1. You had nothing to do with building the church.
2. The church is a protected landmark. A work of art. Public funds are used to protect it.
3. The game designers did not use "your church" in their video game. They used a model of "your church" that they built inside a computer system. It is not "your church" any more than a drawing of the structure is "your church".
I don't know what is funnier. That you're too daft to understand that the church in the game is a model, or that you are so hypocritical as to use the lords name in vain while making a pro-religious bible thumpin' type argument.
True, But my rant was more directed to the bullshit 'war' on drugs rather than the guy. How many tens of thousands of dollars were spent convincing my friend to do something he normally wouldn't have done? How many tens of thousands of dollars were spent subsequently convicting and incarcerating him? How many times did the DEA agent break the law in order to convince my friend to do something that he normally wouldn't have done? And for what? $20 worth of rock. They weren't interested in where he got it from. They weren't interested in busting the guy that was actually selling the crack. They spent Tens of thousands manipulating and convicting someone, and for what? He didn't sell, he just went and picked it up for the guy. He was a delivery boy at best. He didn't sell weed, crack or anything else. His bust made absolutely no difference in the 'war' on drugs. He's just a statistic they can sell to policy makers to get more money added to their already bloated budget.
My best friend from a few years ago liked to smoke marijuana. He was a good guy. Had a good job, paid his bills, had plans to go to a good college after his girlfriend (who also smoked pot) finished nursing school. All the things that a non-marijuana smoking person would do.
After I had to move away because of a new job, he met a guy that seemed like a good guy. The guy liked to smoke too and would come over and smoke out my friend. Even when my friend lost his job when the plant he worked at shut down unexpectedly, the new guy helped him out by loaning him money to make a car payment. The guy practically became his new best friend. The only thing was that the guy kept pressuring my friend if he knew anyone who could hook him up with crack cocaine.
For months this went on, the guy smoking out my friend, hanging out in his house, smoking my friends pot and often bringing his own to smoke. Finally after almost 5 months, my friend agreed to go get him some crack. $20 worth of rock.
When he got back to the house with the rock, the guy arrested him on the spot. He was DEA. My friend spent 8 months in a federal prison, another 4 months in a halfway house, and has 4 years probation beyond that.
My friend can no longer vote, can no longer own a firearm, can no longer get federal student loans. His future is damaged beyond belief.
How much did the DEA spend to bust my friend for $20 worth of rock? How many laws did they break?.....
Funny thing is... they never once asked him who he bought the rock from. They spend almost 5 months and however many thousands of dollars and man hours just to bust my friend for $20 dollars worth of rock that the guy pressured and made him feel obligated to buy.
If this guy had been on a publicly available list... my friend could have told him to Fuck Off!
Satellite is providing a service. In other words, when you try to crack it, you are mucking with a transmission and the delivery of that (unpaid for) service can be detected.
HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are, ostensibly, providing a product. Sure the discs are encrypted, but they are still a physical medium that you possess and they are, so far, usable without being connected to a network. Therefore the means to decrypt must exist within the disc and the drive, and without a network, there's no way to notify Big Brother if you retrieve the keys in an unauthorized manner.
I know of no hacked sat device that requires communication with the signal provider in order to work. In fact, whether you are using a hacked version of the providers receiver, or a third party receiver, no communication with the provider is required. The receiver gets everything it needs to decrypt the signal directly from the satellite data stream. There is no way that the signal provider can detect that you are hacking the stream.
Satellite TV is extremely secure and has never really been cracked successfully.
I guess I haven't been watching free Dish Network for years then.
Seriously though, the only reason the trickier forms of sat encryption (like DC2) haven't been hacked is because the exact same content is available from providers that use less robust encryption. Why hack the hard stuff when you can get the same programming by hacking the easy stuff?
The same can't be said for HD-DVD and BluRay though as they have a monopoly on the content.
I've been to juvenile detention myself (25 years ago) and I can tell you, Juvenile detention is jail.
I've been to juvenile detention recently (to pick up my nephew), and I can tell you, Juvenile detention is STILL jail!
Just because the inmates are under 18 doesn't mean it's not jail. The other inmates still want to beat (and fuck) your ass. You still sleep in an overcrowded cell. You still eat food you wouldn't feed your dog. You still have to take a shit on a ice cold stainless steel toilet/sink in front of 3 other guys. You DON'T get to go to the playground. You DON'T get to sit around and watch TV. You don't have any communication with the outside world except through your attorney.
It's not about "What if", it's about "What is". Should they be monetarily punished for their actions? Yes, but not because of something that could have happened while he was incarcerated. Lots of things could have happened while he was incarcerated, but none of them did.
Dear Assmonger,
I have a white light bulb and a black light bulb that each give off respective colors. The white light bulb gives off white light. The black light bulb gives off black light (makes all my 80s Wham UK socks go wild for some reason). Thanks for posting though.
You fought so hard to make a good point.... but that post killed any credibilty you might have earned. Thanks for posting though.
I'm watching Dish Network using a Twinhan VP 1020A, MyTheatre and a softcam called emunation right now. I haven't had to mess with keys for months 'cause the softcam pulls right out of the satellite stream.
You really need to learn to cook. Just because you start with the same main ingredient, it does not mean you have to end with the same dish. Not only are there different ways to prepare the same cut with varied techniques and seasoning, giving you different flavors and textures, but there are different cuts that have different flavors and textures all on their own. Add to it that this cloning applies not just to cows, but to pork, chicken, duck, turkey etc.... There is absolutely NO reason to eat the same meal over and over. That is, of course, unless you buy all your meals from McDonald's.
I'm amazed that this got modded interesting. I wish we had a mod for stupid, 'cause that's what it is. Using electricity to generate hydrogen to generate electricity. Why bother.... this is an extremely lossy way to do things. You will lose energy converting the electrictity into hydrogen, and again when you convert the hydrogen back to electricity.
Hydrogen is NOT the answer to our energy problems. Producing, storing, and distributing hydrogen, will cost more energy in the long run, making the energy crisis even worse.
You know, even murderers can be rehabilitated. I've met a guy who killed his wife. He spend 8 years in prison and now he's out being a productive member of society.
8 years for taking another persons life? Is that justice? You call him a productive member of society, I call him a murderer! I'm sure if his wife had been your sister or mother, your POV would be different.
I would expect that the zune will not be limited to only connecting with other nearby zune devices. With 802.11b/g I would expect it to be able to connect to the internet through any available WAP as well.
This would allow you to be connected through a server with your network of friends from anywhere you have wireless access. I would expect that this will also be the way the promo material will filter into the networks.
I also expect these devices will tell some server somewhere what songs you are listening to, what videos you are watching, and what you are sharing. This device will be nothing more than a very precise RIAA marketing tool.
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2. The church is a protected landmark. A work of art. Public funds are used to protect it.
3. The game designers did not use "your church" in their video game. They used a model of "your church" that they built inside a computer system. It is not "your church" any more than a drawing of the structure is "your church".
I don't know what is funnier. That you're too daft to understand that the church in the game is a model, or that you are so hypocritical as to use the lords name in vain while making a pro-religious bible thumpin' type argument.
First, some of want an all in one solution. Second, your solution is no solution for HD.
Google has enough money to compete in these auctions. Why wouldn't they simply outbid the competitors and sell the space themselves?
Correction, XBMC is for the original Xbox, not the Xbox360
True, But my rant was more directed to the bullshit 'war' on drugs rather than the guy. How many tens of thousands of dollars were spent convincing my friend to do something he normally wouldn't have done? How many tens of thousands of dollars were spent subsequently convicting and incarcerating him? How many times did the DEA agent break the law in order to convince my friend to do something that he normally wouldn't have done? And for what? $20 worth of rock. They weren't interested in where he got it from. They weren't interested in busting the guy that was actually selling the crack. They spent Tens of thousands manipulating and convicting someone, and for what? He didn't sell, he just went and picked it up for the guy. He was a delivery boy at best. He didn't sell weed, crack or anything else. His bust made absolutely no difference in the 'war' on drugs. He's just a statistic they can sell to policy makers to get more money added to their already bloated budget.
My best friend from a few years ago liked to smoke marijuana. He was a good guy. Had a good job, paid his bills, had plans to go to a good college after his girlfriend (who also smoked pot) finished nursing school. All the things that a non-marijuana smoking person would do.
After I had to move away because of a new job, he met a guy that seemed like a good guy. The guy liked to smoke too and would come over and smoke out my friend. Even when my friend lost his job when the plant he worked at shut down unexpectedly, the new guy helped him out by loaning him money to make a car payment. The guy practically became his new best friend. The only thing was that the guy kept pressuring my friend if he knew anyone who could hook him up with crack cocaine.
For months this went on, the guy smoking out my friend, hanging out in his house, smoking my friends pot and often bringing his own to smoke. Finally after almost 5 months, my friend agreed to go get him some crack. $20 worth of rock.
When he got back to the house with the rock, the guy arrested him on the spot. He was DEA. My friend spent 8 months in a federal prison, another 4 months in a halfway house, and has 4 years probation beyond that.
My friend can no longer vote, can no longer own a firearm, can no longer get federal student loans. His future is damaged beyond belief.
How much did the DEA spend to bust my friend for $20 worth of rock? How many laws did they break?.....
Funny thing is... they never once asked him who he bought the rock from. They spend almost 5 months and however many thousands of dollars and man hours just to bust my friend for $20 dollars worth of rock that the guy pressured and made him feel obligated to buy.
If this guy had been on a publicly available list... my friend could have told him to Fuck Off!
I know of no hacked sat device that requires communication with the signal provider in order to work. In fact, whether you are using a hacked version of the providers receiver, or a third party receiver, no communication with the provider is required. The receiver gets everything it needs to decrypt the signal directly from the satellite data stream. There is no way that the signal provider can detect that you are hacking the stream.
I guess I haven't been watching free Dish Network for years then.
Seriously though, the only reason the trickier forms of sat encryption (like DC2) haven't been hacked is because the exact same content is available from providers that use less robust encryption. Why hack the hard stuff when you can get the same programming by hacking the easy stuff?
The same can't be said for HD-DVD and BluRay though as they have a monopoly on the content.
I've been to juvenile detention recently (to pick up my nephew), and I can tell you, Juvenile detention is STILL jail!
Just because the inmates are under 18 doesn't mean it's not jail. The other inmates still want to beat (and fuck) your ass. You still sleep in an overcrowded cell. You still eat food you wouldn't feed your dog. You still have to take a shit on a ice cold stainless steel toilet/sink in front of 3 other guys. You DON'T get to go to the playground. You DON'T get to sit around and watch TV. You don't have any communication with the outside world except through your attorney.
Juvenile detention is still jail!
Reality trumps fantasy.
We've been hearing about these kinda things since days after it went into effect. Why has it taken 5 years for our elected leaders to take action?
Judging by his name... I'd say Gay Pride.
Thanks for posting though.
I learned everything I know about DVB-S from http://dvbn.happysat.org/
I'm watching Dish Network using a Twinhan VP 1020A, MyTheatre and a softcam called emunation right now. I haven't had to mess with keys for months 'cause the softcam pulls right out of the satellite stream.
Seriously, I have found on many occasions that entry level PC Techs stink from lack of bathing.
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There are drivers that work, but there is no HD-DVD player software available yet to let you watch the movie that is stored on the disc.
Some peoples children... I swear!
...... last-minute bug that 'took most of the Vista team by surprise'......
is that some of the Vista team knew about it!
You really need to learn to cook. Just because you start with the same main ingredient, it does not mean you have to end with the same dish. Not only are there different ways to prepare the same cut with varied techniques and seasoning, giving you different flavors and textures, but there are different cuts that have different flavors and textures all on their own. Add to it that this cloning applies not just to cows, but to pork, chicken, duck, turkey etc.... There is absolutely NO reason to eat the same meal over and over. That is, of course, unless you buy all your meals from McDonald's.
Hydrogen is NOT the answer to our energy problems. Producing, storing, and distributing hydrogen, will cost more energy in the long run, making the energy crisis even worse.
You call him a productive member of society, I call him a murderer! I'm sure if his wife had been your sister or mother, your POV would be different.
I would expect that the zune will not be limited to only connecting with other nearby zune devices. With 802.11b/g I would expect it to be able to connect to the internet through any available WAP as well. This would allow you to be connected through a server with your network of friends from anywhere you have wireless access. I would expect that this will also be the way the promo material will filter into the networks. I also expect these devices will tell some server somewhere what songs you are listening to, what videos you are watching, and what you are sharing. This device will be nothing more than a very precise RIAA marketing tool.