Does anyone know of decent suppliers of 3d viewing equipment? Say glasses/monitors? I've found some sites in the US but they aren't cheap (especially with shipping to UK).
The patriot act comes to mind. (Which, btw, did nothing to stop Nidal Hasan from killing people.)
Dear Citizen,
The Patriot Act was infact a great help it stopping Nidal Hasan from killing more people than he did! Infact, if we allow full wiretapping, remove all that paperwork that gets in the way of stopping police from stopping and searching you, as well as any probable cause requirements involved, this would never have happenned! It just turns out the soft liberal types, who are first to defend cartoon depictions of child pornography, obviously direct support for paedophiles I might add, which prevents us from keeping you safe from terrorists (You do remember 9/11 right?).
Our inability to stop and hold suspects without probable cause gives them time to destroy all evidence of there terrorist or paedophilic activities! This is why it is vital to detain them imediately so that such evidence can be found, and justice served! Won't you please think of the children?
Signed, Your bought Politician.
For those interested they can already do this in the UK, US I'm not so sure.
They do not get paid everytime someone pays rock band or guitar hero, because they licensed it, this is not a difficult concept. Guitar Hero!=Radio/Television/Movies etc.
They were payed royalty fees when they licensed the music to the game. ASCAP its just trying to manipulate the meaning of public performance for more money.
Google ASCAP, its just another organisation that operates like the RIAA. So yes, they do apply.
I mean, they wanted people to pay for public performances of there work if your ringtone was a song that went off in public.
About 10 years ago (MegaDrive/Genesis Era) I recall games getting 1,2 even a 0 out of 10. These days you give FIFA 2010 4 out of 10 for simply updating the graphics from the previous year and not touching anything else and EA will never send you a prerelease version of any game they have, or will ever have influence over again. Give it a 9/10 with a brief "Could have done more on gameplay" hidden in the review and your best of friends!
Any safe can be broken into, especially if its the police doing it, because no ones going to arrest them half way through the attempt. So key or no key, there getting what they want, though they may have something of a dim view of you come sentancing if you didn't give them the key and whatever illegal activity was in the safe. If there was nothing in said safe, and the key really had been lost, the police more or less wasted there time and your not guilty of anything, after all they never found that key either.
However, with encryption it could well take the span of several peoples life times to crack a key needed to unlock the data, hence the law brought in. However if you have genuinely lost the key, or its destroyed, and you have nothing illegal encrypted, say bank details and the like, your going to prison anyway.
Carefully crack a CD in various places, so that not data can be recovered from it, scrawl on it "Encrytion Keys - Keep Safe" and hide in a stack of CDs.
When arrested, tell them about this CD that has your keys. When they come back and inform you its damaged go psycho screaming at them for having lost your keys, and hence, years of data (cos your back ups are encrypted too right?).
Yes, Life Is Hard. Accept it, work with it, deal with it. Your posts are getting worse and worse, tending more to victim syndrome. Did you even read all my post or just look for something to take out of context and snipe at?
I'll ask you a third time now DO NOT IGNORE THIS.
YOU, yes, YOU. YOU ask for action, yet YOU suggest NONE. You have ideals and dreams, you have a vision of a better world. Good. But you have no action, no plan, no suggestion as to how this may be done. You look away to foriegn powers to solve your problems, even though you don't suggest to them how they might do so. I'm doing what I can to change my nation, Im doing something, if not a big thing, to break the UKs Tory and Red Tie Tory (Or labour as they still dare to call themselves) hold over the UK.
INCASE YOU SKIPPED THE REST, AGAIN, LOOK HERE. So. What do YOU suggest be done, that will change your nation. Action, plans. No more pointless banner waving.
when your neighbor's house is on fire you might want to make sure to help him put it out, before the whole neighborhood is aflame. rather than watch his house burn down while you obsess over the fact the upstairs toilet's flush handle stays stuck
Since you seem to Your house may be ablaze, but mines starting to smolder, its taking my effort to stop it from burning to the ground. Once its safe, I'll come help you, otherwise my house will burn as yours does. And im pretty certain your house will burn down before theres anything I can do. Atleast if mines still there and I help you rebuild yours rather than rebuild mine.
really, that's about the scale of comparison when it comes to the "stripping of our freedoms" under western governments (now there's a loaded concept) with what goes elsewhere in your world. do you think it made sense to focus only on fascist elements in great britain in 1939 as germany invaded poland? same concept in play here
as for your suggestion that you have very little influence over other world governments, while you can only wield influnece at home: this is like letting a murderer run away from a murder scene you witness because he won't stop when you yell "stop!" at him... meanwhile, the jaywalker stops and turns around and acts responsibly when you yell "stop!" so let's prosecute the hell out of the jaywalker instead of the murderer. your moral conscience should not be calibrated only to how receptive a criminal is to your prosecution of him, but by the scale of their crime
Its nothing like this, at all. Its like going "hey china stop being so mean, or we'll, er, just stop it". Terrifying, a nation willing to employ its military on its own people will surely listen to the civilians of a nation following the same path.
We didn't do anything at the invasion of poland. Oh sure, we "declared war" but we made no real military move to stop them, france did the same. As soon as they hit Belguim (i.e coming our way) we got involved. So on the whole you got that right, not that you knew you did.
in fact, the very notion that you DO have influence at home, in a western democracy, speaks volumes about how good you really do have it in the west: your government listens to you. do you know how vital and fragile a concept that really is in the history of the world?
In the history of the world? It means nothing, its the blink on an eye. Lords, Kings and Emperors which endured many long years in control. Democracy as we know it is quite new, and slowly eroding back into the old ways.
Your also still calling for action without call of what that action is. Its still pointless banner waving.
Some may call that inspiring, but its ultimately pointless. As a westerner under the rule of the evil western governments (though apparenty not upto the Evilness of those of asia), what do you want me to do? We can't stop our own less-evil governments from cranking out laws stripping us of our freedoms, let alone get the majority of the population to even vote to stop it. What can I, as a man who has so very little influence over his own country, do to right the wrongs of a country the purposely limits the flow of information to stop whatever little influence I may have.
You may want me to act on this, but you don't say how. We have lots of meaningless banner waving, that does nothing.
p.s On a very vaguely related note, I urge UK readers to atleast glance at http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/, its not much, but its some sort of start.
Its possible to have fun, and be educational whilst disconnected from the real world. I give you Droid Works http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Droid_Works. I bought this game years ago, didn't even know it was educational, I just saw making your own droids and decided I must have it. I enjoyed the game too, its only recently when I found the box buried away somewhere did I see on the box that was an educational game. Teaches you about pulleys, weights, gears and thinking ahead. Im tempted to re-install it now...
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The US is getting to the point were one should just ask "Does the Fourth Amendment apply anywhere now?".
Does anyone know of decent suppliers of 3d viewing equipment? Say glasses/monitors? I've found some sites in the US but they aren't cheap (especially with shipping to UK).
"In the dark future, there is only war" -Warhammer 40000
Ah yes, quite right, I should have added its mostly the detaining part.
Dear Citizen,
The Patriot Act was infact a great help it stopping Nidal Hasan from killing more people than he did! Infact, if we allow full wiretapping, remove all that paperwork that gets in the way of stopping police from stopping and searching you, as well as any probable cause requirements involved, this would never have happenned! It just turns out the soft liberal types, who are first to defend cartoon depictions of child pornography, obviously direct support for paedophiles I might add, which prevents us from keeping you safe from terrorists (You do remember 9/11 right?).
Our inability to stop and hold suspects without probable cause gives them time to destroy all evidence of there terrorist or paedophilic activities! This is why it is vital to detain them imediately so that such evidence can be found, and justice served! Won't you please think of the children?
Signed, Your bought Politician.
For those interested they can already do this in the UK, US I'm not so sure.
It does not. HTH.
They do not get paid everytime someone pays rock band or guitar hero, because they licensed it, this is not a difficult concept. Guitar Hero!=Radio/Television/Movies etc.
They were payed royalty fees when they licensed the music to the game. ASCAP its just trying to manipulate the meaning of public performance for more money.
You googled ASCAP and failed to find anything? Try looking at anything but the first result maybe? Hell even the third pointing to wikipedia gives it away. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Society_of_Composers,_Authors_and_Publishers#Criticism
Google ASCAP, its just another organisation that operates like the RIAA. So yes, they do apply. I mean, they wanted people to pay for public performances of there work if your ringtone was a song that went off in public.
So people have to buy stuff from you to get free content?
Run that by me again?
About 10 years ago (MegaDrive/Genesis Era) I recall games getting 1,2 even a 0 out of 10. These days you give FIFA 2010 4 out of 10 for simply updating the graphics from the previous year and not touching anything else and EA will never send you a prerelease version of any game they have, or will ever have influence over again. Give it a 9/10 with a brief "Could have done more on gameplay" hidden in the review and your best of friends!
It never took off? I've only ever used firewire for networking once, and that was for the sheer novelty of seeing if it could be done.
Really? ID cards are unpopular, they want to be elected, and oddly, they oppose it, funny that.
I've seen enough elections to know whilst they oppose it now, they'll love it if they get into power, lest the plebs think they matter.
Your assuming they aren't just using to let them access US Gov approved news, as opposed to the China/Iran Gov approved news they have now.
Any safe can be broken into, especially if its the police doing it, because no ones going to arrest them half way through the attempt. So key or no key, there getting what they want, though they may have something of a dim view of you come sentancing if you didn't give them the key and whatever illegal activity was in the safe. If there was nothing in said safe, and the key really had been lost, the police more or less wasted there time and your not guilty of anything, after all they never found that key either.
However, with encryption it could well take the span of several peoples life times to crack a key needed to unlock the data, hence the law brought in. However if you have genuinely lost the key, or its destroyed, and you have nothing illegal encrypted, say bank details and the like, your going to prison anyway.
These are likely times when the server maintainers would be asleep.
Carefully crack a CD in various places, so that not data can be recovered from it, scrawl on it "Encrytion Keys - Keep Safe" and hide in a stack of CDs.
When arrested, tell them about this CD that has your keys. When they come back and inform you its damaged go psycho screaming at them for having lost your keys, and hence, years of data (cos your back ups are encrypted too right?).
Sue.
Profit!
Ok maybe not, worth a thought though.
Wow, did you even read my post?
Yes, Life Is Hard. Accept it, work with it, deal with it. Your posts are getting worse and worse, tending more to victim syndrome. Did you even read all my post or just look for something to take out of context and snipe at?
I'll ask you a third time now DO NOT IGNORE THIS.
YOU, yes, YOU. YOU ask for action, yet YOU suggest NONE. You have ideals and dreams, you have a vision of a better world. Good. But you have no action, no plan, no suggestion as to how this may be done. You look away to foriegn powers to solve your problems, even though you don't suggest to them how they might do so. I'm doing what I can to change my nation, Im doing something, if not a big thing, to break the UKs Tory and Red Tie Tory (Or labour as they still dare to call themselves) hold over the UK.
INCASE YOU SKIPPED THE REST, AGAIN, LOOK HERE.
So. What do YOU suggest be done, that will change your nation. Action, plans. No more pointless banner waving.
Wow, just wow. Seriously.
when your neighbor's house is on fire you might want to make sure to help him put it out, before the whole neighborhood is aflame. rather than watch his house burn down while you obsess over the fact the upstairs toilet's flush handle stays stuck
Since you seem to Your house may be ablaze, but mines starting to smolder, its taking my effort to stop it from burning to the ground. Once its safe, I'll come help you, otherwise my house will burn as yours does. And im pretty certain your house will burn down before theres anything I can do. Atleast if mines still there and I help you rebuild yours rather than rebuild mine.
really, that's about the scale of comparison when it comes to the "stripping of our freedoms" under western governments (now there's a loaded concept) with what goes elsewhere in your world. do you think it made sense to focus only on fascist elements in great britain in 1939 as germany invaded poland? same concept in play here
as for your suggestion that you have very little influence over other world governments, while you can only wield influnece at home: this is like letting a murderer run away from a murder scene you witness because he won't stop when you yell "stop!" at him... meanwhile, the jaywalker stops and turns around and acts responsibly when you yell "stop!" so let's prosecute the hell out of the jaywalker instead of the murderer. your moral conscience should not be calibrated only to how receptive a criminal is to your prosecution of him, but by the scale of their crime
Its nothing like this, at all. Its like going "hey china stop being so mean, or we'll, er, just stop it". Terrifying, a nation willing to employ its military on its own people will surely listen to the civilians of a nation following the same path. We didn't do anything at the invasion of poland. Oh sure, we "declared war" but we made no real military move to stop them, france did the same. As soon as they hit Belguim (i.e coming our way) we got involved. So on the whole you got that right, not that you knew you did.
in fact, the very notion that you DO have influence at home, in a western democracy, speaks volumes about how good you really do have it in the west: your government listens to you. do you know how vital and fragile a concept that really is in the history of the world?
In the history of the world? It means nothing, its the blink on an eye. Lords, Kings and Emperors which endured many long years in control. Democracy as we know it is quite new, and slowly eroding back into the old ways.
Your also still calling for action without call of what that action is. Its still pointless banner waving.
Some may call that inspiring, but its ultimately pointless. As a westerner under the rule of the evil western governments (though apparenty not upto the Evilness of those of asia), what do you want me to do? We can't stop our own less-evil governments from cranking out laws stripping us of our freedoms, let alone get the majority of the population to even vote to stop it. What can I, as a man who has so very little influence over his own country, do to right the wrongs of a country the purposely limits the flow of information to stop whatever little influence I may have.
You may want me to act on this, but you don't say how. We have lots of meaningless banner waving, that does nothing.
p.s On a very vaguely related note, I urge UK readers to atleast glance at http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/, its not much, but its some sort of start.
Its possible to have fun, and be educational whilst disconnected from the real world. I give you Droid Works http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Droid_Works. I bought this game years ago, didn't even know it was educational, I just saw making your own droids and decided I must have it. I enjoyed the game too, its only recently when I found the box buried away somewhere did I see on the box that was an educational game. Teaches you about pulleys, weights, gears and thinking ahead. Im tempted to re-install it now...
I've had my haircut before from people with social skills to rival a radiator before. It my not be the norm, but it does happen.
Whilst this is true, its also alot smaller problem than trying to lay cables to every individual house/street/village etc, for a wired service.