Playing HL2 can also cause epileptic seizures or carpal tunnel in addition to the nausea. Just like every other game out there can...
As can porn...but I don't really think that will stop anyone
Um, please get off your soapbox. Guess what, my bet is that these systems will not be available in Canada for a while either. Why? Because the US and Canada are just too big to rationalize the investment in cellular technologies. Have you ever been to Korea or Japan? Do you know how many people there are in a very small area? Do you realize that the major investments in internet and cellular techonologies are the fixed costs, and the reason they are so profitable in these places is because with the same fixed costs, you can serve a lot more people and thus make a lot more money in Seoul than you can in Topeka.
Of course not, you just wanted to take an excuse to get on your little soap box. You came to America knowing what you wanted to see before you ever stepped foot off the plane, and of course you saw it. I know my country isn't perfect, and I don't like the way it's going, but you sir are just a pompous ass. Guess what, in Canada they have free health care, but you will also see a lot of cars from the 70s, and no 3G phones. What is your point? Is Canada on your hate list as well?
interactive. The biggest losers in the whole TiVo thing have to be scripted pre-recorded shows. News shows quickly lose a lot of their value after they are aired. Aside from a few select games, almost all sports shows lose their value after the game is over, the only shows that don't are shows such as sitcoms etc.
Hopefully, people will see the insanity of this law and not pass it, which will mean that the distribution methods for scripted shows will either have to evolve or die. I personally hope they evolve into distributing the shows directly to the public via an iTunes like service. That way I no longer have to pay for cable just to see the few shows that I enjoy; I can purchase them directly. The producers of these shows no longer have to be encumbered by the increasingly draconian regulations of the FCC. Just imagine what South Park could do if they weren't worried about being fined.
Well, to further your argument, the guy seems to think that the wide availibility of porn will ultimately lead to addictions(the whole, you have to find some guy with it schpiel), but the same argument fails with coffee. I can go down any mainstreet in the country and probably find 10 places to get a cup of coffee. But must I drink it because it's there? No, just like people who want to avoid porn will avoid porn, regardless of it's availability.
Gah, what ever happened to personal responsibility in this country. Whenever there is a potential vice, it seems people scream for the government to get rid of the source, thus destroying the temptation I suppose. Geez, come one people, get a grip, if you don't want children doing drugs/sex/porn/whatever, be a PARENT! If my mother could raise 3 kids alone on about $35k/yr and have us all grow up to be college educated productive members of society, I fail to see how 2 parents with a combined income that stretches well into the 6 figures cannot do it.
It will be interesting to see how Sony and Nintendo plan to play the strong Yen. Nintendo's first ever loss came largely as a result of the weak dollar, and that was when Nintendo did not have any major hardware rollouts(ssoftware has a very small marginal cost to produce). The Yen has been relatively stable recently(varying from 110-105 to the dollar), but there is very little to suggest that the dollar will grow stronger any time soon. Quite the contrary, because of the huge trade and budget deficits that show no signs of abating, there is a very real chance the dollar could take a plunge, and Sony and Nintendo could wind up losing a lot of money for each American sale...
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Till of course the robot animals rebel against their remotely-controlled-by-a-drunk-hick-shotgun-wieldi ng-robot-overlords. Then where will humanity be?
of law suits gone too far. It seems recently the trend has been to blame the school for whatever trouble a kid causes, and since the school may have difficulty tracking down individual students and whether or not they were on campus, the school may very well end up being responsible. At least this way the schools can say definitievely whether or not someone came(provided they actually still have their rfid, w hich may be a big assumption)
No, you will get a bunch of sarcastic mods. I'll probably get modded down for this but mods always do the opposite of what you tell them. For pointing that out I deserve a +1 insightful.
And that is how you create a moderation singularity!
While I wouldn't recommend they use it as an end source, it may be very helpful to help them get started. While the articles are not 100% accurate(as the Alexander Hamilton example points out), they can point people in the right direction, and often times the articles have good sources/external links the students should investigate.
Well, from my personal observation, while there has been no decrease in spam, I have been noticing a diversification in the scams they are selling. Spammers are moving away from mortgages, get rich quick schemes, and pills(though they still are invested heavily in that area) to areas previously dominated by real life grifters-fake merchandise(esp. Rolex watches), "free" tvs, ipods, etc, and it also seems prostitution.
Sorry thing is, the same people will probably fall for these as fell for this guy's scam.
I know this is a joke but as far as I know, Wal-Mart does not collect individual customer names for most purchases, there is no customer card thing like there is at a lot of supermarkets. I suppose they could collect data via credit cards, but I doubt that is legal.....
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this says otherwise, of course I am not talking about the address, but the message itself. I have tried sending people messages using the standard mac input method, and it doesn't work through yahoo, but it does work in mail. So obviously somethign is wrong on Yahoo's end.
overrated mods cannot be judged in meta-mod. Thus, it allows mods to push agendas without losing mod points, which is why overrated/underrated should either be banned or allowed to be judged in meta moderation
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gmail supporst non-western characters I just found out. Yahoo does not(despite the fact that yahoo.co.jp for example does). Something to think about in an increasingly interconnected world.
I think a much more interesting matchup would be Bono versus Queen Latifa in a steel cage deathmatch. I wonder what the Vegas odds would be on that fight?
Just a question about trademarks, so although I cannot sell gateway branded computers, could I sell gateway branded pancakes? Are trademarks valid only in the industry they were registered for?
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Not when they are preserved for future generations
Playing HL2 can also cause epileptic seizures or carpal tunnel in addition to the nausea. Just like every other game out there can...
As can porn...but I don't really think that will stop anyone
Best career book you can buy
Because the itching from getting the clap from a sorority girl is only simulated in the video game.
Um, RTFA, the tampon squeezers are actually looking for STDs, unless The Clap really helps you get your rocks off......
this is all you need
Um, please get off your soapbox. Guess what, my bet is that these systems will not be available in Canada for a while either. Why? Because the US and Canada are just too big to rationalize the investment in cellular technologies. Have you ever been to Korea or Japan? Do you know how many people there are in a very small area? Do you realize that the major investments in internet and cellular techonologies are the fixed costs, and the reason they are so profitable in these places is because with the same fixed costs, you can serve a lot more people and thus make a lot more money in Seoul than you can in Topeka.
Of course not, you just wanted to take an excuse to get on your little soap box. You came to America knowing what you wanted to see before you ever stepped foot off the plane, and of course you saw it. I know my country isn't perfect, and I don't like the way it's going, but you sir are just a pompous ass. Guess what, in Canada they have free health care, but you will also see a lot of cars from the 70s, and no 3G phones. What is your point? Is Canada on your hate list as well?
Yeah, this article doesn't even have the same /. charm, I mean the submitter didn't even spell lose loose, jeez...people these days....
interactive. The biggest losers in the whole TiVo thing have to be scripted pre-recorded shows. News shows quickly lose a lot of their value after they are aired. Aside from a few select games, almost all sports shows lose their value after the game is over, the only shows that don't are shows such as sitcoms etc.
Hopefully, people will see the insanity of this law and not pass it, which will mean that the distribution methods for scripted shows will either have to evolve or die. I personally hope they evolve into distributing the shows directly to the public via an iTunes like service. That way I no longer have to pay for cable just to see the few shows that I enjoy; I can purchase them directly. The producers of these shows no longer have to be encumbered by the increasingly draconian regulations of the FCC. Just imagine what South Park could do if they weren't worried about being fined.
Wow, a girl...on /. talking about internet porn...
Please marry me!
Well, to further your argument, the guy seems to think that the wide availibility of porn will ultimately lead to addictions(the whole, you have to find some guy with it schpiel), but the same argument fails with coffee. I can go down any mainstreet in the country and probably find 10 places to get a cup of coffee. But must I drink it because it's there? No, just like people who want to avoid porn will avoid porn, regardless of it's availability.
Gah, what ever happened to personal responsibility in this country. Whenever there is a potential vice, it seems people scream for the government to get rid of the source, thus destroying the temptation I suppose. Geez, come one people, get a grip, if you don't want children doing drugs/sex/porn/whatever, be a PARENT! If my mother could raise 3 kids alone on about $35k/yr and have us all grow up to be college educated productive members of society, I fail to see how 2 parents with a combined income that stretches well into the 6 figures cannot do it.
welcome our new Opteron-reviewing dog overlords.
It will be interesting to see how Sony and Nintendo plan to play the strong Yen. Nintendo's first ever loss came largely as a result of the weak dollar, and that was when Nintendo did not have any major hardware rollouts(ssoftware has a very small marginal cost to produce). The Yen has been relatively stable recently(varying from 110-105 to the dollar), but there is very little to suggest that the dollar will grow stronger any time soon. Quite the contrary, because of the huge trade and budget deficits that show no signs of abating, there is a very real chance the dollar could take a plunge, and Sony and Nintendo could wind up losing a lot of money for each American sale...
Till of course the robot animals rebel against their remotely-controlled-by-a-drunk-hick-shotgun-wieldi ng-robot-overlords. Then where will humanity be?
of law suits gone too far. It seems recently the trend has been to blame the school for whatever trouble a kid causes, and since the school may have difficulty tracking down individual students and whether or not they were on campus, the school may very well end up being responsible. At least this way the schools can say definitievely whether or not someone came(provided they actually still have their rfid, w hich may be a big assumption)
No, you will get a bunch of sarcastic mods. I'll probably get modded down for this but mods always do the opposite of what you tell them. For pointing that out I deserve a +1 insightful.
And that is how you create a moderation singularity!
While I wouldn't recommend they use it as an end source, it may be very helpful to help them get started. While the articles are not 100% accurate(as the Alexander Hamilton example points out), they can point people in the right direction, and often times the articles have good sources/external links the students should investigate.
ack! It's not smilk, it's "Malk", now with vitamin R!
Well, from my personal observation, while there has been no decrease in spam, I have been noticing a diversification in the scams they are selling. Spammers are moving away from mortgages, get rich quick schemes, and pills(though they still are invested heavily in that area) to areas previously dominated by real life grifters-fake merchandise(esp. Rolex watches), "free" tvs, ipods, etc, and it also seems prostitution.
Sorry thing is, the same people will probably fall for these as fell for this guy's scam.
I know this is a joke but as far as I know, Wal-Mart does not collect individual customer names for most purchases, there is no customer card thing like there is at a lot of supermarkets. I suppose they could collect data via credit cards, but I doubt that is legal.....
this says otherwise, of course I am not talking about the address, but the message itself. I have tried sending people messages using the standard mac input method, and it doesn't work through yahoo, but it does work in mail. So obviously somethign is wrong on Yahoo's end.
overrated mods cannot be judged in meta-mod. Thus, it allows mods to push agendas without losing mod points, which is why overrated/underrated should either be banned or allowed to be judged in meta moderation
gmail supporst non-western characters I just found out. Yahoo does not(despite the fact that yahoo.co.jp for example does). Something to think about in an increasingly interconnected world.
I think a much more interesting matchup would be Bono versus Queen Latifa in a steel cage deathmatch. I wonder what the Vegas odds would be on that fight?
Just a question about trademarks, so although I cannot sell gateway branded computers, could I sell gateway branded pancakes? Are trademarks valid only in the industry they were registered for?