I agree with this. Spamming has gotten so out of hand that the only way an automated system can work is by having outrageous filters in place. This has the potential to prevent legit senders from ever reaching you.
If the penalty was raised and enforced, say by making spamming a felony offense, I'd bet that a lot of those problems would go away.
With Halo 2 and Everquest 2 launched today, what happened to Firefox 1.0? It was supposed to be released today as well, yet no sign of it on mozilla.org.
Anyone know anything about this?
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Halo just seems to be hype since I haven't seen anything unique or interesting from it so far.
On the other hand, I still play UT (which "pwns" IMHO)and even games of Duke Nukem 3D every now and then.
-Wren
You'll be missing out then.
OGG is fine, but I'll be sticking to MP3 and MP3 Pro for the forseeable future. Regardless of what anyone thinks of those formats, they are the defacto standard, supported by everything and offer good compression with good sound quality.
Quite frankly, I don't see what's in the hype of OGG's supposedly having better sound quality. In my opinion, MP3's have better sound quality with less tinniness.
I suggest that you don't go outside or drive then.
If you work in a bar, that is the choice you have made. People don't go to bars to get healthy. Don't like it, quit and find another job.
A friend of mine stomped out a newer model BMW 740's windshield with only his boot.
An F-16's cockpit can survive a seagull at 400-knots, but costs approximately 1 million U.S. dollars to make.
I find the sledgehammer BMW claim to be very difficult to believe because of those facts.
What I mean is the Athlon XP provides similar performance to a P4 and they're both 32-bit machines.
This is how I've always seen the comparisons...
Intel 8086 (manufactured by AMD) vs NEC V20
Intel 80286 (manufactured by AMD) vs NEC V30
Intel 80386 vs AMD 80386
Intel 80486 vs AMD 80486
Intel Pentium vs AMD K5
Intel Pentium Pro vs AMD K6
Intel Pentium 2 vs AMD K6-2
Intel Pentium 3 vs AMD K6-3
Intel Pentium 4 vs AMD Athlon
Intel ??? vs AMD Athlon 64
Intel Itanium vs AMD Opteron
Demographic information is not difficult to obtain.
Other companies like Namco and Nintendo have produced classic/collector edition games that did well.
I think you are completely wrong about the reasons that Sierra turned this down.
Sorry, I had my original response set to HTML formatted without formatting, doh. Here it is...
"What is my prejudice? That women shouldn't show their naked bodies for money?"
Precisely. If one is inclined to show their body, whether for money or not, doesn that automatically label them a bad or immoral person? I don't believe that it does.
"Fine, I'm prejudiced. I'm not requiring you to join with me in this antiquated, prosaic ideology of sexual "suppression.""
The funny thing is that you say that with hints of derision. One could certainly look at sexual suppression as being an outdated and archaic form of control and censorship. And, yes, I do fully understand that many past or "antiquated" social groups have at one point or another, embraced sexual freedom. I'm not stating that this is any type of new sexual revelation (or revolution depending on who you speak to), it's no different, nor something to be frowned upon simply because it's not your cup of tea.
"But I think you have a far stronger prejudice here which you are projecting--that our sexuality has no boundaries, and thus no room for deviation. Yet there isn't a single pair of eyes reading Slashdot that doesn't think at least some act of sexuality is perverse. There are boundaries, and I very much believe that selling your own sexuality, be it the act or the photographict depictions of the act, is damaging to both the viewer and the model. You can draw the line at pedastasy and necrophilia, I'll draw it sex without proper emotional context."
Sexual boundaries, or boundaries in relation to any topic is subjective to the individual. For you to make a blanket statement asserting that your view is more correct or moral is quite selfish. For some, it's a way to pay the bills, for others, it's the experience of it all. How is selling images of your naked body fundamentally any different than selling images of landscapes? Both are natural, both are beautiful.
Personally, I enjoy sex without emotional context on some occasions. It doesn't mean that I am incapable of conveying and nurturing more connected sexual relations. It is also neither necessarily disrespectful nor illegal. Thus drawing a comparison with your emotional boundary to the boundary of pedarasty and necrophilia is ridiculous.
"Yet now there's a moral absolute drawn by the sexual liberation crowd--an absolute that has absolutely no rational context surrounding it. Normalcy cannot exist without definitions, therefore by extension, neither can deviation."
Moral absolutes exist everywhere, in every clique. You've made this point without realising that you were shooting down your own argument.
"At this point I'm not so much refuting your point as I am refuting "sexual liberation" in general."
But why? Are you so bothered by what other people do that you feel the need to interject and tell them that they are wrong for what they do? Is it perhaps an issue of repression within your own psyche?
"I'll assume the opposite of my premise--that these women (and by these I mean not just SG's) really do find self-realization or at least gratification by their line of work. That would mean that either they enjoy being naked for the sake of being naked, or they enjoy being naked for the attention (i.e. for the reaction they get from themselves, or the reaction they get from others).
The first case is unlikely, because we all spend ample time naked by ourselves. That need is already fulfilled. There could be a case for combining this theoretical enjoyment derived from nakedness with earning wage, but this is a real stretch. I'm going to dismiss it on grounds of absurdity."
I enjoy wearing my necklace at all times. Is it possible that someone might enjoy wearing nothing at all times? You have to calculate in the thought processes of many people before you can summarily dismiss the notion.
"The second case actually works for my position Engaging in any act in
"What is my prejudice? That women shouldn't show their naked bodies for money?"
Precisely. If one is inclined to show their body, whether for money or not, doesn that automatically label them a bad or immoral person? I don't believe that it does.
"Fine, I'm prejudiced. I'm not requiring you to join with me in this antiquated, prosaic ideology of sexual "suppression.""
The funny thing is that you say that with hints of derision. One could certainly look at sexual suppression as being an outdated and archaic form of control and censorship. And, yes, I do fully understand that many past or "antiquated" social groups have at one point or another, embraced sexual freedom. I'm not stating that this is any type of new sexual revelation (or revolution depending on who you speak to), it's no different, nor something to be frowned upon simply because it's not your cup of tea.
"But I think you have a far stronger prejudice here which you are projecting--that our sexuality has no boundaries, and thus no room for deviation. Yet there isn't a single pair of eyes reading Slashdot that doesn't think at least some act of sexuality is perverse. There are boundaries, and I very much believe that selling your own sexuality, be it the act or the photographict depictions of the act, is damaging to both the viewer and the model. You can draw the line at pedastasy and necrophilia, I'll draw it sex without proper emotional context."
Sexual boundaries, or boundaries in relation to any topic is subjective to the individual. For you to make a blanket statement asserting that your view is more correct or moral is quite selfish. For some, it's a way to pay the bills, for others, it's the experience of it all. How is selling images of your naked body fundamentally any different than selling images of landscapes? Both are natural, both are beautiful.
Personally, I enjoy sex without emotional context on some occasions. It doesn't mean that I am incapable of conveying and nurturing more connected sexual relations. It is also neither necessarily disrespectful nor illegal. Thus drawing a comparison with your emotional boundary to the boundary of pedarasty and necrophilia is ridiculous.
"Yet now there's a moral absolute drawn by the sexual liberation crowd--an absolute that has absolutely no rational context surrounding it. Normalcy cannot exist without definitions, therefore by extension, neither can deviation."
Moral absolutes exist everywhere, in every clique. You've made this point without realising that you were shooting down your own argument.
"At this point I'm not so much refuting your point as I am refuting "sexual liberation" in general."
But why? Are you so bothered by what other people do that you feel the need to interject and tell them that they are wrong for what they do? Is it perhaps an issue of repression within your own psyche?
"I'll assume the opposite of my premise--that these women (and by these I mean not just SG's) really do find self-realization or at least gratification by their line of work. That would mean that either they enjoy being naked for the sake of being naked, or they enjoy being naked for the attention (i.e. for the reaction they get from themselves, or the reaction they get from others).
The first case is unlikely, because we all spend ample time naked by ourselves. That need is already fulfilled. There could be a case for combining this theoretical enjoyment derived from nakedness with earning wage, but this is a real stretch. I'm going to dismiss it on grounds of absurdity."
I enjoy wearing my necklace at all times. Is it possible that someone might enjoy wearing nothing at all times? You have to calculate in the thought processes of many people before you can summarily dismiss the notion.
"The second case actually works for my position Engaging in any act in order to solicit attention from strangers suggests serious psychological problems, not the least of which is self worth!"
Are you saying that artists, musicians and actors, whose professions by defi
The "Metroid" name they might have a case against. Zelda? Not a chance.
Just use Gabe's (Penny Arcade) super-leet encryption method. "Yeah, so I was playing this top-secret beta of Hetroid by Hintendo. You wouldn't believe the extremely graphic and gory fashion in which Rammus Baran dies!".
I'm guessing your glasses don't filter UV ray or block glare nearly as effectively a a decent pair of $200 glasses.
Also, just because someone maintains good personal hygiene and takes some effort to look good they're automatically a "metrosexual"?
The fact that you even have to train a dog is proof that they aren't as intelligent as cats.
Another perfect test is to let a domestic dog and a cat go in the wild. The dog would be dead in a week or two, whereas the cat would survive.
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I agree with this. Spamming has gotten so out of hand that the only way an automated system can work is by having outrageous filters in place. This has the potential to prevent legit senders from ever reaching you. If the penalty was raised and enforced, say by making spamming a felony offense, I'd bet that a lot of those problems would go away.
That's all that needed to be said. Why do you feel the need to be such a jerk about it?
According to my clock and calender, it is Tuesday, November 9th, 9:00 AM. Is this release not global or something?
It is November 9th.
With Halo 2 and Everquest 2 launched today, what happened to Firefox 1.0? It was supposed to be released today as well, yet no sign of it on mozilla.org.
Anyone know anything about this?
Halo just seems to be hype since I haven't seen anything unique or interesting from it so far. On the other hand, I still play UT (which "pwns" IMHO)and even games of Duke Nukem 3D every now and then. -Wren
So instead of making the discs biodegradable, shouldn't they be making them recycleable?
You'll be missing out then. OGG is fine, but I'll be sticking to MP3 and MP3 Pro for the forseeable future. Regardless of what anyone thinks of those formats, they are the defacto standard, supported by everything and offer good compression with good sound quality. Quite frankly, I don't see what's in the hype of OGG's supposedly having better sound quality. In my opinion, MP3's have better sound quality with less tinniness.
I suggest that you don't go outside or drive then. If you work in a bar, that is the choice you have made. People don't go to bars to get healthy. Don't like it, quit and find another job.
A friend of mine stomped out a newer model BMW 740's windshield with only his boot. An F-16's cockpit can survive a seagull at 400-knots, but costs approximately 1 million U.S. dollars to make. I find the sledgehammer BMW claim to be very difficult to believe because of those facts.
What I mean is the Athlon XP provides similar performance to a P4 and they're both 32-bit machines. This is how I've always seen the comparisons... Intel 8086 (manufactured by AMD) vs NEC V20 Intel 80286 (manufactured by AMD) vs NEC V30 Intel 80386 vs AMD 80386 Intel 80486 vs AMD 80486 Intel Pentium vs AMD K5 Intel Pentium Pro vs AMD K6 Intel Pentium 2 vs AMD K6-2 Intel Pentium 3 vs AMD K6-3 Intel Pentium 4 vs AMD Athlon Intel ??? vs AMD Athlon 64 Intel Itanium vs AMD Opteron
Why should we use JPEG2k when we have PNG?
I choose hot, intelligent, available and nice. After all, if she's all of the above, who needs sanity?
Aren't the Athlon 64 line of processors a generation beyond the P4? Compare the prices of Athlon XP's to P4's and you might see a difference.
Yeah and 640k ought to be enough for anybody...
I like your (I assume) choice of name of the image file.
Demographic information is not difficult to obtain. Other companies like Namco and Nintendo have produced classic/collector edition games that did well. I think you are completely wrong about the reasons that Sierra turned this down.
"What is my prejudice? That women shouldn't show their naked bodies for money?"
Precisely. If one is inclined to show their body, whether for money or not, doesn that automatically label them a bad or immoral person? I don't believe that it does.
"Fine, I'm prejudiced. I'm not requiring you to join with me in this antiquated, prosaic ideology of sexual "suppression.""
The funny thing is that you say that with hints of derision. One could certainly look at sexual suppression as being an outdated and archaic form of control and censorship. And, yes, I do fully understand that many past or "antiquated" social groups have at one point or another, embraced sexual freedom. I'm not stating that this is any type of new sexual revelation (or revolution depending on who you speak to), it's no different, nor something to be frowned upon simply because it's not your cup of tea.
"But I think you have a far stronger prejudice here which you are projecting--that our sexuality has no boundaries, and thus no room for deviation. Yet there isn't a single pair of eyes reading Slashdot that doesn't think at least some act of sexuality is perverse. There are boundaries, and I very much believe that selling your own sexuality, be it the act or the photographict depictions of the act, is damaging to both the viewer and the model. You can draw the line at pedastasy and necrophilia, I'll draw it sex without proper emotional context."
Sexual boundaries, or boundaries in relation to any topic is subjective to the individual. For you to make a blanket statement asserting that your view is more correct or moral is quite selfish. For some, it's a way to pay the bills, for others, it's the experience of it all. How is selling images of your naked body fundamentally any different than selling images of landscapes? Both are natural, both are beautiful.
Personally, I enjoy sex without emotional context on some occasions. It doesn't mean that I am incapable of conveying and nurturing more connected sexual relations. It is also neither necessarily disrespectful nor illegal. Thus drawing a comparison with your emotional boundary to the boundary of pedarasty and necrophilia is ridiculous.
"Yet now there's a moral absolute drawn by the sexual liberation crowd--an absolute that has absolutely no rational context surrounding it. Normalcy cannot exist without definitions, therefore by extension, neither can deviation."
Moral absolutes exist everywhere, in every clique. You've made this point without realising that you were shooting down your own argument.
"At this point I'm not so much refuting your point as I am refuting "sexual liberation" in general."
But why? Are you so bothered by what other people do that you feel the need to interject and tell them that they are wrong for what they do? Is it perhaps an issue of repression within your own psyche?
"I'll assume the opposite of my premise--that these women (and by these I mean not just SG's) really do find self-realization or at least gratification by their line of work. That would mean that either they enjoy being naked for the sake of being naked, or they enjoy being naked for the attention (i.e. for the reaction they get from themselves, or the reaction they get from others).
The first case is unlikely, because we all spend ample time naked by ourselves. That need is already fulfilled. There could be a case for combining this theoretical enjoyment derived from nakedness with earning wage, but this is a real stretch. I'm going to dismiss it on grounds of absurdity."
I enjoy wearing my necklace at all times. Is it possible that someone might enjoy wearing nothing at all times? You have to calculate in the thought processes of many people before you can summarily dismiss the notion.
"The second case actually works for my position Engaging in any act in
"What is my prejudice? That women shouldn't show their naked bodies for money?" Precisely. If one is inclined to show their body, whether for money or not, doesn that automatically label them a bad or immoral person? I don't believe that it does. "Fine, I'm prejudiced. I'm not requiring you to join with me in this antiquated, prosaic ideology of sexual "suppression."" The funny thing is that you say that with hints of derision. One could certainly look at sexual suppression as being an outdated and archaic form of control and censorship. And, yes, I do fully understand that many past or "antiquated" social groups have at one point or another, embraced sexual freedom. I'm not stating that this is any type of new sexual revelation (or revolution depending on who you speak to), it's no different, nor something to be frowned upon simply because it's not your cup of tea. "But I think you have a far stronger prejudice here which you are projecting--that our sexuality has no boundaries, and thus no room for deviation. Yet there isn't a single pair of eyes reading Slashdot that doesn't think at least some act of sexuality is perverse. There are boundaries, and I very much believe that selling your own sexuality, be it the act or the photographict depictions of the act, is damaging to both the viewer and the model. You can draw the line at pedastasy and necrophilia, I'll draw it sex without proper emotional context." Sexual boundaries, or boundaries in relation to any topic is subjective to the individual. For you to make a blanket statement asserting that your view is more correct or moral is quite selfish. For some, it's a way to pay the bills, for others, it's the experience of it all. How is selling images of your naked body fundamentally any different than selling images of landscapes? Both are natural, both are beautiful. Personally, I enjoy sex without emotional context on some occasions. It doesn't mean that I am incapable of conveying and nurturing more connected sexual relations. It is also neither necessarily disrespectful nor illegal. Thus drawing a comparison with your emotional boundary to the boundary of pedarasty and necrophilia is ridiculous. "Yet now there's a moral absolute drawn by the sexual liberation crowd--an absolute that has absolutely no rational context surrounding it. Normalcy cannot exist without definitions, therefore by extension, neither can deviation." Moral absolutes exist everywhere, in every clique. You've made this point without realising that you were shooting down your own argument. "At this point I'm not so much refuting your point as I am refuting "sexual liberation" in general." But why? Are you so bothered by what other people do that you feel the need to interject and tell them that they are wrong for what they do? Is it perhaps an issue of repression within your own psyche? "I'll assume the opposite of my premise--that these women (and by these I mean not just SG's) really do find self-realization or at least gratification by their line of work. That would mean that either they enjoy being naked for the sake of being naked, or they enjoy being naked for the attention (i.e. for the reaction they get from themselves, or the reaction they get from others). The first case is unlikely, because we all spend ample time naked by ourselves. That need is already fulfilled. There could be a case for combining this theoretical enjoyment derived from nakedness with earning wage, but this is a real stretch. I'm going to dismiss it on grounds of absurdity." I enjoy wearing my necklace at all times. Is it possible that someone might enjoy wearing nothing at all times? You have to calculate in the thought processes of many people before you can summarily dismiss the notion. "The second case actually works for my position Engaging in any act in order to solicit attention from strangers suggests serious psychological problems, not the least of which is self worth!" Are you saying that artists, musicians and actors, whose professions by defi
The "Metroid" name they might have a case against. Zelda? Not a chance. Just use Gabe's (Penny Arcade) super-leet encryption method. "Yeah, so I was playing this top-secret beta of Hetroid by Hintendo. You wouldn't believe the extremely graphic and gory fashion in which Rammus Baran dies!".
That's what makes it even more sad. The girls on SG probably aren't even goths or geeks.
So you're like, what, 1 out of a million people who would have this problem?
I'm guessing your glasses don't filter UV ray or block glare nearly as effectively a a decent pair of $200 glasses. Also, just because someone maintains good personal hygiene and takes some effort to look good they're automatically a "metrosexual"?
Ferrets are cool, the only problem is that they are illegal in some states (ie. California).
The fact that you even have to train a dog is proof that they aren't as intelligent as cats. Another perfect test is to let a domestic dog and a cat go in the wild. The dog would be dead in a week or two, whereas the cat would survive.