i have been giving out the number for the denver area yellow cab for a couple years now. only one person has said anything. most people just think it is cool that my phone number is all 7's.
convincing grandma to sign up so she doesn't get so many "buy this shit now" calls.
you may have hit the nail on the head. my uncle-in-law has to monitor all the mail that his aunt gets because she will write a $20 check to every single charity that sends her a letter asking for money. word about her got out, she gets a large stack of charity solicitations almost every day.
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I like the idea of an AI reacting to the subtleties of the map.
that is a good idea. i have always been annoyed how the AI would cross into my area, find a single open tile where the influence of my towns convereged but didnt cover and build a city. it would be like me moving to france and starting a city in the country and considering that city part of the u.s.. i did use this against the other civs since my culture was often much stronger. so my question:
will the other cultures in civ 4 truly respect my borders and not build in the 'middle' of my 'country'?
the bends has to do with nitrogen in your blood stream. when you depressureize too fast bubbles of it form. very painful i guess. causing one to double over, or bend, in pain. that is what i recollect anyway.
pressure is a big deal because the water (or atmosphere) pushes in on the body. the body in turn exerts an equal force in the opposite direction. it is conceivable to bring deep sea critters up if it is down slow enough. when deep sea fishing the eyes of the catch are often 'bugged out' because of the loss of external pressure.
i agree, but you have to live with the consequences of violating that law. What Parks and King did woke up america. unfortunately i would venture to say that most americans dont care about legalizing drugs because they just see people who want to get high instead of those who have a real medical use for it.
i my opinion, the drug war is a major failing of federal law. the feds cant easily say 'we goofed' but california (or any state) can. then other states can look at each other and really see what does and doesnt work. like a bunch of little testing grounds for laws. nothing at the federal level can be treated that way, at least not easily. the feds must flex their power by stepping on the states when they want to legalize medical pot, doing otherwise would be to admit a mistake.
free speech zones are a bad idea, but i think they are a response to protesters who block doors, sidewalks and generally disrupt other peoples daily routines. many protesters seem to think it is their right to stop me from doing what i want to do becuase they disagree with me. if protesters would respect the rights of others to disagree and go about their business, we probably wouldnt have them.
i gave ubuntu a try on my notebook. yes i am a n00b.
download 'hoary hegdehog 64 version', burn to disk.
put disk in drive. nice screen pops up. some text. hangs 10 minutes. power down.
try again. system starts to setup. not sure about file system, try one. input username. input password. oops, keyboard no longer works. skip that.
can't install wi-fi nic. skip that. list pops up, a little confusing.
system installs. first boot cant access hardware clock through 'any known method' oh well i dont need the time anyway.
login screen. login.
check time, wrong, (obviously) set to correct time. (later boot into windows and see that my clock is 5 hours off, i thought ubuntu couldnt find the clock)
try to get wi-fi nic going. learn i need ndis wrapper. not included in distro. wtf?
search web via ethernet for ndis wrapper. no dice. no wi-fi.
shutdown. load up a few day later. keyboard does not work. reboot. no keyboard. reboot, keyboard works.
search for unreal 2k4 for linux. system slows as i use it.
download unreal. go to install. nothing happens. folder now empty. reopen folder. unreal is back! try a couple other versions. no dice. shutdown.
boot up system. no keyboard. reboot, works. mess around for a while. system slows, shutdown.
decide to try again with october realease when it arrives.
the crew could wiggle their toes in their shoes to press something. another more realistic idea might by to have cctv directly from the cabin to the cockpit. see something suspicious or any interuption in feed and you know something is up. plus something crazy like a reinforced cockpit door.
if it were a wristband i would press it anyway if a hijacker told me to put my hands up. i would take the risk to save people on the ground. odds are the hijackers dont have a gun or anything else too dangerous. besides that, i really dont think a plane is going to be successfully hijacked for a looooooooong time. flight 93 is evidence for that.
in my area it is $10/month. i dont understand the reasoning. even with the 'bundle discount' i still would pay more money for internet and tv. dont penalize me for not wanting tv. i will just go elsewhere when i find a better deal.
'God' if you will, is pushing them down," said Gabriel Burdett, who holds degrees in education, applied Scripture, and physics from Oral Roberts University.
from what i recall of quicktime it is silver with little horizontal lines all over, ie. the brush marks. i could go as far as 'polished metal' for office 12. 'brushed metal' is considerably more tactile.
anyway, to paraphrase many of my instructors in school: "steal ruthlessly and make mo betta".
The fuckers are setting up schools to teach young politicians how to use the bible to make lawmaker-type decisions. If that isn't the most absurd, dangerous and stupidest thing
whether you want to admit it or not, everyone has some sort of ethical strategy for making choices in their lives. why is the evangelical's strategy less valid than yours? why are their ideas so dangerous? your ideas are not? just because you disagree with them doesnt make their ideas dangerous. 'tolerance' in the u.s. appears to last only so long as everyone agree with those who decide what is 'right'.
i have to agree with the yank here. i have a high school diploma and am at least the second most valuable person in our 5 employee office - right behind the girl who had a kid in high school.
we have recently hired two people with masters degrees and let them go because they cant do squat. that said i am working on my bachelors/masters since i have run into too many people who dismiss me for not having a college diploma. let me mention that college is a game. it goes both ways, but the majority of people -clients- still look for the sheep skin.
well taken. how boring for the population at large would it be to watch a silent space fight void of any recognizable manuevers, sounds and explosions?
i once read a story in high school literature class where two planets were at war. both had fully automated attack/defense systems. as a result (not sure why anymore) neither could get through the others defenses. until the military learned about a guy who could pilot a fighter without computer aid and could also could do math in his head - apparantly a lost skill. others were trained by him. his squadron then broke through the enemy defenses and were able to turn the war to their planets favor. moral of the story: we need to remember how to do things the low-tech way as well.
i actually got about eight months of aol completely free off a free trial / unlimited hours disk because they would keep saying "give it another month on us and reconsider." then the broadband network was finally finished...
true on the roaring and whooshing......but doesnt it make sense to have them manuever in space the same as in the atmosphere? that way a pilot doesnt have to think about what medium he is in. i think it would be easier for the pilot if both are the same.
What would your natural reaction be if an Iraqi army was occupying Washington D.C.?
well, if my government had a propensity to kill dissidents and the liberating country allowed asshats to say stupid things like "go assassinate that leader over there", or "yeah, lets turn the mideast into glass", i would be happy about it.
"All elected officals must solely use PUBLIC transportaion during the course of their term."
If you want a government of the people, by the people and for the people, you can't be afraid of mingling with them can you?
sorry, this changed when kennedy was assassinated. do you really want our government officials open to attacks from any nutjob? i know i cant wait for the fun that will occur here when our elected officials keep getting killed because they have to ride the bus.
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i concur. but what is the price point at which copyright infringement becomes acceptable? $100 thousand, $10 million, $20 million, etc?
i have been giving out the number for the denver area yellow cab for a couple years now. only one person has said anything. most people just think it is cool that my phone number is all 7's.
you may have hit the nail on the head. my uncle-in-law has to monitor all the mail that his aunt gets because she will write a $20 check to every single charity that sends her a letter asking for money. word about her got out, she gets a large stack of charity solicitations almost every day.
that is a good idea. i have always been annoyed how the AI would cross into my area, find a single open tile where the influence of my towns convereged but didnt cover and build a city. it would be like me moving to france and starting a city in the country and considering that city part of the u.s.. i did use this against the other civs since my culture was often much stronger. so my question:
will the other cultures in civ 4 truly respect my borders and not build in the 'middle' of my 'country'?
pressure is a big deal because the water (or atmosphere) pushes in on the body. the body in turn exerts an equal force in the opposite direction. it is conceivable to bring deep sea critters up if it is down slow enough. when deep sea fishing the eyes of the catch are often 'bugged out' because of the loss of external pressure.
all the best wizards smoke ganja too...
i agree, but you have to live with the consequences of violating that law. What Parks and King did woke up america. unfortunately i would venture to say that most americans dont care about legalizing drugs because they just see people who want to get high instead of those who have a real medical use for it.
i my opinion, the drug war is a major failing of federal law. the feds cant easily say 'we goofed' but california (or any state) can. then other states can look at each other and really see what does and doesnt work. like a bunch of little testing grounds for laws. nothing at the federal level can be treated that way, at least not easily. the feds must flex their power by stepping on the states when they want to legalize medical pot, doing otherwise would be to admit a mistake.
free speech zones are a bad idea, but i think they are a response to protesters who block doors, sidewalks and generally disrupt other peoples daily routines. many protesters seem to think it is their right to stop me from doing what i want to do becuase they disagree with me. if protesters would respect the rights of others to disagree and go about their business, we probably wouldnt have them.
no its not, there are plenty of ex-police in the states that are against the war on drugs. i am against the drug war too. why isnt Milton Friedman in jail? it just happens to be illegal to distribute marijuana seeds, conspire to distribute marijuana and conspire to engage in money laundering here.
download 'hoary hegdehog 64 version', burn to disk.
put disk in drive. nice screen pops up. some text. hangs 10 minutes. power down.
try again. system starts to setup. not sure about file system, try one. input username. input password. oops, keyboard no longer works. skip that.
can't install wi-fi nic. skip that. list pops up, a little confusing.
system installs. first boot cant access hardware clock through 'any known method' oh well i dont need the time anyway.
login screen. login.
check time, wrong, (obviously) set to correct time. (later boot into windows and see that my clock is 5 hours off, i thought ubuntu couldnt find the clock)
try to get wi-fi nic going. learn i need ndis wrapper. not included in distro. wtf?
search web via ethernet for ndis wrapper. no dice. no wi-fi.
shutdown. load up a few day later. keyboard does not work. reboot. no keyboard. reboot, keyboard works.
search for unreal 2k4 for linux. system slows as i use it.
download unreal. go to install. nothing happens. folder now empty. reopen folder. unreal is back! try a couple other versions. no dice. shutdown.
boot up system. no keyboard. reboot, works. mess around for a while. system slows, shutdown.
decide to try again with october realease when it arrives.
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that is totally cool. i need a DVD player that plays old VHS tapes.
if it were a wristband i would press it anyway if a hijacker told me to put my hands up. i would take the risk to save people on the ground. odds are the hijackers dont have a gun or anything else too dangerous. besides that, i really dont think a plane is going to be successfully hijacked for a looooooooong time. flight 93 is evidence for that.
in my area it is $10/month. i dont understand the reasoning. even with the 'bundle discount' i still would pay more money for internet and tv. dont penalize me for not wanting tv. i will just go elsewhere when i find a better deal.
'God' if you will, is pushing them down," said Gabriel Burdett, who holds degrees in education, applied Scripture, and physics from Oral Roberts University.
anyway, to paraphrase many of my instructors in school: "steal ruthlessly and make mo betta".
seriously, that is hardly brushed metal. this is a silver/grey w/ a gradient. like the xp color scheme, only better.
whether you want to admit it or not, everyone has some sort of ethical strategy for making choices in their lives. why is the evangelical's strategy less valid than yours? why are their ideas so dangerous? your ideas are not? just because you disagree with them doesnt make their ideas dangerous. 'tolerance' in the u.s. appears to last only so long as everyone agree with those who decide what is 'right'.
everyone was a n00b once, even you. more os choices out there means a better product.
every good slashdotter knows that a gods power is a direct function of the number of worshipers said god has. d&d 101 man...
we have recently hired two people with masters degrees and let them go because they cant do squat. that said i am working on my bachelors/masters since i have run into too many people who dismiss me for not having a college diploma. let me mention that college is a game. it goes both ways, but the majority of people -clients- still look for the sheep skin.
i once read a story in high school literature class where two planets were at war. both had fully automated attack/defense systems. as a result (not sure why anymore) neither could get through the others defenses. until the military learned about a guy who could pilot a fighter without computer aid and could also could do math in his head - apparantly a lost skill. others were trained by him. his squadron then broke through the enemy defenses and were able to turn the war to their planets favor. moral of the story: we need to remember how to do things the low-tech way as well.
i actually got about eight months of aol completely free off a free trial / unlimited hours disk because they would keep saying "give it another month on us and reconsider." then the broadband network was finally finished...
true on the roaring and whooshing... ...but doesnt it make sense to have them manuever in space the same as in the atmosphere? that way a pilot doesnt have to think about what medium he is in. i think it would be easier for the pilot if both are the same.
well, if my government had a propensity to kill dissidents and the liberating country allowed asshats to say stupid things like "go assassinate that leader over there", or "yeah, lets turn the mideast into glass", i would be happy about it.
"All elected officals must solely use PUBLIC transportaion during the course of their term."
If you want a government of the people, by the people and for the people, you can't be afraid of mingling with them can you?
sorry, this changed when kennedy was assassinated. do you really want our government officials open to attacks from any nutjob? i know i cant wait for the fun that will occur here when our elected officials keep getting killed because they have to ride the bus.