You have a good point. Actually, truth be told, a majority of the reporters going over are probably your typical sports reporter. One or two may care enough about journalism to keep writing about the headaches, the rest are going to be enjoying some time in Beijing on the company credit card. But I'm cynical, maybe more would care enough to write about the hassles after the fact.
And you still have yours. Maybe he wasn't a Republican and had any other number of reasons for performing the attacks. Heck, maybe he didn't do it all. Maybe the thought of going through a protracted trial was too much for him.
However, when Senator Jim Jeffords of Vermont announced in May 2001 that he was leaving the Republican caucus to become an independent and would caucus with Democrats, this returned control of the body to the Democrats and Daschle again became Majority Leader.
He was the Majority Leader during the anthrax attack because a Republican changed party affiliation and Daschle was the leader.
It was to the Senate Majority Leader and the head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, that happened to be Democrats. Maybe it was because of their positions of power within the Senate? Maybe he was an anarchist that saw a great opportunity to sow the seeds of confusion and fear? Maybe he was a Bildeberger neo-con front man determined to make sure that the PATRIOT act got passed to usher in a New World Order by eliminating two prominent opponents? Maybe he was just a nut case with an axe to grind that saw an opportunity to get at a couple of people that "wronged" him in the aftermath of a terrorist act?
If you look hard enough for conspiracies, you'll find them. They may not really be there, but it's pretty darn hard to prove something doesn't exist.
Oh, for a mod point or two. I've been saying the same thing for a while. If you want to stop gold farming, make getting gold easier...or eliminate the necessity for large amounts amounts of it. With no perceived need to buy gold, players won't do it. And the ones that do won't really be gaining an advantage, so it doesn't impact other players. As gold farming is less profitable, less farmers clutter up a server.
The same basic argument holds true for banning people for "automating" the game. If the game is so repetitive that people are resorting to automating various aspects of game play, it seems like it would make more sense to ask how they can make it fun rather than take things to court.
I've been sort of disheartened by the quality of math instruction in the US lately, and it's got nothing to do with gender. It certainly seems like newer students lack a lot of the critical math skills that were drilled into my head years ago, based on my limited exposure to new people entering the job market/taking the occasional class here and there.
The short answer is that some hardware/software interaction is going to be different between various OS versions. Common standards for things like ACPI are supposed to help work around it to some extent. If there's a problem, though, rather than spin new hardware for a bug that comes out on some OS's, it might be more cost effective to code a workaround in BIOS.
If you think about it in terms of doing firmware fixes for option cards to correct problems that can't be completely corrected in drivers, in might make a little more sense. Sometimes those problems will only come out on certain architectures.
Sucks for them that they're going to get some bad press about this as it is now on Slashdot's front page.
I don't have a problem with people getting bad press when they advertise functionality they don't actually have. I don't have a problem with them not including chipset drivers for specific OS's, or utilities coded for OS's they don't want to support. But borking your BIOS to throw a monkey wrench into things if Linux is the OS is pretty messed up.
Hope nobody tries to do something silly like boot a Linux Live distro to recover a system where the Windows OS has gone out on one of these things.
It sounds like, from the very cut down version of the story that's available at the link, they didn't want to go to the effort to find out. They probably figured (correctly) it'd be a huge hassle to go through all the hurdles to get the approvals they might need. Rather than dig into it, they talked amongst themselves and decided it wasn't a big deal. Regardless of FAQ containing legal advice to the contrary. They sought minimal outside advice, and may or may not have provided enough information for the third party to make a determination, but didn't pursue it.
When engaging in activities that might be legal, but might be a felony...I'll go for safe over sorry any day.
The linked article doesn't mention anybody specific, and my care level is far too low to do any research on my own. I would be curious to see what companies really care. Certainly some companies, likes Games Workshop, have a pretty draconian policy toward fan created materials on-line...but I haven't heard of Blizzard throwing a fit about raid videos.
The "not creative" part doesn't jibe for me, either. I've seen some raid videos set to music that are at least as creative as the latest spewage on TV.
Generally speaking, I do a decent job at giving an adaptation an even chance. I really enjoyed Starship Troopers, the book, and actually enjoyed the movie...even though the two are radically different. I enjoyed the Lord of the Rings movies, even though there were some dramatic differences between the books.
The only thing I can think of that I didn't enjoy as much, and probably didn't give a fair shake, was the Dresden Files TV show. I really enjoy the books, and didn't actively hate the TV show...but I didn't go out of my way to watch it after the first couple of episodes.
Sweden and Russia are pretty close geographically, last time I checked. I would think that Sweden would have a lot of use for intelligence as it relates to organized crime in Russia, military activities, industrial accidents that might not be reported through more conventional means for some time... Heck, there's a whole host of reasons that a country might want to keep tabs on a neighbor...especially a neighbor that has historically been a little reluctant to share lots of details with the outside world.
Maybe a less "spinny" version would be in order? Basically, it's letter stating that House members should be allowed to use non house.gov areas to post things. But in order to use non house.gov resources, the materials and the site in question has to be vetted by a committee.
It sounds more innocuous the way I spelled it out, but the end result is the same. A committee would have to give prior approval to anything that appears on a non-official site, and approve the site.
I did look it up. It looks like the majority of the times the US used its veto power it was to stop some condemnation of Israel for (ostensibly) acting in their own self defense. The USSR, on the other hand, seemed pretty active in denying membership to possible nations if you go back and look at the entire history of the UNSC.
Most non-geeks likely use computers to surf the Internet and read email. And they want their computer to just work. Giving relatives Linux on their PCs has long been the geeks answer to not having to provide tech support 24/7.
Asus is doing themselves a favor in selling a Linux variant. I imagine it keeps their support calls to a minimum. A quick tutorial to show someone how to get to the Internet, and how to set up their email address, and they're done.
Frankly, if I were looking for good ways to combat corruption...I wouldn't look to the UN. They haven't exactly been the poster children for transparent, non-corrupt activities lately. And they certainly don't seem to be getting held accountable for their mis-steps. Heck, the security director during a genocide became the next Secretary General.
That's not to say the US couldn't use a lot more transparency and accountability, but I hardly think the UN should be dictating the gold standard to anybody.
Why not just stick to keywords? Recommendations based on click-throughs are no less arbitrary, and keeping a list of keywords that a user has looked at has to be smaller than keeping a list of URLs.
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Do I get a nifty green hat to wear while I'm on it?
You didn't really think all the bird culling was because of Avian Influenza, did you?
You have a good point. Actually, truth be told, a majority of the reporters going over are probably your typical sports reporter. One or two may care enough about journalism to keep writing about the headaches, the rest are going to be enjoying some time in Beijing on the company credit card. But I'm cynical, maybe more would care enough to write about the hassles after the fact.
It'll be more interesting when the Persians sue Muslims for wrongful invasion.
And you still have yours. Maybe he wasn't a Republican and had any other number of reasons for performing the attacks. Heck, maybe he didn't do it all. Maybe the thought of going through a protracted trial was too much for him.
Actualy... No.
However, when Senator Jim Jeffords of Vermont announced in May 2001 that he was leaving the Republican caucus to become an independent and would caucus with Democrats, this returned control of the body to the Democrats and Daschle again became Majority Leader.
He was the Majority Leader during the anthrax attack because a Republican changed party affiliation and Daschle was the leader.
It was to the Senate Majority Leader and the head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, that happened to be Democrats. Maybe it was because of their positions of power within the Senate? Maybe he was an anarchist that saw a great opportunity to sow the seeds of confusion and fear? Maybe he was a Bildeberger neo-con front man determined to make sure that the PATRIOT act got passed to usher in a New World Order by eliminating two prominent opponents? Maybe he was just a nut case with an axe to grind that saw an opportunity to get at a couple of people that "wronged" him in the aftermath of a terrorist act?
If you look hard enough for conspiracies, you'll find them. They may not really be there, but it's pretty darn hard to prove something doesn't exist.
Oh, for a mod point or two. I've been saying the same thing for a while. If you want to stop gold farming, make getting gold easier...or eliminate the necessity for large amounts amounts of it. With no perceived need to buy gold, players won't do it. And the ones that do won't really be gaining an advantage, so it doesn't impact other players. As gold farming is less profitable, less farmers clutter up a server.
The same basic argument holds true for banning people for "automating" the game. If the game is so repetitive that people are resorting to automating various aspects of game play, it seems like it would make more sense to ask how they can make it fun rather than take things to court.
You know what that means...A WITCH! - Family Guy
I've been sort of disheartened by the quality of math instruction in the US lately, and it's got nothing to do with gender. It certainly seems like newer students lack a lot of the critical math skills that were drilled into my head years ago, based on my limited exposure to new people entering the job market/taking the occasional class here and there.
"De-fault! Woohoo! The two sweetest words in the English language!"
The short answer is that some hardware/software interaction is going to be different between various OS versions. Common standards for things like ACPI are supposed to help work around it to some extent. If there's a problem, though, rather than spin new hardware for a bug that comes out on some OS's, it might be more cost effective to code a workaround in BIOS.
If you think about it in terms of doing firmware fixes for option cards to correct problems that can't be completely corrected in drivers, in might make a little more sense. Sometimes those problems will only come out on certain architectures.
Sucks for them that they're going to get some bad press about this as it is now on Slashdot's front page.
I don't have a problem with people getting bad press when they advertise functionality they don't actually have. I don't have a problem with them not including chipset drivers for specific OS's, or utilities coded for OS's they don't want to support. But borking your BIOS to throw a monkey wrench into things if Linux is the OS is pretty messed up.
Hope nobody tries to do something silly like boot a Linux Live distro to recover a system where the Windows OS has gone out on one of these things.
It sounds like, from the very cut down version of the story that's available at the link, they didn't want to go to the effort to find out. They probably figured (correctly) it'd be a huge hassle to go through all the hurdles to get the approvals they might need. Rather than dig into it, they talked amongst themselves and decided it wasn't a big deal. Regardless of FAQ containing legal advice to the contrary. They sought minimal outside advice, and may or may not have provided enough information for the third party to make a determination, but didn't pursue it.
When engaging in activities that might be legal, but might be a felony...I'll go for safe over sorry any day.
The linked article doesn't mention anybody specific, and my care level is far too low to do any research on my own. I would be curious to see what companies really care. Certainly some companies, likes Games Workshop, have a pretty draconian policy toward fan created materials on-line...but I haven't heard of Blizzard throwing a fit about raid videos.
The "not creative" part doesn't jibe for me, either. I've seen some raid videos set to music that are at least as creative as the latest spewage on TV.
Is there something I'm missing here?
A shot at enough money to fund an experiment for 37 years, apparently.
It really depends for me, actually.
Generally speaking, I do a decent job at giving an adaptation an even chance. I really enjoyed Starship Troopers, the book, and actually enjoyed the movie...even though the two are radically different. I enjoyed the Lord of the Rings movies, even though there were some dramatic differences between the books.
The only thing I can think of that I didn't enjoy as much, and probably didn't give a fair shake, was the Dresden Files TV show. I really enjoy the books, and didn't actively hate the TV show...but I didn't go out of my way to watch it after the first couple of episodes.
If you're reading this article from a machine in question, you're not broken.
Now please don't call me asking if it's something you should worry about.
Sweden and Russia are pretty close geographically, last time I checked. I would think that Sweden would have a lot of use for intelligence as it relates to organized crime in Russia, military activities, industrial accidents that might not be reported through more conventional means for some time... Heck, there's a whole host of reasons that a country might want to keep tabs on a neighbor...especially a neighbor that has historically been a little reluctant to share lots of details with the outside world.
Maybe a less "spinny" version would be in order? Basically, it's letter stating that House members should be allowed to use non house.gov areas to post things. But in order to use non house.gov resources, the materials and the site in question has to be vetted by a committee.
It sounds more innocuous the way I spelled it out, but the end result is the same. A committee would have to give prior approval to anything that appears on a non-official site, and approve the site.
I did look it up. It looks like the majority of the times the US used its veto power it was to stop some condemnation of Israel for (ostensibly) acting in their own self defense. The USSR, on the other hand, seemed pretty active in denying membership to possible nations if you go back and look at the entire history of the UNSC.
Most non-geeks likely use computers to surf the Internet and read email. And they want their computer to just work. Giving relatives Linux on their PCs has long been the geeks answer to not having to provide tech support 24/7. Asus is doing themselves a favor in selling a Linux variant. I imagine it keeps their support calls to a minimum. A quick tutorial to show someone how to get to the Internet, and how to set up their email address, and they're done.
Frankly, if I were looking for good ways to combat corruption...I wouldn't look to the UN. They haven't exactly been the poster children for transparent, non-corrupt activities lately. And they certainly don't seem to be getting held accountable for their mis-steps. Heck, the security director during a genocide became the next Secretary General.
That's not to say the US couldn't use a lot more transparency and accountability, but I hardly think the UN should be dictating the gold standard to anybody.
There's no way they can fail to stop piracy!
Why not just stick to keywords? Recommendations based on click-throughs are no less arbitrary, and keeping a list of keywords that a user has looked at has to be smaller than keeping a list of URLs.
Here's a list. They've got their hands in a lot of different areas, it'll be tough to avoid them entirely.