My first thought on this was how easy it will be change just enough of a picture before releasing it to make it incredibly tough to find out the way you're representing the picture isn't the way it really was.
That's the surprising new recommendation from the National School Boards Association -- a not-for-profit organization representing 95,000 school board members -- in a new study funded by Microsoft, News Corporation, and Verizon.
I'm hardly surprised that a study funded by that group would decide the Internet is safe. And less surprised that social networking sites should be used. Perhaps using Myspace from your Vista PC on your Verizon broadband connection isn't so bad!!11
So... Professional boxers with a cut physique and a BMI of 28.4 are approaching horrible obesity? I think you're confusing BMI and body fat percentage. Body fat is a reasonable way to determine someone's shape, BMI gets horribly skewed for extremely athletic people, and for those rare people who don't way a lot but have a high body fat percentage.
If they actually just look at the base BMI number, there are going to be some athletic people in great shape paying more for health insurance. And then you get into a dangerous area of penalizing people for some things that are (potentially) out of their control. I smell some lawsuits, and some expansion of what's covered under ADA and EEOC rules...
Like so many things, one just has to follow the money. Lots of senators and governors who enjoy a lot of money from the *AA type groups are all too eager to jump on the bandwagon against violent video games. It avoids having to answer hard questions about what your supporters do to earn money, and gives you a chance to "save the children."
It seems like they're operating without any supervision at all.
When both parties are after the same goal (shoring up power), there is no real supervision. The PATRIOT act was passed on an almost unanimous vote. The Democrats had the seats to stop the latest legislation, and didn't. Some of the more hotly contested stuff out there nowadays (like the DMCA and the Defense of Marriage Act) were signed into law under Clinton.
And the U.N. isn't doing any better. The head of Peacekeeping Operations sits idly by during a genocide in Rwanda and then goes on to be the Secretary General of the UN.
We need to stop galaxies from forming a monopoly on being the only galaxy in the universe now, while there's still time. If we sit back and let these galaxies continue merging, it will be too late!
Nah, like I said... Ignoring the fact that both parties are ok with usurping our rights is a problem. Neither party wants to protect our rights. Heck, neither party really even cares about protecting the rights they claim to care about.
By passing this bill, Congress has failed us miserably yet again, and the biggest reason why is because of naive little Bush cheerleaders who are too stupid to know how government works.
You mean like the naive Bush cheerleaders in the Democrat controlled house? I don't disagree with anything you're saying, but I think ignoring the fact that both parties are at least ok enough with it to get it passed worries me somewhat. The Democrats, if they had a backbone, could've stopped it.
I haven't played in a while, so maybe they fixed it up some... But even when my Warlock had finally made it near 70 (got burned out before I finished the last two levels), playing the debuff class, I really didn't have much in the way of debuffs. At least that were really worth casting, and certainly not worth trying to stack.
I think you missed the greater swipe at l337/. editing. "In Australian" can be taken a couple of ways. The way that I took it, that caused me to reread the title several times, was that Australia has its own language called Australian. The way the OP took it was that conducting a sale inside a person from Australian "In [an] Australian..."
First off, the PMRC and the ESRB are far less related that the MPAA and the ESRB. Both bodies exist to rate the content their industries put out so that the government (ideally) doesn't have to step in.
Secondly... By "The South," you obviously mean New York, right? There's a pretty prominent Senator up there that might even be president some day that has called for special hearings into video games. Granted, she lived in the south for a while, but is from up north and represents people up north right now.
Customers won't be much happier if they don't have to wait as long to talk to someone that can barely walk them through the normal support tree. I'd rather wait longer to talk to someone that can actually help me, assuming that I can't get the ideal short wait AND someone that's knowledgable all in one go.
Depending on how much paperwork you're willing to sign, I know some people that would be happy to give you an opportunity to use a M249. There's a time commitment involved, though...
I find it particularly disturbing that people would actually say it's not fair to the theater owner to expect him to exercise his discretion on whether to prosecute someone. Yeah, it's not like we actually want people to act as thinking beings instead of little automatons with no will of their own.
But the theater owner can't exercise his discretion. As a grunt in a big theater chain, it's for the chain to decide. Otherwise you open yourself up to liability of a different sort. "They only prosecuted me because I'm..."
As a chain, you either prosecute people for filming or a don't. The individual manager/owner has little say. And the upper management for the chain has two choices... Sit around and contemplate every possible infraction to set out a result, or declare zero tolerance. Given that zero tolerance has been accepted in the US school system for 13 or so years now, it's no surprise theaters would go for it.
If we've started a trend where even the educators don't have to think, why should we believe anyone else should?
Depending on where you're looking, it's not uncommon for HR people to use some software to search for certain buzz words in a resume. The lock on.doc files may be (have been) as much a limitation of their software than anything else.
Is that nine million current active paid subscriptions? Nine million unique accounts (including trial accounts and accounts that aren't being played right now)? Still a darn good number, I'm sure there are lots of other gaming companies that would like the headache of supporting that many players.
The Protecting Children from Indecent Programming Act introduced by Senator John Rockefeller (D-WV) would effectively overturn the court decision on the Fox Television Stations v. FCC in which the court ruled: "We find the FCC's new policy sanctioning 'fleeting expletives' is arbitrary and capricious under the Administrative Procedures Act for failing to articulate a reasoned basis for its change in policy."
This was started by a Democrat to push back against Fox.
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A company out to make money, does it really matter where the company is from?
I'm sure if there are any problems or abuses, we're not likely to hear about it for a long time.
My first thought on this was how easy it will be change just enough of a picture before releasing it to make it incredibly tough to find out the way you're representing the picture isn't the way it really was.
1: Bah, at the very least you can use it as a benchmarking program. I'm getting 200FPS at the Sermon on the Mount.
A true test is rendering the raining frogs. The Sermon on the Mount had too many static items to be impressive.
That's the surprising new recommendation from the National School Boards Association -- a not-for-profit organization representing 95,000 school board members -- in a new study funded by Microsoft, News Corporation, and Verizon.
I'm hardly surprised that a study funded by that group would decide the Internet is safe. And less surprised that social networking sites should be used. Perhaps using Myspace from your Vista PC on your Verizon broadband connection isn't so bad!!11
How can we protect journalists when their sources are made up, or their pictures are doctored?
So... Professional boxers with a cut physique and a BMI of 28.4 are approaching horrible obesity? I think you're confusing BMI and body fat percentage. Body fat is a reasonable way to determine someone's shape, BMI gets horribly skewed for extremely athletic people, and for those rare people who don't way a lot but have a high body fat percentage.
If they actually just look at the base BMI number, there are going to be some athletic people in great shape paying more for health insurance. And then you get into a dangerous area of penalizing people for some things that are (potentially) out of their control. I smell some lawsuits, and some expansion of what's covered under ADA and EEOC rules...
Hypocritical, yes. Understandable, yes.
Like so many things, one just has to follow the money. Lots of senators and governors who enjoy a lot of money from the *AA type groups are all too eager to jump on the bandwagon against violent video games. It avoids having to answer hard questions about what your supporters do to earn money, and gives you a chance to "save the children."
I'll file it along with "never eat a polar bear liver."
It seems like they're operating without any supervision at all.
When both parties are after the same goal (shoring up power), there is no real supervision. The PATRIOT act was passed on an almost unanimous vote. The Democrats had the seats to stop the latest legislation, and didn't. Some of the more hotly contested stuff out there nowadays (like the DMCA and the Defense of Marriage Act) were signed into law under Clinton.
And the U.N. isn't doing any better. The head of Peacekeeping Operations sits idly by during a genocide in Rwanda and then goes on to be the Secretary General of the UN.
Now I'm just ranting.
We need to stop galaxies from forming a monopoly on being the only galaxy in the universe now, while there's still time. If we sit back and let these galaxies continue merging, it will be too late!
Nah, like I said... Ignoring the fact that both parties are ok with usurping our rights is a problem. Neither party wants to protect our rights. Heck, neither party really even cares about protecting the rights they claim to care about.
By passing this bill, Congress has failed us miserably yet again, and the biggest reason why is because of naive little Bush cheerleaders who are too stupid to know how government works.
You mean like the naive Bush cheerleaders in the Democrat controlled house? I don't disagree with anything you're saying, but I think ignoring the fact that both parties are at least ok enough with it to get it passed worries me somewhat. The Democrats, if they had a backbone, could've stopped it.
I haven't played in a while, so maybe they fixed it up some... But even when my Warlock had finally made it near 70 (got burned out before I finished the last two levels), playing the debuff class, I really didn't have much in the way of debuffs. At least that were really worth casting, and certainly not worth trying to stack.
I think you missed the greater swipe at l337 /. editing. "In Australian" can be taken a couple of ways. The way that I took it, that caused me to reread the title several times, was that Australia has its own language called Australian. The way the OP took it was that conducting a sale inside a person from Australian "In [an] Australian..."
Hate to break up your anti-US sentiment though.
I'll remember that next time I hear about TV and radio shows having to pull hosts and shows under threat of government intervention for their content.
First off, the PMRC and the ESRB are far less related that the MPAA and the ESRB. Both bodies exist to rate the content their industries put out so that the government (ideally) doesn't have to step in.
Secondly... By "The South," you obviously mean New York, right? There's a pretty prominent Senator up there that might even be president some day that has called for special hearings into video games. Granted, she lived in the south for a while, but is from up north and represents people up north right now.
Customers won't be much happier if they don't have to wait as long to talk to someone that can barely walk them through the normal support tree. I'd rather wait longer to talk to someone that can actually help me, assuming that I can't get the ideal short wait AND someone that's knowledgable all in one go.
Depending on how much paperwork you're willing to sign, I know some people that would be happy to give you an opportunity to use a M249. There's a time commitment involved, though...
I find it particularly disturbing that people would actually say it's not fair to the theater owner to expect him to exercise his discretion on whether to prosecute someone. Yeah, it's not like we actually want people to act as thinking beings instead of little automatons with no will of their own.
But the theater owner can't exercise his discretion. As a grunt in a big theater chain, it's for the chain to decide. Otherwise you open yourself up to liability of a different sort. "They only prosecuted me because I'm..."
As a chain, you either prosecute people for filming or a don't. The individual manager/owner has little say. And the upper management for the chain has two choices... Sit around and contemplate every possible infraction to set out a result, or declare zero tolerance. Given that zero tolerance has been accepted in the US school system for 13 or so years now, it's no surprise theaters would go for it.
If we've started a trend where even the educators don't have to think, why should we believe anyone else should?
Depending on where you're looking, it's not uncommon for HR people to use some software to search for certain buzz words in a resume. The lock on .doc files may be (have been) as much a limitation of their software than anything else.
Is that nine million current active paid subscriptions? Nine million unique accounts (including trial accounts and accounts that aren't being played right now)? Still a darn good number, I'm sure there are lots of other gaming companies that would like the headache of supporting that many players.
Seems to be all the rage at Duke. One would think they'd learn from their past mistakes.
You obviously didn't RTFA.
The Protecting Children from Indecent Programming Act introduced by Senator John Rockefeller (D-WV) would effectively overturn the court decision on the Fox Television Stations v. FCC in which the court ruled: "We find the FCC's new policy sanctioning 'fleeting expletives' is arbitrary and capricious under the Administrative Procedures Act for failing to articulate a reasoned basis for its change in policy."
This was started by a Democrat to push back against Fox.
Journalism is well beyond being unsullied these days.