And for all the hatred that Democrats love to throw over towards President Bush, he was rather moderate and signed practically every bill Congress sent up to him - including that terrible Medicare Part D bill. Very agreeable and cooperative compared to most presidents.
Your assumption is that common sense matter in a court of law. It does not.
This is one of the most important things one can understand about the law system. My father started to study law and attended law school, something to occupy himself with in his older years. He regularly blew my mind by telling me about court decisions that not only bypassed common sense, but also morality, and kept going into the realm of truly messed up.
The court room has nothing to do with the real world, real experiences, common sense, morality, or anything a sane person might recognize. It's a separate world with its own strange rules, and the only way we mere mundane mortals can tap into it is through our spirit shaman lawyers.
I was looking to buy on about a year ago, and I didn't want an iPod. I find Apple's stuff to be too overpriced for me. I eventually settled on a Cowon J3 - it supports MP3, WMA, OGG, FLAC, WAV and APE (whatever APE is). There's also several other players out there that support a wider ranger of formats - it can just be hard to find them.
The fact that some players support Ogg and FLAC in particular lead me to believe that future Opus support is not out of the realm of possibility - especially if we vote with our wallets, and contact these companies to let them know that their support of various formats was a major selling point.
I don't really understand why being wealthy is a bad thing. I would much prefer a successful leader than an unsuccessful leader. I am not jealous of people who have a lot of money. I'm happy for them. If they worked for it, good for them, they're awesome and smart and a hard worker. If they won the lottery or their parents left it for them, good for them, they got lucky.
But I guess I'm not the typical selfish, resentful person.
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Exactly. Additionally, I would like to know what "great content" exists on Facebook anyway. "Person X has posted a photo." "Person Y likes Person X's photo!" Yeah, that's some great content there.
Really, just block the whole site completely. Any valid educational content that might possibly maybe be found on there can also be found elsewhere in greater amounts.
License plate readers are a great idea! Just this past week, it helped Mr. Police Officer know that my car registration was out of date. Mr. Police Officer was of course very polite as he told me about the $200 fine. Very handy! Now the government can raise revenue more easily!
On a related note, does it have any advantages over Winamp? Winamp has a small footprint and plugin support (with lots of plugins), a simple UI, a decent library feature, and has been my music player of choice for a very long time. I've tried other things but alternatives just seem so bloated (especially iTunes - oh dear god).
NBC's coverage has ALWAYS been bad. The worst part is that they smother everything with "human interest" stories to the point where you're not sure if you're watching the Olympics or some daytime talk show. Also, they commentary has been ridiculous - and sometimes outright offensive (particularly during the opening ceremonies).
I am incredibly annoyed that the Olympic Committee has started this broadcast monopoly business. It's terrible. NBC paid cash, so they can be as terrible as they want with impunity.
Which is why I have a new VPN account so that I can watch the BBC's coverage.
I would be happy to pay $20 or so for an Official Olympics Streaming Account or somesuch.
I don't think the super adamant Richard M. Stalin types are as numerous as you believe them to be. There's a lot of Linux fans where I work, and the only reason they have a Windows partition at all is for gaming. All of them are excited about Valve's interest in Linux as a platform - not a single mention among them about DRM being a concern. Personally, I don't care as long as it works.
I think that the vocal minority / silent majority is a truism here, as it often is everywhere else.
I don't know of any republicans that want to completely abolish the EPA. Maybe reign it in a bit - its powers are pretty broad - but abolish it completely? Heck no. Even if one doesn't believe in man-made global warming, one does believe that dumping nuclear waste into rivers and lakes should be very much illegal. There may be a few fringe people who want to destroy it completely, but part of the general GOP platform? No, I don't think so.
I'm happy that there is a governmental body that can pass some regulation and assess fines; as someone who lives near Cleveland, OH I much prefer that we no longer set rivers on fire.
The "Left" and the "Right" have a lot more in common than either side thinks, but they're too busy spitting ridiculous one-liner sound bites and demonizing the other side to see the common ground and act on it. There's too much money and power to be made in being a cocky bastard and convincing people that "the other side" is just a bunch of horrible, evil, terrible people that want to kill babies.
I wish I could just throw up my hands and ignore politics. I really do. I'm sick of the gotcha game, sick of the nasty lies, the deliberate information and hyperbole. It just pisses me off. But I still pay attention and vote anyway because, well, maybe I can get someone a little less awful into office next time. A little less small minded, a little less polarized.
Yes, because games are something that only children do. Especially games that use a significant amount of math and copious amounts of (admittedly often too) complicated rules. Games that encourage out of the box thinking. Games where you can include complex scenarios - and be able to handle them in any way you choose, assuming you are alright with the consequences. Not limited to combat, games with older players often include politics, economics, religion, and other social issues.
I know you're just trolling, but there's far more to pen and paper RPGs than many people think.
I'd take a half-assed PnP RPG game over an incredible computer RPG any day. Why? Because the computer gives me a very limited set of choices and makes a lot of assumptions. If I want to do X, and it isn't coded into the game, then I can't even attempt to do X. Not so in PnP games.
I don't see why you would want to take money away. Give more tax cuts to billionaires, so that they can start some more companies that will use the pure science to make some cool products and make some money - which creates jobs and does other good stuff. More people with jobs = less people on entitlement programs = more money available for scientific programs.
I do think that governments keep too many secrets. That said, a government should have the capability to keep some secrets.
While it would be interesting, I don't want to know (for example) the list of spies we have planted in the Iranian government. I don't want to know the location of our nuclear warheads. I also don't want to know every detail of the president's schedule for the next six months.
A fully transparent government is a wonderful ideal, but like many ideals it just doesn't work well in practice. In order to protect its people, a government needs to have some expectation of privacy in certain areas.
I think our government works in the opposite way that it should here. By default, all documents / calls / emails / etc. produced by a government office - any government office - should be filed away, made public so that anyone can go get them. It should be the exception to the rule that a document / process / etc. is kept secret - and the necessity to keep such things a secret should be validated by a third party.
Access to food and hospitals is pretty important. You can make a very good argument that such places require extra accessibility since people need to buy food and see doctors.
You can't make such an argument for movies on NetFlix. Access to NetFlix is not required to have a normal life. It isn't required to live at all.
When I was younger I was encouraged to join the Cub Scouts (Boy Scouts for younger kids) with the promises of camping, learning about the outdoors, learning to shoot, and doing cool stuff in general. Instead our time was mostly spent indoors cooking or making crappy crafts. I suffered through it for about 2 years before I was allowed to drop out.
Maybe the Boy Scouts actually get to do the cool stuff - or maybe they just make slightly less crappy crafts and bake bigger cookies or something. I don't know. I do know that the Older People who went through Boy Scouts will say that the organization is not the same as it was in decades prior. Really a shame.
I think the best way to deal with this issue is to tie ads directly into the show - very much like they used to with older shows. Character A comes home, opens the refrigerator, pulls out a bottle of Coke and takes a long drink. "Crisp and refreshing!" It's part of the show, can't really skip it, and producers / advertisers can find all kinds of clever ways to get their product into the show.
There's a couple problems with this model though. Once the show is produced you can't change the advertising - you'd have to record the show over again and change the script. Over time, some of the ads will become less and less relevant (some new car or the latest cool tech device). It's also harder to slip into content that takes place in an older time period.
Still, I think creativity, and careful product selection, can minimize these issues. If it's done well (it wouldn't be, but if it is) then it won't even be too annoying to the viewers.
If you can't get what you want, you have to settle for a compromise... With the hope that you can ultimately make it to your final destination at some later point down the road.
The legal system - hell, ANY big system - doesn't like sudden, drastic change. But lots of little baby steps? People won't even notice if you do it correctly.
Whenever someone from the Republican party does something stupid, the article is instantly slapped with a "Republicans" tag. When a Democrat does something stupid... It's just one person being stupid.
You'd be surprised how easy this is to do with a little bit of software. There's plenty of things out there that will read the artist/album/title/track information from an MP3 or other file and move the file around to where it needs to be.
If ripping CDs, then it's even easier: Stick in a disc, software automatically contacts CDDB for all of the information. You click a single button. Entire disc is ripped, encoded, tagged, and dumped in the proper location.
Not being familiar with the Amiga OS at all, could you explain what made it so good? Is there anything about it that is better than what we have today?
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We're doomed as a republic if we are the ones who refuse to pay attention and are stupid enough to keep electing people like that into office.
And for all the hatred that Democrats love to throw over towards President Bush, he was rather moderate and signed practically every bill Congress sent up to him - including that terrible Medicare Part D bill. Very agreeable and cooperative compared to most presidents.
This is one of the most important things one can understand about the law system. My father started to study law and attended law school, something to occupy himself with in his older years. He regularly blew my mind by telling me about court decisions that not only bypassed common sense, but also morality, and kept going into the realm of truly messed up.
The court room has nothing to do with the real world, real experiences, common sense, morality, or anything a sane person might recognize. It's a separate world with its own strange rules, and the only way we mere mundane mortals can tap into it is through our spirit shaman lawyers.
Just a note on portable music players...
I was looking to buy on about a year ago, and I didn't want an iPod. I find Apple's stuff to be too overpriced for me. I eventually settled on a Cowon J3 - it supports MP3, WMA, OGG, FLAC, WAV and APE (whatever APE is). There's also several other players out there that support a wider ranger of formats - it can just be hard to find them.
The fact that some players support Ogg and FLAC in particular lead me to believe that future Opus support is not out of the realm of possibility - especially if we vote with our wallets, and contact these companies to let them know that their support of various formats was a major selling point.
I don't really understand why being wealthy is a bad thing. I would much prefer a successful leader than an unsuccessful leader. I am not jealous of people who have a lot of money. I'm happy for them. If they worked for it, good for them, they're awesome and smart and a hard worker. If they won the lottery or their parents left it for them, good for them, they got lucky.
But I guess I'm not the typical selfish, resentful person.
I love you, Slashdot. I learn something new every day.
Exactly. Additionally, I would like to know what "great content" exists on Facebook anyway. "Person X has posted a photo." "Person Y likes Person X's photo!" Yeah, that's some great content there.
Really, just block the whole site completely. Any valid educational content that might possibly maybe be found on there can also be found elsewhere in greater amounts.
License plate readers are a great idea! Just this past week, it helped Mr. Police Officer know that my car registration was out of date. Mr. Police Officer was of course very polite as he told me about the $200 fine. Very handy! Now the government can raise revenue more easily!
On a related note, does it have any advantages over Winamp? Winamp has a small footprint and plugin support (with lots of plugins), a simple UI, a decent library feature, and has been my music player of choice for a very long time. I've tried other things but alternatives just seem so bloated (especially iTunes - oh dear god).
NBC's coverage has ALWAYS been bad. The worst part is that they smother everything with "human interest" stories to the point where you're not sure if you're watching the Olympics or some daytime talk show. Also, they commentary has been ridiculous - and sometimes outright offensive (particularly during the opening ceremonies).
I am incredibly annoyed that the Olympic Committee has started this broadcast monopoly business. It's terrible. NBC paid cash, so they can be as terrible as they want with impunity.
Which is why I have a new VPN account so that I can watch the BBC's coverage.
I would be happy to pay $20 or so for an Official Olympics Streaming Account or somesuch.
I don't think the super adamant Richard M. Stalin types are as numerous as you believe them to be. There's a lot of Linux fans where I work, and the only reason they have a Windows partition at all is for gaming. All of them are excited about Valve's interest in Linux as a platform - not a single mention among them about DRM being a concern. Personally, I don't care as long as it works.
I think that the vocal minority / silent majority is a truism here, as it often is everywhere else.
I don't know of any republicans that want to completely abolish the EPA. Maybe reign it in a bit - its powers are pretty broad - but abolish it completely? Heck no. Even if one doesn't believe in man-made global warming, one does believe that dumping nuclear waste into rivers and lakes should be very much illegal. There may be a few fringe people who want to destroy it completely, but part of the general GOP platform? No, I don't think so.
I'm happy that there is a governmental body that can pass some regulation and assess fines; as someone who lives near Cleveland, OH I much prefer that we no longer set rivers on fire.
The "Left" and the "Right" have a lot more in common than either side thinks, but they're too busy spitting ridiculous one-liner sound bites and demonizing the other side to see the common ground and act on it. There's too much money and power to be made in being a cocky bastard and convincing people that "the other side" is just a bunch of horrible, evil, terrible people that want to kill babies.
I wish I could just throw up my hands and ignore politics. I really do. I'm sick of the gotcha game, sick of the nasty lies, the deliberate information and hyperbole. It just pisses me off. But I still pay attention and vote anyway because, well, maybe I can get someone a little less awful into office next time. A little less small minded, a little less polarized.
I'm probably fooling myself, though.
Does the introduction of 4th edition and 5th edition in any way stop you from using older source books?
I'm still using 3.5, my books didn't suddenly disappear overnight when 4th was released.
Yes, because games are something that only children do. Especially games that use a significant amount of math and copious amounts of (admittedly often too) complicated rules. Games that encourage out of the box thinking. Games where you can include complex scenarios - and be able to handle them in any way you choose, assuming you are alright with the consequences. Not limited to combat, games with older players often include politics, economics, religion, and other social issues.
I know you're just trolling, but there's far more to pen and paper RPGs than many people think.
I'd take a half-assed PnP RPG game over an incredible computer RPG any day. Why? Because the computer gives me a very limited set of choices and makes a lot of assumptions. If I want to do X, and it isn't coded into the game, then I can't even attempt to do X. Not so in PnP games.
Very interesting. I believe I may do this.
I don't see why you would want to take money away. Give more tax cuts to billionaires, so that they can start some more companies that will use the pure science to make some cool products and make some money - which creates jobs and does other good stuff. More people with jobs = less people on entitlement programs = more money available for scientific programs.
I do think that governments keep too many secrets. That said, a government should have the capability to keep some secrets.
While it would be interesting, I don't want to know (for example) the list of spies we have planted in the Iranian government. I don't want to know the location of our nuclear warheads. I also don't want to know every detail of the president's schedule for the next six months.
A fully transparent government is a wonderful ideal, but like many ideals it just doesn't work well in practice. In order to protect its people, a government needs to have some expectation of privacy in certain areas.
I think our government works in the opposite way that it should here. By default, all documents / calls / emails / etc. produced by a government office - any government office - should be filed away, made public so that anyone can go get them. It should be the exception to the rule that a document / process / etc. is kept secret - and the necessity to keep such things a secret should be validated by a third party.
Performance review outcomes purely on the basis of length of service? That's abysmal!
Sounds like a typical union to me.
Access to food and hospitals is pretty important. You can make a very good argument that such places require extra accessibility since people need to buy food and see doctors.
You can't make such an argument for movies on NetFlix. Access to NetFlix is not required to have a normal life. It isn't required to live at all.
When I was younger I was encouraged to join the Cub Scouts (Boy Scouts for younger kids) with the promises of camping, learning about the outdoors, learning to shoot, and doing cool stuff in general. Instead our time was mostly spent indoors cooking or making crappy crafts. I suffered through it for about 2 years before I was allowed to drop out.
Maybe the Boy Scouts actually get to do the cool stuff - or maybe they just make slightly less crappy crafts and bake bigger cookies or something. I don't know. I do know that the Older People who went through Boy Scouts will say that the organization is not the same as it was in decades prior. Really a shame.
I think the best way to deal with this issue is to tie ads directly into the show - very much like they used to with older shows. Character A comes home, opens the refrigerator, pulls out a bottle of Coke and takes a long drink. "Crisp and refreshing!" It's part of the show, can't really skip it, and producers / advertisers can find all kinds of clever ways to get their product into the show.
There's a couple problems with this model though. Once the show is produced you can't change the advertising - you'd have to record the show over again and change the script. Over time, some of the ads will become less and less relevant (some new car or the latest cool tech device). It's also harder to slip into content that takes place in an older time period.
Still, I think creativity, and careful product selection, can minimize these issues. If it's done well (it wouldn't be, but if it is) then it won't even be too annoying to the viewers.
If you can't get what you want, you have to settle for a compromise... With the hope that you can ultimately make it to your final destination at some later point down the road.
The legal system - hell, ANY big system - doesn't like sudden, drastic change. But lots of little baby steps? People won't even notice if you do it correctly.
Whenever someone from the Republican party does something stupid, the article is instantly slapped with a "Republicans" tag. When a Democrat does something stupid... It's just one person being stupid.
You'd be surprised how easy this is to do with a little bit of software. There's plenty of things out there that will read the artist/album/title/track information from an MP3 or other file and move the file around to where it needs to be.
If ripping CDs, then it's even easier: Stick in a disc, software automatically contacts CDDB for all of the information. You click a single button. Entire disc is ripped, encoded, tagged, and dumped in the proper location.
Not being familiar with the Amiga OS at all, could you explain what made it so good? Is there anything about it that is better than what we have today?