Anyone that gets scammed like this (in either world) deserves to be parted from their money. Anything we can do to make stupidity painful (or at least expensive) is OK in my book.
You must just love it when grandmas who have only just discovered the internet lose their life savings to PRESIDENT UBUNTA OF NIGERIA.
These 'Tech Demos' and 30-second trailers, while nice and all, offer none of the 'playtesting' that Wolf3d, Doom, the Commander Keen games, etc provided freely in their shareware versions.
Ahhh, shareware, those were the days! Blood and Shadow Warrior are the last games I recall to provide full shareware versions, and Daggerfall even gave you a whole island to play with! Ah well....
Now I like the business model used with those arcade/puzzle games, like the ones from PopCap or published by Reflexive. They give you an hour (or 30 minutes, lately) to get as far in the whole game as you can. Since the gameplay rarely differs much form beginning to the end, you'll often have a pretty good idea of exactly what you're being asked to pay money for.
Magical snowflake factory in heaven that molds each flake, and after each flake they break the mold, never to use it again?
This is what I hate about slashdot. People keep asking questions that they already know the answers to just so they can answer them on the next line....
One girl was awarded nearly 3/4 of a million dollars when a correctional officer raped her while she visited her boyfriend in jail, you know what she did with it ? Her and her new boyfriend smoked crack with it & frittered it away in about a year.
That hardly seems like a frivolous lawsuit to me. You could use the same argument for lottery winnings - when's the last time you heard of a jackpot winner doing something good with their money?
A simple "Don't do it because I forbid you to do it" won't cut it. Get a hold of a made-for-tv movie where a teen gets raped/murdered by their online "buddy", and show it to the kids. If they still refuse to see the light, it's Darwin time.
The simple truth is that, while it may be statistically unlikely, the final voting tally gives us the truth: Bush won. They may be 95% confident that he didn't, but that doesn't mean that the final 5% can't happen. It did.
Obviously he won. The question is whether or not the votes that gave him the win were genuine.
What if you want to let the store owners know that the lock is broken? When they ask "how do you know?" you reply "Well, I touched the lock, and it fell apart." So they turn you in for vandalism and breaking and entering.
This is why I believe that Jon Stewart should be the '08 Democratic Presidential nominee, while Stephen Colbert should be the Republican one. Let the two party system do some good for a change!
Darwin Awards sometimes just don't make sense. I remember reading an award about some girl who had a habit of chewing her hair, and over the years it grew into a huge hairball in her stomach which killed her. There's no way that girl should've been placed among the (many, many) morons who hammer on unexploded artillery shells, but that's the way that site is, so I have almost no doubt that the water woman will be at least an honorable mention this year.
Insurgent is a broader term. An insurgent on the other hand is someone who takes up arms against the current governments authority. That is a term that describes almost all of the fighters in Iraq. Iraq fighters are not just fighting occupation. They are fighting other militia groups, the government, and some times just indulging in good old fashion ethnic cleansing. Doing any of the above is defying the authority of the current government, hence they are insurgents.
So all armed criminals in the U.S. are insurgents because they "take up arms" and "defy the authority of the current government"?
So if you go to a strip club you should take off your prescription glasses/contact lenses because otherwise it will be just like using a microscope? Cause, you know, no matter what resolution your HD is, it doesn't quite compare with real life.
What it really means for men is that the more attracted you are the the woman you're having sex with, the greater the chances that you'll need to use protection.
Of course the only true way to be safe is to abs^H^H^Hread slashdot.
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Anyone that gets scammed like this (in either world) deserves to be parted from their money. Anything we can do to make stupidity painful (or at least expensive) is OK in my book.
You must just love it when grandmas who have only just discovered the internet lose their life savings to PRESIDENT UBUNTA OF NIGERIA.
How will the skirmishers react when after they finally score a kill, the elite hits the "quickload" key?
These 'Tech Demos' and 30-second trailers, while nice and all, offer none of the 'playtesting' that Wolf3d, Doom, the Commander Keen games, etc provided freely in their shareware versions.
Ahhh, shareware, those were the days! Blood and Shadow Warrior are the last games I recall to provide full shareware versions, and Daggerfall even gave you a whole island to play with! Ah well....
Now I like the business model used with those arcade/puzzle games, like the ones from PopCap or published by Reflexive. They give you an hour (or 30 minutes, lately) to get as far in the whole game as you can. Since the gameplay rarely differs much form beginning to the end, you'll often have a pretty good idea of exactly what you're being asked to pay money for.
Magical snowflake factory in heaven that molds each flake, and after each flake they break the mold, never to use it again?
This is what I hate about slashdot. People keep asking questions that they already know the answers to just so they can answer them on the next line....
Parent isn't off topic. Jack Chick is known for his propaganda comics, albeit his are of a fanatic religious nature.
One girl was awarded nearly 3/4 of a million dollars when a correctional officer raped her while she visited her boyfriend in jail, you know what she did with it ?
Her and her new boyfriend smoked crack with it & frittered it away in about a year.
That hardly seems like a frivolous lawsuit to me. You could use the same argument for lottery winnings - when's the last time you heard of a jackpot winner doing something good with their money?
A simple "Don't do it because I forbid you to do it" won't cut it. Get a hold of a made-for-tv movie where a teen gets raped/murdered by their online "buddy", and show it to the kids. If they still refuse to see the light, it's Darwin time.
Is the light really being slowed down here, or are the photons just taking the scenic route to their destination instead of going in a straight line?
The LASER malfunctioned, so they renamed it "kinetic kill vehicle" and threw it at the satellite.
The simple truth is that, while it may be statistically unlikely, the final voting tally gives us the truth: Bush won. They may be 95% confident that he didn't, but that doesn't mean that the final 5% can't happen. It did.
Obviously he won. The question is whether or not the votes that gave him the win were genuine.
What if you want to let the store owners know that the lock is broken? When they ask "how do you know?" you reply "Well, I touched the lock, and it fell apart." So they turn you in for vandalism and breaking and entering.
This is why I believe that Jon Stewart should be the '08 Democratic Presidential nominee, while Stephen Colbert should be the Republican one. Let the two party system do some good for a change!
Eh, liberal, conservative who cares. Everyone just gets their news from The Daily Show anyways.
Not everyone, just more people than probably should.
Hahaha, that's some funny stuff, even for someone like me who doesnt know his quarks from his roms.
Ah, Ranger Marcus Cole is definitely not a Christian (or a Muslim, or a Buddhist) then.
Now we're coming out with mathematical models of things that don't really exist.
Strings from string theory could exist. We just need to collapse the waveform in the rigth way....
Whatever happened to the Golden Age of scifi, where what happened "afterwards" was left to the imagination more often than not?
Darwin Awards sometimes just don't make sense. I remember reading an award about some girl who had a habit of chewing her hair, and over the years it grew into a huge hairball in her stomach which killed her. There's no way that girl should've been placed among the (many, many) morons who hammer on unexploded artillery shells, but that's the way that site is, so I have almost no doubt that the water woman will be at least an honorable mention this year.
Insurgent is a broader term. An insurgent on the other hand is someone who takes up arms against the current governments authority. That is a term that describes almost all of the fighters in Iraq. Iraq fighters are not just fighting occupation. They are fighting other militia groups, the government, and some times just indulging in good old fashion ethnic cleansing. Doing any of the above is defying the authority of the current government, hence they are insurgents.
So all armed criminals in the U.S. are insurgents because they "take up arms" and "defy the authority of the current government"?
Nor did I realize that the military could retroactively shoot down satellites that have taken pictures of the Earth for years.
All they need is a working time machine.
Depends, is it an angry super ex-girlfriend?
Heh, yeah, though I prefer to use DJ Java Decompiler (good old free 3.6.6 version before they added all the spywarelike crap)
t oString();
private String buildMessage(List list)
{
String msg = "";
for(Iterator iterator = list.iterator(); iterator.hasNext();)
{
String item = (String)iterator.next();
msg = (new StringBuilder(String.valueOf(msg))).append(item).
}
return msg;
}
So if you go to a strip club you should take off your prescription glasses/contact lenses because otherwise it will be just like using a microscope? Cause, you know, no matter what resolution your HD is, it doesn't quite compare with real life.
So if the **aa stops talking, terrorists will no longer have won? Would they lose retroactively?
What it really means for men is that the more attracted you are the the woman you're having sex with, the greater the chances that you'll need to use protection.
Of course the only true way to be safe is to abs^H^H^Hread slashdot.