Duke 3d added shooting on the Y plane and not just X and Z
Actually, IIRC, it was Star Wars: Dark Forces that first introduced the three dimensional aiming. I remember an ad that ran in some gaming magazines when it was released. It was a simple screenshot showing your crosshairs aiming at a stormtrooper's head. The tag line went something like: We've added a new dimension to gaming.
Hell, even the Nazi's did a fair job of upholding the Conventions in WWII.
BULLSHIT!!!! My uncle (on a B-17 crew) spent the last months of the war in a German POW camp. It was a full forty years after the war before he was able to talk about what happened on the mission when his plane was shot down. As far as what happened when he was a prisoner: He took that to his grave. He wouldn't even tell his own wife about it. Her only clue to the horrors he had to endure came when he would wake up in the middle of the night, screaming. Ask any US vet who was a POW how much the Nazi's fucking respected the Geneva conventions regarding the treatment of their prisoners before you make such ludicrous & uninformed statements.
I never had a problem with Bayesian false positives until I applied for a mortgage. The legitimate mortgage information emailed to me by my loan agent (only 5 emails - but 5 *very important* emails) wound up in my junk folder.
Actually, there was lots of opposition to Palpatine's plan. Padme herself was the main opponent of the Military Creation Act. The Senate had been in endless debate on weather or not to create a Republic Army. Which kind of begs the question of how, if the Senate was so divided, Palpatine was given emergency powers without as much as a single vote being cast. Maybe that was covered in the novelization. Let's face it, Jar Jar was meant to be hated. His sophomoric antics made him the bane of fanboys, and his actions in the Senate will probably paint him as the scapegoat when everything goes to hell. Mod me down if you like, but I will go to my grave saying GL is a genius for this:p
Sorry, I don't believe it. For both prequels, there was rampant speculation and "insider information" on the titles until the day LucasFilm made an official statement, which immediately proved all the rumors false. IIRC, "Birth of the Empire" was "going to be the title" of EP2, according to some rumors from 3 years ago. When the title is leaked, it will be through offical channels, not some trashy tabloid.
Going to take the plunge...
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I've been using Red Hat for some years now. The company I work for (*Very* MS centric) has a growing partnership with Novell. To avoid being put on a.Net project:) , I'm ramping up on Novell's offerings. So, naturally, a part of that will be learning SuSe. What kind of "gotcha's" can I expect coming from a Gnome/Red Hat background??
Let's not forget That McNamara was also instrumental in defusing the Cuban Missile Crisis. Under a moron like LBJ, I don't think any Defense Sec. could've helped to win Vietnam.
even though it appears from a first glance (pending the Supreme Court's decision) that its unconstitutional to do so?
You're mixing your controversies. The Supreme Court is mulling weather American citizens can be held at gitmo without due process. Their decision will have nothing to do with foreigners.
I agree with your assesment that the public was more up-in-arms about Clinton's hummer than the current quagmire we're in. I also am not a "fan" of Dubbya. I agree with a small percentage of his policies, but I'm definitely not voting for him in November.
However, you made several statement that were blatantly wrong, and remove credibility from your argument:
Bush illegally invades a sovereign country, based of fake evidences shown to Congress and the UN
Wrong: Bush was enforcing a UN resolution that had been in place since 1991. As of 1997, the UN inspectors knew Saddam had stockpiles of WMD. They tried pressing their investigation; Saddam kicked them out. We should have attacked immediately after this - as this was a flagrant violation of the cease-fire agreement, as was Saddam shooting @ our planes patrolling the NFZ, massing his army along the Kuwaiti border in 98, etc. In the 13 years after Gulf War I, Saddam had broken every single condition of the cease fire multiple times. If anything, Gulf War II was five years overdue.
violates the Geneva convention repeatedly in Guantanamo Bay
You haven't read the Geneva Conventions, have you? If you had, you would know that they do not apply to Al-Queida fighting abroad. The Geneva Conventions apply to regular soldiers - in uniform - fighting at the behest of a recognized state. Al-Queida are none of these. They are enemy combatants. Enemy combatants are not covered by the GC.
...and Abu Graib
Ok, prisoners at Abu Graib are POW's covered by the GC. Yes, the GC, and US military law have been violated by the atrocities that occured there. However, those who committed these acts are facing Court Martial. They may even be tried for War Crimes. Justice will be served. Is this Dubbya's fault?? Hardly. It is the fault of those who acted, and those who ordered them to act (or turned a blind eye while they were acting). I've been following this story very closly. No investigator has said or even implied that these abuses go up to the White House. The official report states that accountability only goes as far as the Brigadier Commander level.
Aren't they still entitled to due process, even if it's by international military law?
That's just the thing. The Taliban/Al-Qaida are not military. Under international law, they are considered enemy combatants (basically irregulars who don't fight under the flag or uniform of a nation). AFAIK, they are given everything at gitmo that international law mandates. There is no international requirement for "due process" for this type of prisoner, any more than there is international law for the treatment of a nation's domestic prisoners. If someone in a Saudi jail is denied due process, there's no international law that says they can't.
NATO! NA-A-A-TO!
Wants Osama, but dey still say no.
NA, me said NA, me said NA, me said NA, me said NA, me said NA-A-A-TO!
Wants Osama, but dey still say no.
Woke at night to de sound of bombs!
Daytime come an' dey blew up my home.
Bin in mountain when de morning come!
Daytime come an' dey blew up my home.
Come Mr. Taleban, hand over Bin-Laden.
Daytime come an' dey still say no.
Come Mr. Taleban, hand over Bin-Laden.
Daytime come an' dey still say no.
It's six cruise, seven cruise, eight Tomahawks!
Daytime come, air defenses blown.
It's six cruise, seven cruise, eight Tomahawks!
Daytime come and de airport's gone.
NATO! NA-A-A-TO!
Warplanes come an' dey drop dem bombs.
NATO! NA-A-A-TO!
Warplanes come an' dey drop dem bombs.
A screwball bunch of Taleban-a!
Wartime's come, all dey shoot's a drone.
Hide de deadly bloke Osama!
Wartime's come, all dey shoot's a drone.
It's six bombs, seven bombs, eight bombs, BOOM!
Daytime come, ground look like de moon.
It's six bombs, seven bombs, eight bombs, BOOM!
Daytime come, ground look like de moon.
Come Mr. Taleban, hand over Bin-Laden.
Daytime come an' dey still say no.
Come Mr. Taleban, hand over Bin-Laden.
Daytime come an' dey still say no.
NATO! NA-A-A-TO!
Warplanes come an' dey bomb some more.
NATO! NA-A-A-TO!
Warplanes come an' dey bomb some more
If the accusee is innocent, plea bargaining is never a wise move, no matter what one's lawyer advises.
If you live in Arizona, it's often better to cop a deal even if you are innocent. Punishments for Crimes against children in this state are particularly harsh. If you're convicted in a Jury Trial, you'll be facing mandatory consecutive sentences If you're accused of touching a child 10 times, that's a mandatory 10-24 year sentence for each charge. That's 100-240 years in prison without possibility of parole. If I, as an innocent, were faced with this situation, I'd really have to consider a plea bargain rather than take the risk.
He doesn't have to prove anything. It's up to the prosecution to prove something, and his lawyer was utterly incompetent.
Not necessarily. In many states, defenses such as "the computer downloaded it, not me" are considered "affirmative defenses". This type of defense requires that the defendant show a measure of "proof beyond reasonable doubt" that his claim is legitamate. Another example of this is the "Not guilty by reason of insanity" defense that many states have. Here, it is the Defendant that must meet the burden of proof. But again, this depends entirely on which state you live in.
I'd argue that SC2 was the best game ever made. SC3, while having a fantastic sense of humor:
Don't...Ever...Call...K'Tang..."Stupid"!!!
"The Daktalakpak Vivisector explodes in 'An Orgy of Mechanical Rapture!'"
It was pretty lacking as far as a meaningful storyline goes. I think we can attribute this directly to not having Ritchie & Ford at the helm. SC2 made you feel like you were actually there; a deep and enveloping storyline, great characters, and a superb soundtrack. Every quest gave you a feeling of accomplishment, and every secret you uncovered led to an even deeper mystery (which we were hoping would be resolved in SC3, but alas..). This was truly game writing at its finest!!
"been doing work related to a game known as Zelda... for roughly eight years", from the N64 through the current GameCube iterations.
Wow!! Does anyone else feel old when they read this?? It hadn't hit me that N64 was released almost 8 years ago. My experience with Zelda is limited to the Original (1987?) and Adventure of Link (1989). I'd solved both numerous times and kept coming back to them. Even after knowing all the secrets, the replay value was still there. To this day, I can still hear the theme music playing...
You mean they actually stop padding their pockets before that money is totally gone?
If there is a chance of a good ROI, of course! Paul Crouch, founder of TBN was also the Executive Producer of the Omega Code movie franchise. I don't know how much money was made on these films, but I doubt he took a loss (or else he'd never make a sequel). An expedition, (or "mission" as they would call it) to uncover the "truth" about what's atop Mt. Arrarat could be a cash cow for them. Do I believe that it's Noah's Ark? Hell no! But I'm sure that the Tele-fundies could put some spin on it, regardless of what was found, to have their pledge lines ringing off the hooks.
The problem is that there just aren't enough people with that magnitude of resources who take this seriously.
I don't know about that. With all the tax-exempt money that is extorte^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdonated by the faithful to charlatans like the Trinity Broadcasting Network and Robert Tilton, I would assume that there would be more than enough funding (and volunteers) to lead an expidition.
The story as I heard it includes the assertion that the neighboring countries (turkey and one other I believe) were opposed to the idea because of the foreseable influence on their state religions.
What influence would this have? Christians, Jews, and Muslims share the Noah story.
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*Doh* The term I should've used is Thermoplastic jacket.
Actually, IIRC, it was Star Wars: Dark Forces that first introduced the three dimensional aiming. I remember an ad that ran in some gaming magazines when it was released. It was a simple screenshot showing your crosshairs aiming at a stormtrooper's head. The tag line went something like: We've added a new dimension to gaming.
Uhhhh, for one, the shielding for the Cat5 cable that connects your PC to the internet...
BULLSHIT!!!! My uncle (on a B-17 crew) spent the last months of the war in a German POW camp. It was a full forty years after the war before he was able to talk about what happened on the mission when his plane was shot down. As far as what happened when he was a prisoner: He took that to his grave. He wouldn't even tell his own wife about it. Her only clue to the horrors he had to endure came when he would wake up in the middle of the night, screaming. Ask any US vet who was a POW how much the Nazi's fucking respected the Geneva conventions regarding the treatment of their prisoners before you make such ludicrous & uninformed statements.
Yeah, but the bitch of it is that the "tiny minority" you refer to are the ones who like to fly airplanes into buildings.
I never had a problem with Bayesian false positives until I applied for a mortgage. The legitimate mortgage information emailed to me by my loan agent (only 5 emails - but 5 *very important* emails) wound up in my junk folder.
Actually, there was lots of opposition to Palpatine's plan. Padme herself was the main opponent of the Military Creation Act. The Senate had been in endless debate on weather or not to create a Republic Army. Which kind of begs the question of how, if the Senate was so divided, Palpatine was given emergency powers without as much as a single vote being cast. Maybe that was covered in the novelization. Let's face it, Jar Jar was meant to be hated. His sophomoric antics made him the bane of fanboys, and his actions in the Senate will probably paint him as the scapegoat when everything goes to hell. Mod me down if you like, but I will go to my grave saying GL is a genius for this :p
Sorry, I don't believe it. For both prequels, there was rampant speculation and "insider information" on the titles until the day LucasFilm made an official statement, which immediately proved all the rumors false. IIRC, "Birth of the Empire" was "going to be the title" of EP2, according to some rumors from 3 years ago. When the title is leaked, it will be through offical channels, not some trashy tabloid.
Let's not forget That McNamara was also instrumental in defusing the Cuban Missile Crisis. Under a moron like LBJ, I don't think any Defense Sec. could've helped to win Vietnam.
They're not. That's my whole point. There is no international law or treaty that covers them.
even though it appears from a first glance (pending the Supreme Court's decision) that its unconstitutional to do so? You're mixing your controversies. The Supreme Court is mulling weather American citizens can be held at gitmo without due process. Their decision will have nothing to do with foreigners.
However, you made several statement that were blatantly wrong, and remove credibility from your argument:
Bush illegally invades a sovereign country, based of fake evidences shown to Congress and the UN
Wrong: Bush was enforcing a UN resolution that had been in place since 1991. As of 1997, the UN inspectors knew Saddam had stockpiles of WMD. They tried pressing their investigation; Saddam kicked them out. We should have attacked immediately after this - as this was a flagrant violation of the cease-fire agreement, as was Saddam shooting @ our planes patrolling the NFZ, massing his army along the Kuwaiti border in 98, etc. In the 13 years after Gulf War I, Saddam had broken every single condition of the cease fire multiple times. If anything, Gulf War II was five years overdue.
violates the Geneva convention repeatedly in Guantanamo Bay
You haven't read the Geneva Conventions, have you? If you had, you would know that they do not apply to Al-Queida fighting abroad. The Geneva Conventions apply to regular soldiers - in uniform - fighting at the behest of a recognized state. Al-Queida are none of these. They are enemy combatants. Enemy combatants are not covered by the GC.
Ok, prisoners at Abu Graib are POW's covered by the GC. Yes, the GC, and US military law have been violated by the atrocities that occured there. However, those who committed these acts are facing Court Martial. They may even be tried for War Crimes. Justice will be served. Is this Dubbya's fault?? Hardly. It is the fault of those who acted, and those who ordered them to act (or turned a blind eye while they were acting). I've been following this story very closly. No investigator has said or even implied that these abuses go up to the White House. The official report states that accountability only goes as far as the Brigadier Commander level.
That's just the thing. The Taliban/Al-Qaida are not military. Under international law, they are considered enemy combatants (basically irregulars who don't fight under the flag or uniform of a nation). AFAIK, they are given everything at gitmo that international law mandates. There is no international requirement for "due process" for this type of prisoner, any more than there is international law for the treatment of a nation's domestic prisoners. If someone in a Saudi jail is denied due process, there's no international law that says they can't.
NATO! NA-A-A-TO!
Wants Osama, but dey still say no.
NA, me said NA, me said NA, me said NA, me said
NA, me said NA-A-A-TO!
Wants Osama, but dey still say no.
Woke at night to de sound of bombs!
Daytime come an' dey blew up my home.
Bin in mountain when de morning come!
Daytime come an' dey blew up my home.
Come Mr. Taleban, hand over Bin-Laden.
Daytime come an' dey still say no.
Come Mr. Taleban, hand over Bin-Laden.
Daytime come an' dey still say no.
It's six cruise, seven cruise, eight Tomahawks!
Daytime come, air defenses blown.
It's six cruise, seven cruise, eight Tomahawks!
Daytime come and de airport's gone.
NATO! NA-A-A-TO!
Warplanes come an' dey drop dem bombs.
NATO! NA-A-A-TO!
Warplanes come an' dey drop dem bombs.
A screwball bunch of Taleban-a!
Wartime's come, all dey shoot's a drone.
Hide de deadly bloke Osama!
Wartime's come, all dey shoot's a drone.
It's six bombs, seven bombs, eight bombs, BOOM!
Daytime come, ground look like de moon.
It's six bombs, seven bombs, eight bombs, BOOM!
Daytime come, ground look like de moon.
Come Mr. Taleban, hand over Bin-Laden.
Daytime come an' dey still say no.
Come Mr. Taleban, hand over Bin-Laden.
Daytime come an' dey still say no.
NATO! NA-A-A-TO!
Warplanes come an' dey bomb some more.
NATO! NA-A-A-TO!
Warplanes come an' dey bomb some more
If you live in Arizona, it's often better to cop a deal even if you are innocent. Punishments for Crimes against children in this state are particularly harsh. If you're convicted in a Jury Trial, you'll be facing mandatory consecutive sentences If you're accused of touching a child 10 times, that's a mandatory 10-24 year sentence for each charge. That's 100-240 years in prison without possibility of parole. If I, as an innocent, were faced with this situation, I'd really have to consider a plea bargain rather than take the risk.
Not necessarily. In many states, defenses such as "the computer downloaded it, not me" are considered "affirmative defenses". This type of defense requires that the defendant show a measure of "proof beyond reasonable doubt" that his claim is legitamate. Another example of this is the "Not guilty by reason of insanity" defense that many states have. Here, it is the Defendant that must meet the burden of proof. But again, this depends entirely on which state you live in.
Ahh, yes... The Hobo Dogs clerk looks at you, and with his dying breath says, "Would you...like...fries with your...order??"
I bet that their Irvine offices are looking like a Wasteland right now...
Don't...Ever...Call...K'Tang..."Stupid"!!!
"The Daktalakpak Vivisector explodes in 'An Orgy of Mechanical Rapture!'"
It was pretty lacking as far as a meaningful storyline goes. I think we can attribute this directly to not having Ritchie & Ford at the helm. SC2 made you feel like you were actually there; a deep and enveloping storyline, great characters, and a superb soundtrack. Every quest gave you a feeling of accomplishment, and every secret you uncovered led to an even deeper mystery (which we were hoping would be resolved in SC3, but alas..). This was truly game writing at its finest!!
Wow!! Does anyone else feel old when they read this?? It hadn't hit me that N64 was released almost 8 years ago. My experience with Zelda is limited to the Original (1987?) and Adventure of Link (1989). I'd solved both numerous times and kept coming back to them. Even after knowing all the secrets, the replay value was still there. To this day, I can still hear the theme music playing...
If there is a chance of a good ROI, of course! Paul Crouch, founder of TBN was also the Executive Producer of the Omega Code movie franchise. I don't know how much money was made on these films, but I doubt he took a loss (or else he'd never make a sequel). An expedition, (or "mission" as they would call it) to uncover the "truth" about what's atop Mt. Arrarat could be a cash cow for them. Do I believe that it's Noah's Ark? Hell no! But I'm sure that the Tele-fundies could put some spin on it, regardless of what was found, to have their pledge lines ringing off the hooks.
I don't know about that. With all the tax-exempt money that is extorte^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdonated by the faithful to charlatans like the Trinity Broadcasting Network and Robert Tilton, I would assume that there would be more than enough funding (and volunteers) to lead an expidition.
What influence would this have? Christians, Jews, and Muslims share the Noah story.