What happens the next time they want the same info for some other reason? Start off playing the "think of the children" card, and things will be much easier when a foreign power wants the info for a person who is wanted for being suspected of a lesser crime, for criticising their government on the Internet, or for being someone who a corrupt official doesn't like.
Please note I have no idea what the Brazilian government is like, and the above examples may be off base for them (at least presently,) so this isn't meant to be a dig at the Brazilian administration. My point is, there are now and will always be governments out there who would really enjoy the chance to extract info on certain people through nervous US-based Internet companies.
I heard about that, although by that time the forcible insertion of the "Cromag War" story arc into a show which was meant to be something of a weekly "what if?" anthology type of deal built around the main cast had already put me off. And they did the same thing to MST3k, forcing the writers of that show (which had always lovingly kept its fictional intergrity to the bare minimum necessary for a show about a guy and some puppets in space watching bad movies) to come up with running arcs for their characters.
If I get hold of a once-marketable name, slap some "Web 2.0" style buzzwords on it, and do some patent-trolling, can I have $10 million in venture capital too?
I'm no Stargate fan, but as a fan of the original "Sliders," classic "Doctor Who," "Mystery Science Theater 3000," and other things Scifi "rescued" with great fanfare before unceremoniously killing off, I feel your pain.
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Hah, I used to work on a generic version of those beastly robots for a Chuck E. Cheese competitor. One time we had the furry coverings stripped off the whole set for maintainance. I still consider watching a band of animal-shaped Terminator endoskeletons sing happy kiddie songs on a loop for half an hour to be one of the best concerts I've ever been to.
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The personal electronics have made modern American warfare the most comfortable it has ever been
That's rather like saying we've invented a form of molten lead that's more comfortable to have poured onto you than normal common or garden variety molten lead. These soldiers aren't exactly enjoying an evening at Chuck E. Cheese, for pity's sake!
I really know nothing about this, so please pardon a silly question, but would a military agency really have any qualms about ignoring a "no military" clause and putting something to use if it fills a need?
A clause in the license saying "you can use this for free unless you're a military entity" reminds me a bit of the disclaimers you used to see on the welcome screens of underground BBSes in the 1980s, which always said something like "no police are allowed to login to this board, if you sign on you're not allowed to nark on me."
I'm just as paranoid, but the cynical devil's advocate part of me wonders if a paperless system would be all that different in practice from the magically disappearing hard copies they've always used.
I, along with my respected technology firm of Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe, and Dionne Warwick's psychic friends, combined with enough Magic Eight Balls to count up to 480, do hereby predict that the Virtual Boy will make a major comeback and obtain 67% of the market. Following by a close second with 54% will be a Tiger Handheld LCD version of The Lion King, with the remaining 32% playing with some sticks and gravel they found on the ground.
Please send the usual large bags of moneys for my business-analyisisting fees to my Summerhouse in the Hamptons, will you? thx.
I'm not their constituent, but I might still send them a very nice letter, expressing my thanks that at least one state has grown something of a brain, and CC it to my own lawmakers. If we all did the same, maybe the rest of the country could be shocked into catching up to Georgia.
I'm going to start using the word "VirtualDub" as often as I can, on German websites and non-German. Let's see if this con artist is as good at suing a foreign national as s/he is at stealing from one.
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Does it have the bright white "please rob me" earbuds?
What happens the next time they want the same info for some other reason? Start off playing the "think of the children" card, and things will be much easier when a foreign power wants the info for a person who is wanted for being suspected of a lesser crime, for criticising their government on the Internet, or for being someone who a corrupt official doesn't like.
Please note I have no idea what the Brazilian government is like, and the above examples may be off base for them (at least presently,) so this isn't meant to be a dig at the Brazilian administration. My point is, there are now and will always be governments out there who would really enjoy the chance to extract info on certain people through nervous US-based Internet companies.
Hah! I'd love that on a shiny nameplate outside my office.
I heard about that, although by that time the forcible insertion of the "Cromag War" story arc into a show which was meant to be something of a weekly "what if?" anthology type of deal built around the main cast had already put me off. And they did the same thing to MST3k, forcing the writers of that show (which had always lovingly kept its fictional intergrity to the bare minimum necessary for a show about a guy and some puppets in space watching bad movies) to come up with running arcs for their characters.
If I get hold of a once-marketable name, slap some "Web 2.0" style buzzwords on it, and do some patent-trolling, can I have $10 million in venture capital too?
The Mozilla developers will be carried along a corridor on a conveyor belt in extreme comfort and past murals depicting Mediterranean scenes, towards the rotating knives. The last twenty feet of the corridor are heavily soundproofed.
I'm no Stargate fan, but as a fan of the original "Sliders," classic "Doctor Who," "Mystery Science Theater 3000," and other things Scifi "rescued" with great fanfare before unceremoniously killing off, I feel your pain.
Hah, I used to work on a generic version of those beastly robots for a Chuck E. Cheese competitor. One time we had the furry coverings stripped off the whole set for maintainance. I still consider watching a band of animal-shaped Terminator endoskeletons sing happy kiddie songs on a loop for half an hour to be one of the best concerts I've ever been to.
..i just want to know who the bastard is that carved "CHA" into it!
I really know nothing about this, so please pardon a silly question, but would a military agency really have any qualms about ignoring a "no military" clause and putting something to use if it fills a need?
A clause in the license saying "you can use this for free unless you're a military entity" reminds me a bit of the disclaimers you used to see on the welcome screens of underground BBSes in the 1980s, which always said something like "no police are allowed to login to this board, if you sign on you're not allowed to nark on me."
PENN FROM PENN & TELLER: They're coming in from remote nodes. They're going after the Kernal!
TONY SOPRANO'S SHRINK LADY: Colonel who?
PENN: The System Command Processor, it's the brain.
TSSL: Cancer, brain, brain, cancer!
I have to agree. Seriously, does anyone here in games.slashdot.org preorder games at Wal-Mart?
I'm just as paranoid, but the cynical devil's advocate part of me wonders if a paperless system would be all that different in practice from the magically disappearing hard copies they've always used.
People are already arguing over things that may happen in a few billion years? I don't even buy green bananas!
I, along with my respected technology firm of Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe, and Dionne Warwick's psychic friends, combined with enough Magic Eight Balls to count up to 480, do hereby predict that the Virtual Boy will make a major comeback and obtain 67% of the market. Following by a close second with 54% will be a Tiger Handheld LCD version of The Lion King, with the remaining 32% playing with some sticks and gravel they found on the ground.
Please send the usual large bags of moneys for my business-analyisisting fees to my Summerhouse in the Hamptons, will you? thx.
I'm not their constituent, but I might still send them a very nice letter, expressing my thanks that at least one state has grown something of a brain, and CC it to my own lawmakers. If we all did the same, maybe the rest of the country could be shocked into catching up to Georgia.
I'm going to start using the word "VirtualDub" as often as I can, on German websites and non-German. Let's see if this con artist is as good at suing a foreign national as s/he is at stealing from one.
I'll see your Bruce WIllis and Pauly Shore, and raise you a Bruce Dern and a Maximilian Schell.
Things will all go smoothly until Matthew McConaughey demands to know whether the candidates believe in God.
..Sun ANGRY! Sun KILL!!