edit: this one is for you, and yes i have drank it and yes it was delicious!(come get me) [image of miller lite]
Did he drink it on school grounds? Was he intoxicated at school?
Or did he drink this at home... Or maybe in Mexico?
You can't simply suspend a student because he says he drinks alcohol (he might be making it up). There would have to be hard evidence that it is on school ground or leading to bad behavior on school grounds.
Otherwise we'd have kids being supsended for drinking wine at Sunday mass.
The more and more I look at Vanguard reminds me of EQ with all their faults. Lot of grinding, no instances, heaven for griefers and gold farmers.
Ah... I was under the impression they were bashing anything "Grind-esque" and lumping WoW and EQ into the same branch of game play. WoW and EQ are pretty much the same to me except WoW is easier (and more fun) to play and has taken care of a great deal of problems EQ had.
I was thinking they were scraping both for something new, but it appears by what everyone is saying that it is just EQ with a new game engine instead. Ah well.
I think Eve is very much alive and kicking and Ultima Online is shambling along it isn't mutated form. Ultima Online doesn't require massive level grinding... Perhaps casual play for 6 months and hard core for about 2-3 if you wanted to max a character out. The key feature I always liked about UO wasn't that you were constantly grinding but you could go out and do things other than level progression.
"To the detriment of Vanguard, they (Vanguard's community) will protest any implementation that even remotely resembles a mechanic within World of Warcraft. Good or bad, it doesn't matter. If it's something within WoW, they want it O-U-T."
Even though WoW is fun (and addicting), if I was playing another game it would be rather annoying to see WoW with just another game engine slapped over it. If you want to play WoW, then it is already there and waiting for you.
For those who want to play something different... Well... It would be nice to have sometehing other than the old "kill things over and over to level up to kill bigger things over and over again to level up to kill bigger things over and over again" because that is pretty much the same formula of WoW, EQ 1/2, and every other MMOG known the man these days. (SWG and UO rest in peace)
Lawyers ought to have a hippocratic oath, just like doctors... "Do no harm". Not sure how that fits with defending a murder suspect, but it certainly seems wrong for them to (ab)use someone's name like this...
It fits even for that. Especially if the murder suspect is innocent.
And remember, everyone is innocent until proven guilty.
As absurd as it seems... If 20 people see you kill someone in public, on camera broadcasted to thousands of witnesses, you are innocent until the jury hands you a guilty verdict.
Then I suddenly realized that these sims are programmed to age and eventually die! I then started another family which I care much less about and refuse to load my original family because I can't bear the thought not only of their permanent passing - but of the distress it will cause the other sims!
Really? Most of my sims end up starving to death in puddle of their own urine after being walled up in a windowsless/doorless house.
American women walking around without a husband or male family member violates the spirt of the law in Saudi Arabia.
An american posting a blog that is critical of the Chinese government violates the spirt of the law in China.
Yet I don't see them clamoring for us to change our "evil" ways.
Cultural relativism is alive and well. You simply have to accept this as a fact whether you agree with another nations policies or not. Other nations do not believe in the same things we believe in... With a country that just spent 70 some odd years to where every intellectual property made was deemed "property of the people" (aka Soviet State), it is kind of expected they aren't going to respect IP the same way we do.
Sometimes we shouldn't be going over to other nations and telling them to change their ways because there may come a day in which they'll be tempted to do the same way.
I'm sure in some off the wall nation it is quite legal for me to murder someone over an insult and beat my children til they die because they disobeyed me, but I'd rather not see that become legal here.
The Wiki article isn't too informative and I'm kind of late to the game... I mean we know he sued because he doesn't like GPL, but why doesn't he like GPL? Does he own a closed sourcesoftware buseinss that was trying to compete with Linux? Or is he a paid shill? Or did RMS insult him at a comic book convention? Maybe Linus wrote a scathing reply to his ponies request inclusion to the Linux kernel?
The Wiki and other articles is very uninformative of who this guy is and his motivations and why he would even go out of his way to this. It is like the man spontaneously came into existence just to sue.
Secondly, if.xxx sites get registered it'll make it even EASIER for kids to find porn now.
And easier for parents to block.
Well... If they so choose to educate themselves on the matter in order out how to set their router firewall to block all *.xxx connections.
Not that kids have been looking at their parents porn mags and adult video tapes for the past 20 years. Truth be told... Porn never hurt any kids. Uncaring parents too disinterested in the welfare of their kids have.
Teach your kids to be sexual healthy and not sexually repressed.
Otherwise they are going to learn the hard way... You know... Teen pregnancy and STDs.
Re:You have misinterpeted it
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I know this is offtopic, but when they said "Don't take the lord's name in vain!" they weren't talking about litterally saying "Don't say his name in combination of a curse word!"
Rather they meant, don't do things in God's name that isn't in God's name.
You know... Like pass law's in the name of God. Wage a war in God's name. Tell everyone God told you to have them give you their money so you can wallow in women and wine when God really didn't tell you that. Things like that...
The phrase God damnit is more or less from "God damn's (something)" or something like excommunicating some one to an eternal damnation in hell.
Truth be told... God is from the old English/German word acenstory of Goden, Gud, or Gott (etc) and if you were going to take the Bible literally you'd have to say "Yaweh damnit!" or "Jehovah damnit!" to take god's true name in vain. Because God really isn't God's true name in a sense but rather a reference to the only god in the universe.
However for some reason it doesn't roll off the tongue as nice when you say "Yaweh damnit!"
Hey, if they didn't propose half-baked sollutions, they might actually have to do real work.
Well if they produced real solutions, they'd never get enough votes from one side or another to pass the idea.
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You have got to be kidding. To even have a BASIC understanding of evolution you have to know that it means species evolve to fit new environments.
Actually it isn't just that... (Well if you include evolving because other species are eating you, but that could be lumped into 'environment')
It is that mutations are random and often times ill suited for their environment, but it is only a matter of chance that something survives to pass on its genes. Whether it is not being eaten into extinction by another species, not over populating until you destroy existing resources and then you go extinct, not dying because of an ice age, or not being wiped out by a meteor.
One can say... Well that was the environment that killed off those species... Well it isn't because that the species evolved to adapt to the environment, but only those whose random mutations made them more suited for the environment survived.
As in... If you put a million grizzly bear in the polar region none of them are going to spontaneously evolve his fur white more like a polar bear because that was the best choice.
However, if any of those bears happened to spontaneously mutate into where their hair turned white making them better hunters so that the seals couldn't see them. Then those species may actually do better than there brown counterparts and may survive in times of hardship where as the browns die out.
What I am trying to say is that any mutation that doesn't kill off the species will continue in the species, but it is more probable that mutations that allow a species to survive will get passed on.
Take our appendix for example... What the hell does that do?
It may or may not have had some purpose in the past, but we simply don't evolve it away because it doesn't kill us so we pass it on to the next generation.
Basically, evolution isn't about mutating into the best possible creature for the environment, but rather we mutate constantly and the mutations that kill us don't get passed on.
Now that leads to the question "What really causes DNA mutations?"
Chances are it could be do to higher radiation events during magnetic pole reversals or gamma ray bursts where the radiation is so high that many species die of cancer and health problems, but those who do survive have random mutations. After that... Any mutation that doesn't kill the species off due to environmental factors passes those genes on.
You act like MS is the only company that does this.
Well to be fair... None of the other companies EULAs absolve Micrsoft of anything.
The 3rd party software company's tech support on the other hand... Well they generally throw their arms up and blame the hard ware vendor, who in turn throws their arms up and blames Microsoft, who in turn blames you for not reading their EULA.
Personally, I'd like to see Ultima Online circa year 1998 again.
Without the bugs, cheats, and duping of course. For some reason, even with its dated engine, Ultima Online was fun because of its unlimited freedom it gave the players. Of course, players kind of used this to go on mass murdering sprees of godly proportions and many people didn't like that and complained and we ended up with the UO that we have today which kind of blows.
Of course, I'm convinced that THEY will find US, and they'll be far more advanced than us. The only question is - when?
If you subscribe to Singularist type of thinking, we can assume that either there are no other life forms of intelligence in the universe or we are just the first.
Otherwise, wouldn't notice the universe being metabolized into a supercomputer in order to solve great questions like "Can the second law of thermodynamics be reversed?"?
Unless of course The Last Question isn't so complicated after all and they don't need to use all the matter in the universe to figure it out (or have found another method to go about this computation).
The guy grabbed $3000 worth of lumber, got a cashier drunk, and then convinced him to ring it all up for $30. That's theft, no matter how you slice it.
Oh... So that is why Home Depot smells like whiskey! You'd think they have rules against drinking on the job especially with all the power tools involved.
Since the ISP's that get their funding this way will be able to charge their end users less, you'll start to see lower cost (to the consumer) ISP's popping up who get their funding from the sites they provide high bandwidth to.
WHAT?!
You must be joking. Do you seriously think they will pass the savings onto the consumers?
My cable bill has only gone up in the past 5 years and yet it didn't cost them any more to provide me the service then than it does now. Why am I being charged more? You say there is more people eating their bandwidth? Wha-wha-what? If they have more customers then the price for them should be going down and not up because they are making more money.
Natural selection simply works because a certain species is capable to stay in existence. Sometimes being stupid and just breed is more efficient than being intelligent.
I think it is a bit more than just breading, but it is true about existing... Or rather... Extermination of a species.
Technically, dinosaurs are actually the end goal of evolution. It wasn't about out breeding the other species, but about being able to eat or not be eaten by other species.
In truth... Really large and beastly creatures are the end goal of evolution because they can eat any other species and they tend to not be eaten and therefore continue to breed.
However, I think Homo Sapiens are a fluke in that... The dinosaurs had to die off in order for them to come around, or at least be able to set foot on the planet surface without getting gulped by a T-Rex.
The reason of course man has now become superior species is that he has found other ways to kill animals (fire, spears, guns) without having to be a 20 meter tall beast that could swallow a car. I wouldn't call this evolution, but rather stupid luck.
The universe is probaly teeming with life, but most other planets are populated by unitelligent beasts the size of small building that only breed and eat other smaller animals.
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edit: this one is for you, and yes i have drank it and yes it was delicious!(come get me) [image of miller lite]
Did he drink it on school grounds? Was he intoxicated at school?
Or did he drink this at home... Or maybe in Mexico?
You can't simply suspend a student because he says he drinks alcohol (he might be making it up). There would have to be hard evidence that it is on school ground or leading to bad behavior on school grounds.
Otherwise we'd have kids being supsended for drinking wine at Sunday mass.
The more and more I look at Vanguard reminds me of EQ with all their faults. Lot of grinding, no instances, heaven for griefers and gold farmers.
Ah... I was under the impression they were bashing anything "Grind-esque" and lumping WoW and EQ into the same branch of game play. WoW and EQ are pretty much the same to me except WoW is easier (and more fun) to play and has taken care of a great deal of problems EQ had.
I was thinking they were scraping both for something new, but it appears by what everyone is saying that it is just EQ with a new game engine instead. Ah well.
I think Eve is very much alive and kicking and Ultima Online is shambling along it isn't mutated form. Ultima Online doesn't require massive level grinding... Perhaps casual play for 6 months and hard core for about 2-3 if you wanted to max a character out. The key feature I always liked about UO wasn't that you were constantly grinding but you could go out and do things other than level progression.
"To the detriment of Vanguard, they (Vanguard's community) will protest any implementation that even remotely resembles a mechanic within World of Warcraft. Good or bad, it doesn't matter. If it's something within WoW, they want it O-U-T."
Even though WoW is fun (and addicting), if I was playing another game it would be rather annoying to see WoW with just another game engine slapped over it. If you want to play WoW, then it is already there and waiting for you.
For those who want to play something different... Well... It would be nice to have sometehing other than the old "kill things over and over to level up to kill bigger things over and over again to level up to kill bigger things over and over again" because that is pretty much the same formula of WoW, EQ 1/2, and every other MMOG known the man these days. (SWG and UO rest in peace)
Lawyers ought to have a hippocratic oath, just like doctors... "Do no harm". Not sure how that fits with defending a murder suspect, but it certainly seems wrong for them to (ab)use someone's name like this...
It fits even for that. Especially if the murder suspect is innocent.
And remember, everyone is innocent until proven guilty.
As absurd as it seems... If 20 people see you kill someone in public, on camera broadcasted to thousands of witnesses, you are innocent until the jury hands you a guilty verdict.
No ifs, ands, or buts.
Then I suddenly realized that these sims are programmed to age and eventually die! I then started another family which I care much less about and refuse to load my original family because I can't bear the thought not only of their permanent passing - but of the distress it will cause the other sims!
Really? Most of my sims end up starving to death in puddle of their own urine after being walled up in a windowsless/doorless house.
So hey, why not wait a few more years and risk being "revived"?
Judge: "All in favor of waiting a few years of being alive say "Aye""
Doctors, Nurses, Lawyers, and Culture of Lifers at the bedside: "Aye!"
Judge: "All those opposed... Say "Nay!""
Patient: "..."
Judge: "The "Ayes" have it!"
allofmp3.com violates the spirit of the law
American women walking around without a husband or male family member violates the spirt of the law in Saudi Arabia.
An american posting a blog that is critical of the Chinese government violates the spirt of the law in China.
Yet I don't see them clamoring for us to change our "evil" ways.
Cultural relativism is alive and well. You simply have to accept this as a fact whether you agree with another nations policies or not. Other nations do not believe in the same things we believe in... With a country that just spent 70 some odd years to where every intellectual property made was deemed "property of the people" (aka Soviet State), it is kind of expected they aren't going to respect IP the same way we do.
Sometimes we shouldn't be going over to other nations and telling them to change their ways because there may come a day in which they'll be tempted to do the same way.
I'm sure in some off the wall nation it is quite legal for me to murder someone over an insult and beat my children til they die because they disobeyed me, but I'd rather not see that become legal here.
You know what they say...
Infinite monkies... Infinite typewriters... Hamelet? Oh never mind.
The Wiki article isn't too informative and I'm kind of late to the game... I mean we know he sued because he doesn't like GPL, but why doesn't he like GPL? Does he own a closed sourcesoftware buseinss that was trying to compete with Linux? Or is he a paid shill? Or did RMS insult him at a comic book convention? Maybe Linus wrote a scathing reply to his ponies request inclusion to the Linux kernel?
The Wiki and other articles is very uninformative of who this guy is and his motivations and why he would even go out of his way to this. It is like the man spontaneously came into existence just to sue.
Although people have sued other over less...
earl Jam is also pretty opposed to the MTV way of music video, they only had 2 music videos on MTV their entire career.
MTV plays music videos?
Secondly, if .xxx sites get registered it'll make it even EASIER for kids to find porn now.
And easier for parents to block.
Well... If they so choose to educate themselves on the matter in order out how to set their router firewall to block all *.xxx connections.
Not that kids have been looking at their parents porn mags and adult video tapes for the past 20 years. Truth be told... Porn never hurt any kids. Uncaring parents too disinterested in the welfare of their kids have.
Teach your kids to be sexual healthy and not sexually repressed.
Otherwise they are going to learn the hard way... You know... Teen pregnancy and STDs.
I know this is offtopic, but when they said "Don't take the lord's name in vain!" they weren't talking about litterally saying "Don't say his name in combination of a curse word!"
Rather they meant, don't do things in God's name that isn't in God's name.
You know... Like pass law's in the name of God. Wage a war in God's name. Tell everyone God told you to have them give you their money so you can wallow in women and wine when God really didn't tell you that. Things like that...
The phrase God damnit is more or less from "God damn's (something)" or something like excommunicating some one to an eternal damnation in hell.
Truth be told... God is from the old English/German word acenstory of Goden, Gud, or Gott (etc) and if you were going to take the Bible literally you'd have to say "Yaweh damnit!" or "Jehovah damnit!" to take god's true name in vain. Because God really isn't God's true name in a sense but rather a reference to the only god in the universe.
However for some reason it doesn't roll off the tongue as nice when you say "Yaweh damnit!"
Hey, if they didn't propose half-baked sollutions, they might actually have to do real work.
Well if they produced real solutions, they'd never get enough votes from one side or another to pass the idea.
You have got to be kidding. To even have a BASIC understanding of evolution you have to know that it means species evolve to fit new environments.
Actually it isn't just that... (Well if you include evolving because other species are eating you, but that could be lumped into 'environment')
It is that mutations are random and often times ill suited for their environment, but it is only a matter of chance that something survives to pass on its genes. Whether it is not being eaten into extinction by another species, not over populating until you destroy existing resources and then you go extinct, not dying because of an ice age, or not being wiped out by a meteor.
One can say... Well that was the environment that killed off those species... Well it isn't because that the species evolved to adapt to the environment, but only those whose random mutations made them more suited for the environment survived.
As in... If you put a million grizzly bear in the polar region none of them are going to spontaneously evolve his fur white more like a polar bear because that was the best choice.
However, if any of those bears happened to spontaneously mutate into where their hair turned white making them better hunters so that the seals couldn't see them. Then those species may actually do better than there brown counterparts and may survive in times of hardship where as the browns die out.
What I am trying to say is that any mutation that doesn't kill off the species will continue in the species, but it is more probable that mutations that allow a species to survive will get passed on.
Take our appendix for example... What the hell does that do?
It may or may not have had some purpose in the past, but we simply don't evolve it away because it doesn't kill us so we pass it on to the next generation.
Basically, evolution isn't about mutating into the best possible creature for the environment, but rather we mutate constantly and the mutations that kill us don't get passed on.
Now that leads to the question "What really causes DNA mutations?"
Chances are it could be do to higher radiation events during magnetic pole reversals or gamma ray bursts where the radiation is so high that many species die of cancer and health problems, but those who do survive have random mutations. After that... Any mutation that doesn't kill the species off due to environmental factors passes those genes on.
You act like MS is the only company that does this.
Well to be fair... None of the other companies EULAs absolve Micrsoft of anything.
The 3rd party software company's tech support on the other hand... Well they generally throw their arms up and blame the hard ware vendor, who in turn throws their arms up and blames Microsoft, who in turn blames you for not reading their EULA.
Personally, I'd like to see Ultima Online circa year 1998 again.
Without the bugs, cheats, and duping of course. For some reason, even with its dated engine, Ultima Online was fun because of its unlimited freedom it gave the players. Of course, players kind of used this to go on mass murdering sprees of godly proportions and many people didn't like that and complained and we ended up with the UO that we have today which kind of blows.
Of course, I'm convinced that THEY will find US, and they'll be far more advanced than us. The only question is - when?
If you subscribe to Singularist type of thinking, we can assume that either there are no other life forms of intelligence in the universe or we are just the first.
Otherwise, wouldn't notice the universe being metabolized into a supercomputer in order to solve great questions like "Can the second law of thermodynamics be reversed?"?
Unless of course The Last Question isn't so complicated after all and they don't need to use all the matter in the universe to figure it out (or have found another method to go about this computation).
But when you listen to their commercials,
Who listens to their comercials? I'm too busy watching the lobster or that guy do a Beavis and Butthead dance in the background.
As much as we hate the NSA and other invasive orginizations they impose structure and laws. Chaos is the alternative.
Emperor Palpatine, is that you?
The guy grabbed $3000 worth of lumber, got a cashier drunk, and then convinced him to ring it all up for $30. That's theft, no matter how you slice it.
Oh... So that is why Home Depot smells like whiskey! You'd think they have rules against drinking on the job especially with all the power tools involved.
Since the ISP's that get their funding this way will be able to charge their end users less, you'll start to see lower cost (to the consumer) ISP's popping up who get their funding from the sites they provide high bandwidth to.
WHAT?!
You must be joking. Do you seriously think they will pass the savings onto the consumers?
My cable bill has only gone up in the past 5 years and yet it didn't cost them any more to provide me the service then than it does now. Why am I being charged more? You say there is more people eating their bandwidth? Wha-wha-what? If they have more customers then the price for them should be going down and not up because they are making more money.
Where does that put me in your example?
Very frustrated.
The exhaustive results of google search is one thing, but making suggestions to illegal activity in the toolbar is taking it a bit over the line.
Not only that, but until recently Google kept suggesting I could buy slaves on eBay when I was looking for information on the American Civil War.
Natural selection simply works because a certain species is capable to stay in existence. Sometimes being stupid and just breed is more efficient than being intelligent.
I think it is a bit more than just breading, but it is true about existing... Or rather... Extermination of a species.
Technically, dinosaurs are actually the end goal of evolution. It wasn't about out breeding the other species, but about being able to eat or not be eaten by other species.
In truth... Really large and beastly creatures are the end goal of evolution because they can eat any other species and they tend to not be eaten and therefore continue to breed.
However, I think Homo Sapiens are a fluke in that... The dinosaurs had to die off in order for them to come around, or at least be able to set foot on the planet surface without getting gulped by a T-Rex.
The reason of course man has now become superior species is that he has found other ways to kill animals (fire, spears, guns) without having to be a 20 meter tall beast that could swallow a car. I wouldn't call this evolution, but rather stupid luck.
The universe is probaly teeming with life, but most other planets are populated by unitelligent beasts the size of small building that only breed and eat other smaller animals.