Let me go ahead and repeat that for you, since nobody ever understands that.
A CONGRESSMAN.
The reason that "the Bush Administration" gets away with this is because you're looking in the wrong place. This is called "the legislature," and it really hasn't got a damn thing to do with who is the President.
Perhaps if you had RTFA, you wouldn't sound like such a twit:
The draft legislation, created by the Bush administration and backed by Rep. Lamar Smith, already enjoys the support of large copyright holders such as the Recording Industry Association of America.
The RIAA is not affiliated with the government in any way, they cannot make anything illegal.
Ahh, the blissful folly of youthful naievete!
They're not a government agency, this is true. But they represent corporations that have billions of dollars in disposable income. If you buy the right congressman, you most certainly can make something illegal.
Ever hear the phrase "the right tool for the right job"? Of course, for driver writing you'll need C and Assembler, but for 95% of corporate programming tasks, it's unneeded. Languages with array bound checking, no direct pointer access, etc. may make for larger, slower executables, but they are *much* more condusive to shorter development cycles.
I also couldn't find a *BSD version on Sun's site. Or AIX, HP-UX, VMS, Irix, etc.
f you're not Solaris, Windows, or Mac OS X, you're not officially blessed by Sun. Three platforms isn't exactly "write once, run anywhere".
Bullshit! AIX, HP-UX, and VMS do have JVM's. They're just supplied and supported by their respective vendors. The technology is licensed by Sun, and has to pass Sun's compatability suite in order to carry the Java label.
Of course they won't. The right wing leadership is silent on China's abysmal human rights record. China uses state *mandated* abortion on factory workers who get pregnant without a permit.
Amazing how the voice of self-rightous moral indignation falls silent as soon as there's a buck to be made...
The con artist is the same, but the scale is increased by an order of magnitude. If you wanted to find your mark through mail, you'd have the expense of postage and print materials. Plus the problem that once the scam is noticed, it's usually easy to trace. If you are a shady car salesman, you only have so many hours in the day to give your spiel. That, and you can usually only scam one person at a time.
Phishing is a whole new level. Crooks have instant access to *millions* of targets. Email is free. Bandwidth is cheap (or free, if you have a zombie mailing for you. And it's easy to register at offshore hosting providers, making the odds of ever being prosecuted minimal.
Take this with the knowledge that most people believe *everything* they hear on the internet if the source sounds authentic enough. I can't count the number 'urban legend' emails I get every week from friends that have been forwarded dozens of times to hundreds of people.
I fear that we have entered an "International Golden age of Fraud". It isn't going to go away.
Exactly! The love dialog was contrived, painful, and embarassing. Which, is arguably exactly what an obsessed 20 year old virgin would sound like when the object of his lust is within his reach.
As someone else said, I don't think you can speak for all of us--plenty of Star Wars geeks think that the prequels suck... usually it's those of us who have an ounce of objectivity. This isn't just rose-colored glasses.
With all respect, "Bah!" Objectivity has baptkus to do with it. I claim that all the GLRMC haters out there suffer from "Boba Fett Underoos Syndrome". You all have a preconception of the original films from when you were young, impressionable, easily impressed, and loved playing in your Boba Fett Underoos. You had over 20 years to fill in your own backstory of Anakin, the Jedi Order, and the Old Republic. When Lucas gets around to finishing the story, the characters and plot are *nothing* like you imagined. You simultaniously cry "foul" and collectively develop false memories of "Uncle George" raping you in your sleep. How *dare* he mess with the story you've been brewing in your head since childhood!!
In all honesty, It took me a *long* time to accept Phantom Menace. So many of the concepts and ideas introduced were nothing like what I had imagined. "Virgin Birth? Distant, uncaring Jedi? Trade Federation? midi-fucking-chlorians??? What the hell?" But as the pieces fell into place, and I gave up my 20 year preconceptions of the story, I came to understand what the story was trying to say, and the direction Lucas was taking with it. And when all was said and done, the dichotomy of Anakin's fall, the irony of his 'birth', and the subtle political manipulations of the Sith *more* than made up for a few awkward moments concerning Anakin's dislike for sand.
In the original trilogy, I think that Luke was sometimes badly acted and the Ewoks were over the top (and a rather transparent marketing ploy.) But this simply doesn't compare to the horrible new characters from the prequels and their insipid dialog...
LOL! You bitch about the characters of the prequels but forgive the Ewoks? Come on. Licensing whoring aside, how can you reconcile the fact that the best legion of the most powerful Empire the galaxy had ever known was done in by a bunch of Teddy Bears with spears!?! Sorry bub, be an OT apologist all you want, but I'll take the Battle of Geonosis, Kashyyyk, or Utupau *any day* over the Battle of Endor.
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It is inconceivable for a writer to rewrite his/her fiction novels
Three words for you, pal. "Bull fucking shit".
If you pick up a copy of "The Hobbit", you will find that there are some glaring differences when compared to the first printing of the story. In the original When Gollum lost the riddle game, he was a good sport - showing Bilbo to the door and letting him keep the Ring. Read that again, slowly, and imagine how pointless the Lord of the Rings would have been if Tolkien *hadn't* revised his story to fit in with his grander vision.
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The characterization sucks. The plot sucks. The dialog sucks. The timing sucks. The motivation sucks.
Actually, the charaterization and plot were far beyond what Lucas did in the Original Trilogy. It's just that whiney, disgruntled "George Lucas Raped My Childhood" fanboys can't reconcile these facts when faced with a minor character like Jar Jar and five minutes of difficult "love" dialog.
I think I speak for the entire Star Wars fan community when I say, with all candor, "quit your fucking bitching already".
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Well, we have the Bush & Dick administration now...
The java compiler is written mostly (if not entirely) in Java.
You can turn in your lightsaber at the door, please.
But without the guns.
And without the boobs. Or the good looks. Or the legs. Or the mansion, money and international intrigue. Or the cool butler.
But at least you still have a great ass, right? :)
Does the guy in the middle ever say anything?
It was introduced by a Congressman.
Let me go ahead and repeat that for you, since nobody ever understands that.
A CONGRESSMAN.
The reason that "the Bush Administration" gets away with this is because you're looking in the wrong place. This is called "the legislature," and it really hasn't got a damn thing to do with who is the President.
Perhaps if you had RTFA, you wouldn't sound like such a twit:
X-Wing Alliance is still fun on multiplayer...
The Daktaklakpak Vivisector explodes in an orgy of Mechanical Rapture!
A:The Captain's Log
Ahh, the blissful folly of youthful naievete!
They're not a government agency, this is true. But they represent corporations that have billions of dollars in disposable income. If you buy the right congressman, you most certainly can make something illegal.
Ever hear the phrase "the right tool for the right job"? Of course, for driver writing you'll need C and Assembler, but for 95% of corporate programming tasks, it's unneeded. Languages with array bound checking, no direct pointer access, etc. may make for larger, slower executables, but they are *much* more condusive to shorter development cycles.
f you're not Solaris, Windows, or Mac OS X, you're not officially blessed by Sun. Three platforms isn't exactly "write once, run anywhere".
Bullshit! AIX, HP-UX, and VMS do have JVM's. They're just supplied and supported by their respective vendors. The technology is licensed by Sun, and has to pass Sun's compatability suite in order to carry the Java label.
Well. You *do* remember what happened after Duke told that alien, "I'm gonna rip off your head & shit down your throat", don't you?
Of course they won't. The right wing leadership is silent on China's abysmal human rights record. China uses state *mandated* abortion on factory workers who get pregnant without a permit. Amazing how the voice of self-rightous moral indignation falls silent as soon as there's a buck to be made...
Youuusa tinkin' Meesa gonna' dieeeeee?
Phishing is a whole new level. Crooks have instant access to *millions* of targets. Email is free. Bandwidth is cheap (or free, if you have a zombie mailing for you. And it's easy to register at offshore hosting providers, making the odds of ever being prosecuted minimal.
Take this with the knowledge that most people believe *everything* they hear on the internet if the source sounds authentic enough. I can't count the number 'urban legend' emails I get every week from friends that have been forwarded dozens of times to hundreds of people.
I fear that we have entered an "International Golden age of Fraud". It isn't going to go away.
<anakin>Well, if it works.</anakin>
Exactly! The love dialog was contrived, painful, and embarassing. Which, is arguably exactly what an obsessed 20 year old virgin would sound like when the object of his lust is within his reach.
With all respect, "Bah!" Objectivity has baptkus to do with it. I claim that all the GLRMC haters out there suffer from "Boba Fett Underoos Syndrome". You all have a preconception of the original films from when you were young, impressionable, easily impressed, and loved playing in your Boba Fett Underoos. You had over 20 years to fill in your own backstory of Anakin, the Jedi Order, and the Old Republic. When Lucas gets around to finishing the story, the characters and plot are *nothing* like you imagined. You simultaniously cry "foul" and collectively develop false memories of "Uncle George" raping you in your sleep. How *dare* he mess with the story you've been brewing in your head since childhood!!
In all honesty, It took me a *long* time to accept Phantom Menace. So many of the concepts and ideas introduced were nothing like what I had imagined. "Virgin Birth? Distant, uncaring Jedi? Trade Federation? midi-fucking-chlorians??? What the hell?" But as the pieces fell into place, and I gave up my 20 year preconceptions of the story, I came to understand what the story was trying to say, and the direction Lucas was taking with it. And when all was said and done, the dichotomy of Anakin's fall, the irony of his 'birth', and the subtle political manipulations of the Sith *more* than made up for a few awkward moments concerning Anakin's dislike for sand.
In the original trilogy, I think that Luke was sometimes badly acted and the Ewoks were over the top (and a rather transparent marketing ploy.) But this simply doesn't compare to the horrible new characters from the prequels and their insipid dialog...
LOL! You bitch about the characters of the prequels but forgive the Ewoks? Come on. Licensing whoring aside, how can you reconcile the fact that the best legion of the most powerful Empire the galaxy had ever known was done in by a bunch of Teddy Bears with spears!?! Sorry bub, be an OT apologist all you want, but I'll take the Battle of Geonosis, Kashyyyk, or Utupau *any day* over the Battle of Endor.
Three words for you, pal. "Bull fucking shit".
If you pick up a copy of "The Hobbit", you will find that there are some glaring differences when compared to the first printing of the story. In the original When Gollum lost the riddle game, he was a good sport - showing Bilbo to the door and letting him keep the Ring . Read that again, slowly, and imagine how pointless the Lord of the Rings would have been if Tolkien *hadn't* revised his story to fit in with his grander vision.
Actually, the charaterization and plot were far beyond what Lucas did in the Original Trilogy. It's just that whiney, disgruntled "George Lucas Raped My Childhood" fanboys can't reconcile these facts when faced with a minor character like Jar Jar and five minutes of difficult "love" dialog.
I think I speak for the entire Star Wars fan community when I say, with all candor, "quit your fucking bitching already".
...when Gandalf whapped Denethor with his staff.
Ahh, so you've used Windows ME too, then.
They do dabble in software, too.
You've obviously never played Battlefront, Knights of the Old Republic, or the Jedi Knight series.