If you like fighting games and don't mind the gray area of expired beta abandon-ware M.U.G.E.N. and it's still updated clones are for you. It has downloadable (sp?) characters from almost every major fighting game and many from Anime and non fighting games as well. Just don't look for impressive computer controlled opponents or a whole lot of cross package balance and you'll do fine.
Yes... Yes it is.
Or at least so says the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons AKA "Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects" Protocol #1 would be the main reason Flechette Shotgun rounds were never implemented, the Aluminum darts didn't show up enough on X-Rays and Protocol #3, That's the one that outlaws anti-personnel weapons that act primarily through heat or fire, will be the reason this dies in it's crib. BTW Protocol #2 is the anti-land mine bit, #4 is the anti-blinding lasers bit and #5 is about unexploded ordnance and bomblets but the USA didn't sign those parts.
Now stop being a pretentious smart ass, you aren't any good at it, you need to be smart first.
American Mental health care works like this, get sent to hospital, by family or cops, get diagnosed and if you are too far gone to understand that the doctors want to help you then you check yourself out and go on your merry way.
Requiring anyone to take meds requires that person to HAVE them and requiring people to have medicine means GIVING it to those who can't afford it and thats socialized medicine and that's the devil or something, I don't claim to understand it
In short you're right the mental health system in America doesn't work.
Forgive me if I'm mistaken but isn't the freeloading just Market Economics at work?
As I see it the weakness of the product has been demonstrated and now it's our turn to make it unprofitable thus encouraging a stronger product.
To sum it up "It's not theft it's a boycott in reverse."
If nature did not mean for us to have anal sex then there wouldn't be a natural sink trap, in the form of the Sigmoid Colon, keeping things from going in too deep without serious effort. Unless you think that there was some evolutionary imperative to defend the inner colon against intrusion that couldn't be accomplished with the buttocks and 2 sphincter muscles... Just food for thought;)
P.S. If someone DOSE know of some reason for this I would love to hear it as I am mostly just talking out my ass </Pun>
I can't agree more.
I just two weeks ago bought a Macbook and It's small enough for me.
Making a laptop JUST smaller is a feat, STRIPPING a laptop bare and making it smaller is simple, RAPING a laptop of all it's features, except ram! blah blah blah including removable drive thumb drives blah blah blah and charging more than the larger featured model is criminal. Even If it does run OS X 10.5 And I'm an Apple fanboy, this could get ugly.
LOL
Seriously Have you READ this damn law you are so afraid of?
Here you go http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:H.R.418:
All the things you are talking about would require retailers and others to you know do more than just, you know, look at the birth date on the card!
Do you now have to swipe it each time you use a credit card? Why not...not an infringement...just 'proves' you are the person on the credit card. Well number one upgrading EVERY credit card scanner in America would be one of those "Unfunded Mandates" that Republicans hate so much, and no we couldn't afford to fund it even if we wanted to now that we've spent so much on this war(or whatever you call it when lots of people shoot at each other).
ALSO
Bank accounts, credit cards, and even jobs that don't pay in cash or barter require your SSN so anything you do with money has never been private.
My money pays my internet bill so they know what my net habits are down to the specific poses of porn models I linger on the most.
oh and the pennies have RFID chips in 'em and Andrew Jackson's eye catches fire if you microwave a $20 and the NSA has enough computer power to decrypt all the PGP'ish email and SSH sessions it wants IN REAL TIME!
In conclusion the answer is "Yes the situation you proposed is THAT far fetched" the ability of a Police officer to swipe a card and see that someone has 2 DUI's on the other coast is not a bad thing.
In Iowa we have had most of the requirements of the Real ID act met for the past 10 years!
IOWA!
You know full of corn, cattle, caucuses, Caucasians, conservative Christians and right wing republican wing-nut farmers?
Yea I'm afraid of Big Brother, I've even lost sleep about it, but you know what there are such things as GOOD and/or NON-REPRESSIVE laws.
"Try a little optimism for once" that one is from my Shrink to me and now I share it with you.
P.S.
Who is to stop the next administration from adding a 'little more' functionality to the system? How about every thing in the Constitution since it says that the President is only ONE OF THREE steps something needs to take to become law and in reality the Congressional delegation from California has almost as much sway over what becomes law as the President.
True the amount is small but at least if thieves break into your house they'll steal all your wiring BUT this, though you won't really be running a computer without electrical wiring (if they left the computer for some strange reason)
You forgot to also mention the brain damagingly bad documentation that passes for help in the Linux community. Next someone says Well if it's so bad why don't you contribute to the open-source documentation. And I reply Well one I have no proficiency writing readable technical documents myself AND I have no idea what to tell people to do because I can't understand the bad documentation as it exists now.
As it stands for anything that isn't "cool" or "sexy" enough to be covered step by step in some always distro specific walkthrough I simply have to read the man page and brute force my way through all the arguments I'm looking at you unzip.
All in all the Linux community seems to think like this and it's not really encouraging to someone who is just starting out in the world of Linux without a background in programming.
I have to agree that this is in no way news.
It's cool but not even remotely new, I had the Mario Bros. 3 death jingle as my system beep back 8 years ago Who dropped the ball and let this make it up here?
And Asimov wrote about this in at least two stories... one about a housewife who falls for a male humaniform robot that her husband brings home from work (name escaping me at the moment) and I think "The Bicentennial Man" also included some robot lust (there my memory of the story is failing me [probably due to having seen the awful Robin Williams movie]). Not to mention "Blade Runner", The Movie/Manga/Anime Series "Ghost in the shell" and that awful movie "A.I.". And also not to mention that people can get Sexually attached to just about anything RIGHT NOW, with or without orifices or pokey bits.
But the real story here is that this sort of pointless "Journalism" is still going on.
Is it that we still haven't progressed from "Modern Mechanix" 1930's style "Let's take a look at how Mrs. Smith will be cooking in 'The Kitchen Of Tomorrow'" stories or have we all had our brains so damaged by mass media blipverts that we need a concept jammed in the publics face every 6 months or it'll just magically erase itself from history?
I'm very sorry that I upset you with my careless coment.
I misunderstood the tone of your post.
I try to very hard not to inflict my opinions on others and even more so never to do so uninvited.
I attempt to only post on the topic of the thread and not start threads unrelated to articles.
That being said I don't understand what your opinion IP rights have to do with Slashdot Moderation.
Or what Slashdot Moderation has to do with firewalls in tanks.
Remember the rule "Don't feed the trolls" even if it is suggesting appropriate means of removing them it's still attention stoking their fire.
But I do think you are being unreasonable and just a bit paranoid.
As I understand it the mod-point system is more or less automated, so any hobbling would be a result of a conflict in your posting habits and tone of posts rather than an active denial by "The Counsel of Mod Points".
Yes I do understand your anger at Mod Point bot nets or whatever you want to call it but little can be done to prevent that in a community of programmers with strong opinions.
In a way, Hezbollah uses very modern weapons, western media, to fight the war. No use of radio? How do you think the images of bloodshed, real and staged made its way to the west? Pigeons? Yea I think Pigeons would work well enough, strap a Micro-SD card full of Jpegs and Videos to it's leg and send it merrily on it's way back to base.
Wasn't there a study comparing the data transmission speeds of Wye-Fly to ADSL?
Oh look a link http://www.notes.co.il/benbasat/5240.asp
Oh look the linked experiment was done in Israel
Just remember Windows may cause Pigeons to crash fatally...
Just a side note that you are also wrong about what would have happened with Hezbollah.
If the problems in the middle east have taught us anything it's that everyone is somebody's Brother or Father or Uncle or Nephew and that A Semite Never Forgets.
That being said if Israel splattered any group in large numbers they would find themselves totally dog piled, Western Media condemnation or not.
Not to mention routing air traffic around signal stations.
And speaking of "Splatter" how (I'll put this gently) "nature proof" are those transceivers?
Yes you can make browser updates mandatory, by simply refusing to support the old ones. ( all hail Cthulhu )
You know the same way Apple and Microsoft force you to get new computers if you want to run the "New And Improved With 25% Fewer(?) Gaping Security Holes Operating System"
But that would require organizing developers into some form of union.
Don't forget all the fun with JScript in Internet Exploder.
But seriously folks if one way or another it's gonna be a different language, just call it "Javascript+ ver.1" instead of "Javascript ver.N+1" as long as you keep the ability to run "Javascript ver.N" in the browsers I don't see whats to bitch about in making it a different language.
Ok I'll give you that Acrobat Reader is a steaming pile in Windows but you really can't say any different for Apple, I suppose that's why Apple chose to license.PDF format and integrate it into OSX.
But having used Quicktime on Windows, I keep my music on my Mac, I can say that it's at least as, and generally MORE, stable than Windows Media Player. Quick and consistent loading of inline web videos is not a feature of WMP.
And didn't we JUST get a MS branded flash compatible plugin?
Oh right http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/05/1442254
Also Apple isn't one who goes around making new and breaking old file formats, that's strictly Micrsoft territory.
Backwards compatibility is sacred in web formats and as long as they don't break backwards then cross compatibility is little problem.
Most likely a steer (castrated bull), that was knocked senseless before having it's throat slit. (they are still alive for that part. Hearts are very good pumps) Cows get slaughtered at a much later age, and are fairly tough. X *buzz*
I'm sorry wrong answer.
The correct answer is that a Piston gun applied to the back of the skull is used to obliterate the spine/brain interface thus stopping the heart and all signals to or from the brain in a fraction of a second.
We're sorry that you didn't win the car but you still get the set of GINSU Steak Knives you won earlier.
Thanks For Playing!
7 years and counting since I cut the cable on my TV... I've got to have my broadband though
I just need to find a reasonably priced digital converter box so I can watch Dr.Who on Public Television after July 2007.
Well my experience with iTunes and non-iTunes video is fairly negative.
The kicker is that some sort of glitch during an version upgrade caused it to add a video file that had been misplaced in the music library to the video playlist. After a long talk from my wife about downloading such trash, I decided to see if I could remove the file and re-add it but could not, proving that there was no restriction to PLAYING the media only to OPENING and ADDING it to the library.
1.You've obviously never been to any of the #chan/b boards like on 4chan, have you? That is what Fronter Justice ends up as, lowest (un-common) denominator content and DDOS-ing or gang-mailing anyone you don't like.
2.I'm really glad you aren't in charge of setting sentencing guidelines.
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If you like fighting games and don't mind the gray area of expired beta abandon-ware M.U.G.E.N. and it's still updated clones are for you. It has downloadable (sp?) characters from almost every major fighting game and many from Anime and non fighting games as well. Just don't look for impressive computer controlled opponents or a whole lot of cross package balance and you'll do fine.
Yes... Yes it is.
Or at least so says the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons AKA
"Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects"
Protocol #1 would be the main reason Flechette Shotgun rounds were never implemented, the Aluminum darts didn't show up enough on X-Rays and Protocol #3, That's the one that outlaws anti-personnel weapons that act primarily through heat or fire, will be the reason this dies in it's crib. BTW Protocol #2 is the anti-land mine bit, #4 is the anti-blinding lasers bit and #5 is about unexploded ordnance and bomblets but the USA didn't sign those parts.
Now stop being a pretentious smart ass, you aren't any good at it, you need to be smart first.
So he was scammed and intends to scam others (with his "water engine") to get his money back, I think the Internet stupidity is contagious.
American Mental health care works like this, get sent to hospital, by family or cops, get diagnosed and if you are too far gone to understand that the doctors want to help you then you check yourself out and go on your merry way.
Requiring anyone to take meds requires that person to HAVE them and requiring people to have medicine means GIVING it to those who can't afford it and thats socialized medicine and that's the devil or something, I don't claim to understand it
In short you're right the mental health system in America doesn't work.
Forgive me if I'm mistaken but isn't the freeloading just Market Economics at work?
As I see it the weakness of the product has been demonstrated and now it's our turn to make it unprofitable thus encouraging a stronger product.
To sum it up "It's not theft it's a boycott in reverse."
Spoken as a real and true "danger to himself and others" I think you should spend about 1 week in a room with me and no meds...
If you make it out you can tell the world if you still think that it's "all in your head"
Don't forget abducting falsely imprisoning and torturing people.
If nature did not mean for us to have anal sex then there wouldn't be a natural sink trap, in the form of the Sigmoid Colon, keeping things from going in too deep without serious effort. ;)
Unless you think that there was some evolutionary imperative to defend the inner colon against intrusion that couldn't be accomplished with the buttocks and 2 sphincter muscles...
Just food for thought
P.S. If someone DOSE know of some reason for this I would love to hear it as I am mostly just talking out my ass </Pun>
I can't agree more.
I just two weeks ago bought a Macbook and It's small enough for me.
Making a laptop JUST smaller is a feat, STRIPPING a laptop bare and making it smaller is simple, RAPING a laptop of all it's features, except ram! blah blah blah including removable drive thumb drives blah blah blah and charging more than the larger featured model is criminal.
Even If it does run OS X 10.5
And I'm an Apple fanboy, this could get ugly.
Seriously Have you READ this damn law you are so afraid of?
Here you go http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:H.R.418:
All the things you are talking about would require retailers and others to you know do more than just, you know, look at the birth date on the card!
Do you now have to swipe it each time you use a credit card? Why not...not an infringement...just 'proves' you are the person on the credit card. Well number one upgrading EVERY credit card scanner in America would be one of those "Unfunded Mandates" that Republicans hate so much, and no we couldn't afford to fund it even if we wanted to now that we've spent so much on this war(or whatever you call it when lots of people shoot at each other).
ALSO
Bank accounts, credit cards, and even jobs that don't pay in cash or barter require your SSN so anything you do with money has never been private.
My money pays my internet bill so they know what my net habits are down to the specific poses of porn models I linger on the most.
oh and the pennies have RFID chips in 'em and Andrew Jackson's eye catches fire if you microwave a $20 and the NSA has enough computer power to decrypt all the PGP'ish email and SSH sessions it wants IN REAL TIME!
In conclusion the answer is "Yes the situation you proposed is THAT far fetched" the ability of a Police officer to swipe a card and see that someone has 2 DUI's on the other coast is not a bad thing.
In Iowa we have had most of the requirements of the Real ID act met for the past 10 years!
IOWA!
You know full of corn, cattle, caucuses, Caucasians, conservative Christians and right wing republican wing-nut farmers?
Yea I'm afraid of Big Brother, I've even lost sleep about it, but you know what there are such things as GOOD and/or NON-REPRESSIVE laws.
"Try a little optimism for once" that one is from my Shrink to me and now I share it with you.
P.S.
Who is to stop the next administration from adding a 'little more' functionality to the system? How about every thing in the Constitution since it says that the President is only ONE OF THREE steps something needs to take to become law and in reality the Congressional delegation from California has almost as much sway over what becomes law as the President.
True the amount is small but at least if thieves break into your house they'll steal all your wiring BUT this, though you won't really be running a computer without electrical wiring (if they left the computer for some strange reason)
You forgot to also mention the brain damagingly bad documentation that passes for help in the Linux community.
Next someone says Well if it's so bad why don't you contribute to the open-source documentation.
And I reply Well one I have no proficiency writing readable technical documents myself AND I have no idea what to tell people to do because I can't understand the bad documentation as it exists now.
As it stands for anything that isn't "cool" or "sexy" enough to be covered step by step in some always distro specific walkthrough I simply have to read the man page and brute force my way through all the arguments I'm looking at you unzip.
All in all the Linux community seems to think like this and it's not really encouraging to someone who is just starting out in the world of Linux without a background in programming.
I have to agree that this is in no way news.
It's cool but not even remotely new, I had the Mario Bros. 3 death jingle as my system beep back 8 years ago
Who dropped the ball and let this make it up here?
But the real story here is that this sort of pointless "Journalism" is still going on.
Is it that we still haven't progressed from "Modern Mechanix" 1930's style "Let's take a look at how Mrs. Smith will be cooking in 'The Kitchen Of Tomorrow'" stories or have we all had our brains so damaged by mass media blipverts that we need a concept jammed in the publics face every 6 months or it'll just magically erase itself from history?
I'm very sorry that I upset you with my careless coment.
I misunderstood the tone of your post.
I try to very hard not to inflict my opinions on others and even more so never to do so uninvited.
I attempt to only post on the topic of the thread and not start threads unrelated to articles.
That being said I don't understand what your opinion IP rights have to do with Slashdot Moderation.
Or what Slashdot Moderation has to do with firewalls in tanks.
Remember the rule "Don't feed the trolls" even if it is suggesting appropriate means of removing them it's still attention stoking their fire.
But I do think you are being unreasonable and just a bit paranoid.
As I understand it the mod-point system is more or less automated, so any hobbling would be a result of a conflict in your posting habits and tone of posts rather than an active denial by "The Counsel of Mod Points".
Yes I do understand your anger at Mod Point bot nets or whatever you want to call it but little can be done to prevent that in a community of programmers with strong opinions.
Wasn't there a study comparing the data transmission speeds of Wye-Fly to ADSL?
Oh look a link http://www.notes.co.il/benbasat/5240.asp
Oh look the linked experiment was done in Israel Just remember Windows may cause Pigeons to crash fatally...
Just a side note that you are also wrong about what would have happened with Hezbollah.
If the problems in the middle east have taught us anything it's that everyone is somebody's Brother or Father or Uncle or Nephew and that A Semite Never Forgets.
That being said if Israel splattered any group in large numbers they would find themselves totally dog piled, Western Media condemnation or not.
Ok wow...
Both you guys must be doing something seriously wrong.
I get a block of mod points about every other week.
I thought everyone did.
Not to mention routing air traffic around signal stations.
And speaking of "Splatter" how (I'll put this gently) "nature proof" are those transceivers?
Yes you can make browser updates mandatory, by simply refusing to support the old ones. ( all hail Cthulhu )
You know the same way Apple and Microsoft force you to get new computers if you want to run the "New And Improved With 25% Fewer(?) Gaping Security Holes Operating System"
But that would require organizing developers into some form of union.
Don't forget all the fun with JScript in Internet Exploder.
But seriously folks if one way or another it's gonna be a different language, just call it "Javascript+ ver.1" instead of "Javascript ver.N+1" as long as you keep the ability to run "Javascript ver.N" in the browsers I don't see whats to bitch about in making it a different language.
Ok I'll give you that Acrobat Reader is a steaming pile in Windows but you really can't say any different for Apple, I suppose that's why Apple chose to license .PDF format and integrate it into OSX.
But having used Quicktime on Windows, I keep my music on my Mac, I can say that it's at least as, and generally MORE, stable than Windows Media Player. Quick and consistent loading of inline web videos is not a feature of WMP.
And didn't we JUST get a MS branded flash compatible plugin?
Oh right http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/05/1442254
Also Apple isn't one who goes around making new and breaking old file formats, that's strictly Micrsoft territory.
Backwards compatibility is sacred in web formats and as long as they don't break backwards then cross compatibility is little problem.
The correct answer is that a Piston gun applied to the back of the skull is used to obliterate the spine/brain interface thus stopping the heart and all signals to or from the brain in a fraction of a second.
We're sorry that you didn't win the car but you still get the set of GINSU Steak Knives you won earlier.
Thanks For Playing!
7 years and counting since I cut the cable on my TV... I've got to have my broadband though
I just need to find a reasonably priced digital converter box so I can watch Dr.Who on Public Television after July 2007.
Well my experience with iTunes and non-iTunes video is fairly negative.
The kicker is that some sort of glitch during an version upgrade caused it to add a video file that had been misplaced in the music library to the video playlist. After a long talk from my wife about downloading such trash, I decided to see if I could remove the file and re-add it but could not, proving that there was no restriction to PLAYING the media only to OPENING and ADDING it to the library.
1.You've obviously never been to any of the #chan /b boards like on 4chan, have you? That is what Fronter Justice ends up as, lowest (un-common) denominator content and DDOS-ing or gang-mailing anyone you don't like.
2.I'm really glad you aren't in charge of setting sentencing guidelines.