providing the music for free, which is their stated goal. They aren't anti-profit/capitalist. The have to pull in money to cover the costs of bandwidth. The rest of the article is pretty silly as well, but i'll leave that to the rest of you.
When you /ignore someone, make it ignore the entire account (for all of your and their alts).
"Fear paralyzes the brain. Progress is born of courage, Fear believes -- courage doubts. Fear falls upon the earth and prays -- courage stands erect and thinks. Fear retreats -- courage advances. Fear is barbarism -- courage is civilization. Fear believes in witchcraft, in devils and in ghosts. Fear is religion courage is science."
Ingersoll.
Grr. This really grinds my gears. An OS cannot be pre-installed and installed at the same time. Pre means BEFORE, not 'ahead of time'. Here is the test: if the term makes sense with pre replaced with "not yet" and still makes sense, then you're OK to use pre. Preinstall is a FVCKING NOUN, not a verb, it refers to a TIME, the time before the installation was complete. If i begin installing at noon, any time BEFORE noon is pre-install. From noon until the time the install is complete, i am install*ING*. All time after the installation is complete is POST-install(ation). The only time a car is pre-owned is while the dealership has it. Once someone buys it, it is OWNED. When someone sells it, it becomes POST-owned... used. This isn't hard stuff.
/Going back to work now.
Why does this annoy me so? Mostly because i'm killing time at work. Journalists should not make this kind of mistake. People who get paid to write and went to college to write should not screw up parts of speech.
While i'm at it:
Utilize means 'use in a way other than it's intended purpose'. "I utilized a book as a doorstop".
Impact != Effect. The IMPACT of a bullet might have the EFFECT of killing you.
"Sounds like the civvies has a veritable shitload more guns, and likely ammo. That's what protects us from the oppressive gub'mint."
i think we should also give some credit to people within the government and military (from the middle down) with being basically good people. Many of your co-workers and neighbors are veterans or former/current gov't employees. Do they seem the brutal regime type or do they seem to be the people you invite over for barbecue? That, and that we *are* the government and military, they aren't the gov't of some other nation, nor are they selected from one part of the nation (Rome, it's empire) or one race/class. While there may be a few people so zealous that they would fire on their neighbors, the vast majority of our troops wouldn't follow orders to be oppressive. Things are rarely as good or bad as our politicians want us to think.
Preorder means before order, which is to say "not yet order", but the site is allowing orders. This is article is about a pre-release order (order before the product is released). For instance a car's states of ownership are Pre-owned (new), then owned, then post-owned (used). Pre means "before". If you substitute "not yet" where you see pre, and it still makes sense, that is the correct use.
This has been your offtopic grammar snobbery of the day. Feel free to ignore this and continue using impact as a synonym for effect and ending sentences with prepositions.
Excellent post, sir. Alas my mod points won't count for you. Ignoring the whole account is a brilliant idea.
(Admittedly Offtopic)
Yes, it can be a crap shoot. i've been fairly lucky so that may be while i have a positive view. Tonight i'm going to see 28 Weeks later at a place where the seats are reserved (and more expensive) that cuts down on the parents and kids looking to kill time on Friday night. When i went to see Silent Hill it was at a mall theatre on a Friday night. There was a cluster of girls who screamed at every little thing, then some other girls started screaming at random things. That sucked.
My dream movie theatre is this:
Requires Membership - Something to dissuade people from popping in randomly. Maybe has a package where you pay 10$ and get a rewards card, one membership per seat. That little fee might keep out the children.
Has Theme Nights - Couples Only Night, Bring Your Offspring Night, etc.
Enforces the Ratings System - No kids in an R movie unless accompanied by parent (inside the theatre!).
Cancels Membership if Rules are Violated - You open your cell phone, out you go!
No Commercials other than Previews - Previews are commercials, so i won't say "no commercials". But Coke ads before a movie i've PAID to see is bullshit.
Tickets for R Rated Movies are Full Price for Children - Again, to discourage parents from dropping kids off at the movies or to keep teens out.
One Ticket per Butt - Even if that butt will be in your lap, that butt needs a ticket to enter. Leave infants with the sitter. When you have a baby you give up getting to do cool adult stuff, that's the deal.
Reserved Seating for Some Showings or Screens
i would still go to the theatre. For me it is all part of the fun, especially opening nights. i try to get there early so i'm as close to first in line as possible, i try to get a central seat. i enjoy the crowd's reactions. Comedy seems to be funnier when there are other people laughing, the less funny gags seems funnier when the whole room cracks up. Snakes on a Plane on the small screen or even a really awesome home theatre would be just a lame 80's action movie. But with a crowd, it becomes a party with 200 strangers. 300 with a crowd was a blast as well. Last week i saw Grindhouse, after some particularly cool sequence as the noise of the crowd died down, someone said "this is so awesome!" and the crowd went nuts again. That unpredictable bit of spontaneousness was worth something to me. Seeing a big action/effects movie on a home system would not have the same effect. A 10 square foot explosion is bigger and more awesomer than a 10 square inch explosion. There is value to watching something at home and not every movie is worth the wait in line, the ticket and outrageous concessions. i'll still go to the theatre though. Hell, i'm planning to go a drive in some time this summer. More and more i'm buying tickets in advance and going to theatres where i can reserve a seat, so the line thing isn't much of an issue anymore. You might try going to better theatre. The all digital places rock. Crystal clear image, balanced sound, and usually stadium seating Alas, i can't post this and mod your post overrated. It's not insightful, it's your opinion, your personal experience.
i'm familiar with the British use of the term. The question is why does it seem to be the only word for arguement/conflict BBC uses? i'll guess that it's just because it a such a short word, rather than lack of synonyms. In the US our journalists seem to have trouble understanding that impact != effect. A large meteor's impact with the Earth would have a devastating effect. Then there is the atrocious use of passive voice. "The Earth was impacted by a meteor". i'll shut up now.