Why they celebrate birthdays and not conception days (they're so adamant at trying to control non-believers definitions of "life").
Well, everyone born in September can celebrate on New Year's Eve. Other than that, though, it'd probably be tough to nail it down to an exact day, unless your parents did it really infrequently.
Seems like everyone is trying for that brass ring. While others have mentioned that companies other than Honda have produced prototypes for vehicles and fuel cell tech, it doesn't seem like we're getting any closer.
They're trying for the brass ring because whoever gets it stands to make an assload of money. Progress seems slow, but what'll happen is somebody will hit the perfect combination of cost and convenience, and the whole industry will change overnight.
A hundred years ago, internal combustion cars were the domain of nutty inventors and rich playboys until Henry Ford figured out how to make them so that everybody could afford one.
I absolutely agree. Risk of any kind is totally unacceptable. Any endeavour where there's even a chance of someone getting a paper cut should be encumbered by layers and layers of conflicting regulations or outlawed entirely.
whatever your thoughts on the WoT, after 9/11, if he was all you say, would he really believe in promoting democracy and changing the medieval ways of the middle east or would he just say "kill em all, let God sort them out"?
Are you serious or is my sarcasm detector on the fritz again? First of all, no leader of a country could say "Kill 'em all, let God sort them out" without bringing down essentially the rest of the world on them. Even the mighty US wouldn't last long if we instituted a policy of total war against the citizens of another country, regardless of the reason for it.
Second of all, if you are genuinely interested in promoting democracy, is a virtually unilateral (don't forget Poland!), poorly planned invasion on the thinnest of pretexts really a good way to go about it? The war has done nothing but drive anti-US sentiment all over the Middle East. Either Bush and his crew are criminally incompetent, or their primary goal was something other than promoting democracy.
The problem is that Jack Thompson is not trying to have a reasonable or logical debate. His tactics are all about sound bites and media exposure. He makes a big noise in the media when he files his ridiculous lawsuits and gets all the sheep in the country to go "Oh my gosh, videogames are teh evil!" If you look at his track record, he hasn't won very many cases like this. Even in the Hot Coffee thing, he didn't win a legal victory, the ESRB just bumped the "appropriate age" for the game from 17 to 18. The only reason it made a damn bit of difference was because places like Wallyworld don't carry AO games, and it knocked the hell out of R*'s bottom line.
You can't argue with someone like that because if you start winning, he'll just change the parameters of the argument. Failing that, he'll just start spouting nonsense that sounds good when the media takes it out of context. Rather than fight a useless battle, R* resorts to their stock-in-trade, parody... which is what the GTA series has essentially been since day one.
Bottom line, "normal" societial issues in the damaged area will be suspended until things are under control. That's the way it has always been and the only way thing work. These "volunteers" want to place braodcasting equipment in a damaged building from which they will broadcast whatever they want to people in the damaged area?
Just FYI, the article talks about people looking to set up a low power FM station in the Astrodome in Houston, TX. To the best of my knowledge, this building is entirely undamaged, as is the vast majority of the greater Houston area.
My *biggest* pet peeve with Outlook is with HTML formatted e-mails that use that stupid vertical, blue line to delineate quoted text. There is absolutely no way to split that line, so you can break apart the original text and respond to the parts individually. I usually wrestle with it for about a minute, then get fed up and top post.
It's funny, Richard Hoagland is on Coast-to-Coast AM pretty regularly. (What can I say? I'm an insomniac and it's an entertaining show.) On the radio, he sounds very smart and usually quite rational. The web site, on the other hand, is so kooky it's almost hard to believe that it's written by the same person. He seems to be extremely fond of zooming waaay in on heavily compressed JPEG images and imagining all kinds of artificial formations in the compression artifacts. I wonder sometimes if he really believes all this stuff, or if it's just a ploy to get attention and presumably bring in $$$.
FWIW, his own biography says he was a museum curator, a NASA consultant (whatever that means), and a science advisor to CBS news. It's a more impressive resumé than your garden variety conspiracy nut, but he wasn't exactly a "big wig at NASA".
Heh... as a GM owner for the better part of the last 11 years, I can tell you it will be well past 2008 before I will place 100% trust in any auto-pilot designed by GM.
Actually, a typical modern SUV *is* more efficient than a truck of a similar size from 40 or 50 years ago. The main problem with SUVs is their rampant popularity. Before the SUV craze, trucks were primarily work vehicles and made up only a small fraction of the vehicles on the road.
Most likely other MP3 player makes will gleefuly jump on to fill in the void left my iTunes's demise, so Apple would be the only one burnt. Some shyster would also likely start a class-action suit against Apple on behalf of people who have bought iPods recently and suddenly don't have a source of music for them.
I don't follow... Even if you're right and ITMS were to go under (which I still don't think is likely), an iPod would still be able to play MP3's just like any other player, no? Worst case, you could still rip MP3's from your own CDs, just like we used to back in the old days.
What Apple really needs to do is tell these record labels to go screw. Let them pull their catalogs off of ITMS. Do you think the legions of iTunes users are all going to stampede out and start buying CDs again?
If they're really lucky, these record labels won't see a further drop in their CD sales. Plus they won't have the revenue stream from Apple anymore. They'll come crawling back in no time.
I've heard a lot of whining like this from the business community lately. I saw an article about Costco a while back, and their revolutionary practice of (gasp!) treating their employees like human beings. In the article, some fund manager was complaining that "it's almost better to be an employee than to be a stockholder." Unfortunately, they didn't ask him to elaborate on why this would be a bad thing.
Exactly! My gut reaction is if I have to go buy some expensive, DRM-enabled monitor to view your "premium content", you can take your "premium content" and blow it out your ass. It's not like missing out on the latest poorly-scripted, badly-acted, special effects extravaganza is going to lower my quality of life any.
I know when I got nailed (I had launched IE just to take a quick look at a page that wasn't rendering right in Firefox), a dialog popped up asking if I wanted to install such-and-such program. I'm not sure if it was Javascript or ActiveX or what, but the impression I got is that it was something that would have installed silently prior to the latest round of security updates.
As it was, I knew what it was, and reached to click the "No" button. Somehow I missed and hit "Yes" instead. I realized what I had done an instant after I released the mouse button. It took me four hours to rip that fucker out completely.
One click was all it took, although this was quite a while ago. I don't know if the latest security updates make it harder to do by accident. All I know is if a page doesn't render in Firefox, I don't need to see it.
There isn't much animation involved in the hooker sequence. Basically, the suspension of whatever car you're in just bounces. In GTA3 and (I think) Vice City, you could actually get the camera to flip around to see inside the car, and your character and the hooker are just sitting side by side not moving, while the car hops around like a lowrider. I'm sure it's the same in San Andreas, except they fix the camera at a low, rear angle, so there's no way to see inside the car.
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Why they celebrate birthdays and not conception days (they're so adamant at trying to control non-believers definitions of "life").
Well, everyone born in September can celebrate on New Year's Eve. Other than that, though, it'd probably be tough to nail it down to an exact day, unless your parents did it really infrequently.
Because these are the 2005 numbers. The Sims 2 was originally released in 2004, so some of the sales were reported with last year's figures.
Well, if his eyesight's going he must be fitting it in somewhere.
The difference being that Han shot first, Einstein wouldn't have.
Unless, of course, gas stations started culturing bacteria...
If you think this is not already being done, clearly you've never used a gas station restroom.
Hey Jack? Is that you, man?
Seems like everyone is trying for that brass ring. While others have mentioned that companies other than Honda have produced prototypes for vehicles and fuel cell tech, it doesn't seem like we're getting any closer.
They're trying for the brass ring because whoever gets it stands to make an assload of money. Progress seems slow, but what'll happen is somebody will hit the perfect combination of cost and convenience, and the whole industry will change overnight.
A hundred years ago, internal combustion cars were the domain of nutty inventors and rich playboys until Henry Ford figured out how to make them so that everybody could afford one.
I absolutely agree. Risk of any kind is totally unacceptable. Any endeavour where there's even a chance of someone getting a paper cut should be encumbered by layers and layers of conflicting regulations or outlawed entirely.
whatever your thoughts on the WoT, after 9/11, if he was all you say, would he really believe in promoting democracy and changing the medieval ways of the middle east or would he just say "kill em all, let God sort them out"?
Are you serious or is my sarcasm detector on the fritz again? First of all, no leader of a country could say "Kill 'em all, let God sort them out" without bringing down essentially the rest of the world on them. Even the mighty US wouldn't last long if we instituted a policy of total war against the citizens of another country, regardless of the reason for it.
Second of all, if you are genuinely interested in promoting democracy, is a virtually unilateral (don't forget Poland!), poorly planned invasion on the thinnest of pretexts really a good way to go about it? The war has done nothing but drive anti-US sentiment all over the Middle East. Either Bush and his crew are criminally incompetent, or their primary goal was something other than promoting democracy.
The problem is that Jack Thompson is not trying to have a reasonable or logical debate. His tactics are all about sound bites and media exposure. He makes a big noise in the media when he files his ridiculous lawsuits and gets all the sheep in the country to go "Oh my gosh, videogames are teh evil!" If you look at his track record, he hasn't won very many cases like this. Even in the Hot Coffee thing, he didn't win a legal victory, the ESRB just bumped the "appropriate age" for the game from 17 to 18. The only reason it made a damn bit of difference was because places like Wallyworld don't carry AO games, and it knocked the hell out of R*'s bottom line.
You can't argue with someone like that because if you start winning, he'll just change the parameters of the argument. Failing that, he'll just start spouting nonsense that sounds good when the media takes it out of context. Rather than fight a useless battle, R* resorts to their stock-in-trade, parody... which is what the GTA series has essentially been since day one.
Bottom line, "normal" societial issues in the damaged area will be suspended until things are under control. That's the way it has always been and the only way thing work. These "volunteers" want to place braodcasting equipment in a damaged building from which they will broadcast whatever they want to people in the damaged area?
Just FYI, the article talks about people looking to set up a low power FM station in the Astrodome in Houston, TX. To the best of my knowledge, this building is entirely undamaged, as is the vast majority of the greater Houston area.
My *biggest* pet peeve with Outlook is with HTML formatted e-mails that use that stupid vertical, blue line to delineate quoted text. There is absolutely no way to split that line, so you can break apart the original text and respond to the parts individually. I usually wrestle with it for about a minute, then get fed up and top post.
It's funny, Richard Hoagland is on Coast-to-Coast AM pretty regularly. (What can I say? I'm an insomniac and it's an entertaining show.) On the radio, he sounds very smart and usually quite rational. The web site, on the other hand, is so kooky it's almost hard to believe that it's written by the same person. He seems to be extremely fond of zooming waaay in on heavily compressed JPEG images and imagining all kinds of artificial formations in the compression artifacts. I wonder sometimes if he really believes all this stuff, or if it's just a ploy to get attention and presumably bring in $$$.
FWIW, his own biography says he was a museum curator, a NASA consultant (whatever that means), and a science advisor to CBS news. It's a more impressive resumé than your garden variety conspiracy nut, but he wasn't exactly a "big wig at NASA".
Heh... as a GM owner for the better part of the last 11 years, I can tell you it will be well past 2008 before I will place 100% trust in any auto-pilot designed by GM.
Actually, a typical modern SUV *is* more efficient than a truck of a similar size from 40 or 50 years ago. The main problem with SUVs is their rampant popularity. Before the SUV craze, trucks were primarily work vehicles and made up only a small fraction of the vehicles on the road.
Most likely other MP3 player makes will gleefuly jump on to fill in the void left my iTunes's demise, so Apple would be the only one burnt. Some shyster would also likely start a class-action suit against Apple on behalf of people who have bought iPods recently and suddenly don't have a source of music for them.
I don't follow... Even if you're right and ITMS were to go under (which I still don't think is likely), an iPod would still be able to play MP3's just like any other player, no? Worst case, you could still rip MP3's from your own CDs, just like we used to back in the old days.
What Apple really needs to do is tell these record labels to go screw. Let them pull their catalogs off of ITMS. Do you think the legions of iTunes users are all going to stampede out and start buying CDs again?
If they're really lucky, these record labels won't see a further drop in their CD sales. Plus they won't have the revenue stream from Apple anymore. They'll come crawling back in no time.
I've heard a lot of whining like this from the business community lately. I saw an article about Costco a while back, and their revolutionary practice of (gasp!) treating their employees like human beings. In the article, some fund manager was complaining that "it's almost better to be an employee than to be a stockholder." Unfortunately, they didn't ask him to elaborate on why this would be a bad thing.
I say "half" as an estimation--we female types wouldn't succumb to such trickery.
Ha! Of course not, all it takes to control you female types is a shiny rock.
Exactly! My gut reaction is if I have to go buy some expensive, DRM-enabled monitor to view your "premium content", you can take your "premium content" and blow it out your ass. It's not like missing out on the latest poorly-scripted, badly-acted, special effects extravaganza is going to lower my quality of life any.
Oh my God, you're right!! BAN THE INTERNET NOW!! People, think of the children! Think of the kittens!
I know when I got nailed (I had launched IE just to take a quick look at a page that wasn't rendering right in Firefox), a dialog popped up asking if I wanted to install such-and-such program. I'm not sure if it was Javascript or ActiveX or what, but the impression I got is that it was something that would have installed silently prior to the latest round of security updates.
As it was, I knew what it was, and reached to click the "No" button. Somehow I missed and hit "Yes" instead. I realized what I had done an instant after I released the mouse button. It took me four hours to rip that fucker out completely.
One click was all it took, although this was quite a while ago. I don't know if the latest security updates make it harder to do by accident. All I know is if a page doesn't render in Firefox, I don't need to see it.
He very well could be modifying the hooker system
There isn't much animation involved in the hooker sequence. Basically, the suspension of whatever car you're in just bounces. In GTA3 and (I think) Vice City, you could actually get the camera to flip around to see inside the car, and your character and the hooker are just sitting side by side not moving, while the car hops around like a lowrider. I'm sure it's the same in San Andreas, except they fix the camera at a low, rear angle, so there's no way to see inside the car.
Well, there's always that guy who stands outside the bus station...