My friend in the Army told me about how they had persons for Bush come around and encourage them to vote for him come election time. He had a high opinion of his unit from what I heard, but he didn't like the politics involved in the system mostly involving pay and leave and other promotions issues.
I had a relative on the other hand was in the Marines, he didn't think highly of his superiors and called them a bunch of Communists and brainwashers. He served his 4 years all the way to the end (he guarded Navel ships in the middle east bases before 2002 so was a bit jumpy), but his personal opinion was that you needed to people to make decisions on their own rather than follow orders since often times you will be in a situation in combat where you don't have time to call to get orders.
You remember the plot to Transformers, right? Deceptacons get some idea and go do something in order to get more energy cubes and then the Autobots show up and then they are shooting at each other until the Decepticons give up on the idea and go home. Thats about sums up most of the episodes... That and Megatron has to turn into a gun once per episode and maybe every tenth episode the Insectacons show up or the robots that transform into bigger robots show up.
Yeah, if you look it up online it's rather deceptive.
It's one of those things that you sort of notice when you live there. According to most info sites Atlanta has about 500,000 people in Atlanta proper. Which is actually quite small, but if you count the area out side of Dekalb, Gwinnett, Cobb, and various other counties withing in the interstate loop and on the outskirts of 285, you have about 2 million + people in the area all going too and from Atlanta. Now this is subject to debate even with people from the area saying that you must havea 404 area code or live within 285 even though people living in Norcross say they live in Atlanta.
Now the reverse is for Philly. There is about 1.4 million people living in Philly. However, I encounter quite less traffic on the 4 lane highways here vs the 10 lane highways than I would in Atlanta. Maybe more people cars down there... I dunno, but there are actually more people moving too and from the city in Atlanta.
If hydrogen is hard to transport then why not just put the water and the sodium in the car and make the hydrogen on the fly in the car itself?
However, I would suspect this might take a larger fuel tank of water than you can put in a car and require one to dump out waste of used up water rather than burn it off.
Actually Atlanta is horrible for bikes, walking, and has really crappy public transportation called Marta (I hate them with a passion). It's one of the faster growing cities out there and has more people than say Philadelphia (where I live now) and it seems that Philly has more bike lanes and Septa seems to be quite better although the Subways don't really go anywhere really that great.
I'm talking about white kids... I know a great deal of people who I grew up with and even dated that shouldn't have kids.
If you don't intend to love your kids and give them everything you got instead of spending money on drugs and various other things then you shouldn't be having kids. Period.
Maybe I grew up with shady people as friends and wonder how myself survived intact, but if you decide to bring someone into this world and turn their world into a pile of shit because you weren't a decent human being then I think there is something wrong with the world if they have a right to do that.
It's still not $200,000 dollars if you get caught stealing at the store.
A good lawyer wouldn't even cost a fraction of that to defend you for shop lifting theft and you'd probaly get about 48 hours in jail and 6 weeks community service, but not have to declare bankrupty and spend 5 years in jail.
Heck... If you plea bargin and the store doesn't press charges they might just drop the charges. I don't think you'd get the same treatment with IP violations.
I tell them I belong to the "Moderate Party" and they give a odd stare since such a thing does not exist, but I wish it did so thats what I keep saying.
What are they going to do? Sue them? In Barbados court? Or sue them in an American court and sent the Barbados ISP a bill that they'll throw in the trash.
The foreign leal system has to respect the others in order for this to work. Kind of like how Russian courts refuse to acknowledge the US courts Yukos bankruptcy claims.
However, you maybe on a point that since the persons hosting the site live in Europe or the States than the RIAA could write a nice large check to the ISP and have them drop a few names.
There is always Somalia or North Korea... Althought in one you'll have to defend the servers from nightly raids with an AK-47 and the other you'll have to enjoy a bit of old Stalinistic Indoctrination. Hrm... I wouldn't put the DPRK beyond warezing though.
You can't compare the real world with technology! If you did then you'd have to have a machine that is capable of duplicating the barber shop and then replicating the barber where you never pay the original barber and what I just said doesn't make much sense does it?
And if we were to agree that your analogy works for real life, we'd have to also consider that since you didn't pay the barber you would face some extreme punishment when caught say $200,000 fine or cruxification! For a $9 dollar hair cut!
Legally it's wrong, but morally... It's a gray area with software.
One should get credit and money for a job well done in software, but I think it's morally wrong to punish people with far greater force than you lost.
It's like shooting people who get caught for speeding. The punishment does not fit the crime!
Make the person when caught with the pirated software pay for the exact amount of what the software cost in the store. Not some $200,000 per copy.
I think the real problem lies with the fact too many people are having children who woudl rather not be having them.
No to say that the government should enforce population control, but perhaps more education and free birth control to a segment of the population that would actually want to not have the burden of having a child.
To wit, getting on TV and tearing up a picture of the Pope is just being a childish ass.
No, it's being very iconoclaustic. If I were a Protestant in the middle ages I'd be burning pictures of popes left and right and stomping on Catholic holy images all the time. That and quartering Catholic traitors to the Crown or resistors to the Northern Germany Nobles... But that is beside the point.
The point is that if you hold an image holy then by default you might be making an idol out of it, and if you tore it up in protest of your leaders then by all means do so.
Also, there was no mention of Hell in the Old Testament.
I would like this explained.
Did God, create hell after Jesus or did he not care enough about his choosen people to warn them about hell? As far as I have come to find is that most modern Jews do not believe in hell as most Christians define it.
I think that the router would have been more for the benefit of non-technical households who do not already have a router and wish to be online who own maybe one computer without a router.
This would allow kids to have PS3 online access on Xmas morning without having to bug their parents to run out and buy a router or unplug the computer.
Of course with the increase of routers in the common household it may have been a deciding factor to not include this.
The fact that the PS2 in my old apartment played DVDs prevented me from buying a stand alone dvd player.
Last night, at a friends house, we watched Electric Boogeleboo on an Xbox after they realized hooking the stand alone DVD player would be more effort than plugging in the DVD remote for the Xbox.
That said, I don't really know if either scenarios would have made a difference on the purchasing of an PS2 or an Xbox, but one of the factors I weighed into buying an Xbox over a Gamecube was that it could play DVDs even though I never have even played a DVD on the damn thing since it's purchase. (it was an impulse buy on the way home from work since I had some extra cash to blow and it was either than or $149 worth of alcohol)
I think it's more important that copyrights exist in order to prevent others from taking your work and then slapping their name on it and selling it as their own or making copies and selling it without your authorization on the streets where the customer thinks they are buying a legitimate copy.
However, if someone says this is such and suchs work and puts it on their own media and gives proper credit it is my belief that it should be legal to do so.
This might seem strange, but copyrights were never really intended to extract money from the populace, but rather promote science and arts and to credit where credit is due.
You get asked theoretical questions in the interview process which have no right or wrong answer and may seem at least odd.
Then score you on your reaction to paradox as they call it. It also roots out people who really weren't interested in the job. I remember when I was being interviewed the guy next to me walked out stating "I didn't go to 4 years of college to take more tests!"
It occurred to me at that point that these tests work quite well.
Yeah, I'd think the purists would be rather upset if you prevented Jesus's cruxifition or altered the timeline in which Jesus was never born.
You could however have fictional characters living in that time frame who interact with the main characters in cutscenes and then go off and do their own thing. Like Bob, who hears about Jesus and must make his way to Jeruselem and encouters mini-quests on the way.
However, I will always be highly suspect of any group that sells Religion for money wheather it be music, books, or video games. Most motivation tends to be with money rather than actual salvation.
If someone were to give these games away for free out of a labor of love then you have a bit more moral highground.
The way I deal with it, is to believe there is infinite amount of time in universe and multi-verse (ie there is a probability that other universes will exist even though this one may end through Heat Death or the Big Crunch).
Therefore, there is infinite time for anything to happen. You exist don't you? Or at least think you are self aware? Now what is the probability of that happening? Very very extremely low... Not only did you not have to not die today, but you had to survive up until this point and before that your parents had to meet and you be born and their parents had survive to me and bear them. Not only survive but actually meet.
When you throw in the fact that we haven't been hit with a meteor or blew our selves up or just gotten sucked up in a neutron star passing in a span of 4 billion years, I'd say the figures of your probability statistics of existing are very very very low.
But you exist? Right?
So with that in mind, anything that relies on extreme amounts of time can be possible (or at least theoretical). I mean given enough time it's possible that all matter in the universe will cease to exist.
Basically, life and evolution is just the universe trying to try all possible combinations. Since it has unlimited or at least a very large scale of time at it's disposal, it can eventually create a working combination that leads to intelligent life or at least beings that are aware of themselves to ask these kind of questions about where did they come from?
I don't eat meat because it tends to give me the craps because of my intolerence to eColi bacteria. Of course I'm lactose interolerant as well (I can eat cheese, but I get ill if I drink milk), but I don't eat meat and don't drink milk because of moral reasons.
However I still like the taste of meat and often cheat even though the results will often cause a massive punishment of the throne, but if they can make ecoli-less meat then I'm all for it.
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My friend in the Army told me about how they had persons for Bush come around and encourage them to vote for him come election time. He had a high opinion of his unit from what I heard, but he didn't like the politics involved in the system mostly involving pay and leave and other promotions issues.
I had a relative on the other hand was in the Marines, he didn't think highly of his superiors and called them a bunch of Communists and brainwashers. He served his 4 years all the way to the end (he guarded Navel ships in the middle east bases before 2002 so was a bit jumpy), but his personal opinion was that you needed to people to make decisions on their own rather than follow orders since often times you will be in a situation in combat where you don't have time to call to get orders.
He's all action and SFX and little story or plot
You remember the plot to Transformers, right? Deceptacons get some idea and go do something in order to get more energy cubes and then the Autobots show up and then they are shooting at each other until the Decepticons give up on the idea and go home. Thats about sums up most of the episodes... That and Megatron has to turn into a gun once per episode and maybe every tenth episode the Insectacons show up or the robots that transform into bigger robots show up.
Yeah, if you look it up online it's rather deceptive.
It's one of those things that you sort of notice when you live there. According to most info sites Atlanta has about 500,000 people in Atlanta proper. Which is actually quite small, but if you count the area out side of Dekalb, Gwinnett, Cobb, and various other counties withing in the interstate loop and on the outskirts of 285, you have about 2 million + people in the area all going too and from Atlanta. Now this is subject to debate even with people from the area saying that you must havea 404 area code or live within 285 even though people living in Norcross say they live in Atlanta.
Now the reverse is for Philly. There is about 1.4 million people living in Philly. However, I encounter quite less traffic on the 4 lane highways here vs the 10 lane highways than I would in Atlanta. Maybe more people cars down there... I dunno, but there are actually more people moving too and from the city in Atlanta.
If hydrogen is hard to transport then why not just put the water and the sodium in the car and make the hydrogen on the fly in the car itself?
However, I would suspect this might take a larger fuel tank of water than you can put in a car and require one to dump out waste of used up water rather than burn it off.
Actually Atlanta is horrible for bikes, walking, and has really crappy public transportation called Marta (I hate them with a passion). It's one of the faster growing cities out there and has more people than say Philadelphia (where I live now) and it seems that Philly has more bike lanes and Septa seems to be quite better although the Subways don't really go anywhere really that great.
Is protectionism a factor in the same people many people would only buy domestic cars?
Only if the foreign car sellers put the steering wheel on the wrong side of the car for 25 years.
doesn't let you finish typing before it searches.
Actually, I enjoy this feature because I will often see what I am looking for before i finish typing and hence discontinue typing.
I'm talking about white kids... I know a great deal of people who I grew up with and even dated that shouldn't have kids.
If you don't intend to love your kids and give them everything you got instead of spending money on drugs and various other things then you shouldn't be having kids. Period.
Maybe I grew up with shady people as friends and wonder how myself survived intact, but if you decide to bring someone into this world and turn their world into a pile of shit because you weren't a decent human being then I think there is something wrong with the world if they have a right to do that.
It's still not $200,000 dollars if you get caught stealing at the store.
A good lawyer wouldn't even cost a fraction of that to defend you for shop lifting theft and you'd probaly get about 48 hours in jail and 6 weeks community service, but not have to declare bankrupty and spend 5 years in jail.
Heck... If you plea bargin and the store doesn't press charges they might just drop the charges. I don't think you'd get the same treatment with IP violations.
I tell them I belong to the "Moderate Party" and they give a odd stare since such a thing does not exist, but I wish it did so thats what I keep saying.
"So conservatives are pro-violence?"
;)
Only when God or Oil are involved. Otherwise mostly harmless.
What are they going to do? Sue them? In Barbados court? Or sue them in an American court and sent the Barbados ISP a bill that they'll throw in the trash.
The foreign leal system has to respect the others in order for this to work. Kind of like how Russian courts refuse to acknowledge the US courts Yukos bankruptcy claims.
However, you maybe on a point that since the persons hosting the site live in Europe or the States than the RIAA could write a nice large check to the ISP and have them drop a few names.
There is always Somalia or North Korea... Althought in one you'll have to defend the servers from nightly raids with an AK-47 and the other you'll have to enjoy a bit of old Stalinistic Indoctrination. Hrm... I wouldn't put the DPRK beyond warezing though.
"That codename sounds more fitting for script-kiddie basement hacking than a law enforcement operation."
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Actually, I first thought it was something to do with
You can't compare the real world with technology! If you did then you'd have to have a machine that is capable of duplicating the barber shop and then replicating the barber where you never pay the original barber and what I just said doesn't make much sense does it?
And if we were to agree that your analogy works for real life, we'd have to also consider that since you didn't pay the barber you would face some extreme punishment when caught say $200,000 fine or cruxification! For a $9 dollar hair cut!
Legally it's wrong, but morally... It's a gray area with software.
One should get credit and money for a job well done in software, but I think it's morally wrong to punish people with far greater force than you lost.
It's like shooting people who get caught for speeding. The punishment does not fit the crime!
Make the person when caught with the pirated software pay for the exact amount of what the software cost in the store. Not some $200,000 per copy.
I think the real problem lies with the fact too many people are having children who woudl rather not be having them. No to say that the government should enforce population control, but perhaps more education and free birth control to a segment of the population that would actually want to not have the burden of having a child.
To wit, getting on TV and tearing up a picture of the Pope is just being a childish ass.
No, it's being very iconoclaustic. If I were a Protestant in the middle ages I'd be burning pictures of popes left and right and stomping on Catholic holy images all the time. That and quartering Catholic traitors to the Crown or resistors to the Northern Germany Nobles... But that is beside the point.
The point is that if you hold an image holy then by default you might be making an idol out of it, and if you tore it up in protest of your leaders then by all means do so.
Also, there was no mention of Hell in the Old Testament.
I would like this explained.
Did God, create hell after Jesus or did he not care enough about his choosen people to warn them about hell? As far as I have come to find is that most modern Jews do not believe in hell as most Christians define it.
I think that the router would have been more for the benefit of non-technical households who do not already have a router and wish to be online who own maybe one computer without a router.
This would allow kids to have PS3 online access on Xmas morning without having to bug their parents to run out and buy a router or unplug the computer.
Of course with the increase of routers in the common household it may have been a deciding factor to not include this.
The fact that the PS2 in my old apartment played DVDs prevented me from buying a stand alone dvd player.
Last night, at a friends house, we watched Electric Boogeleboo on an Xbox after they realized hooking the stand alone DVD player would be more effort than plugging in the DVD remote for the Xbox.
That said, I don't really know if either scenarios would have made a difference on the purchasing of an PS2 or an Xbox, but one of the factors I weighed into buying an Xbox over a Gamecube was that it could play DVDs even though I never have even played a DVD on the damn thing since it's purchase. (it was an impulse buy on the way home from work since I had some extra cash to blow and it was either than or $149 worth of alcohol)
"At any rate, when your gadget can move Mt. Fuji, you shall have accomplished something."
That would be a Von Neumman machine, but the main problem you would face is actually getting the machines to stop.
I think it's more important that copyrights exist in order to prevent others from taking your work and then slapping their name on it and selling it as their own or making copies and selling it without your authorization on the streets where the customer thinks they are buying a legitimate copy.
However, if someone says this is such and suchs work and puts it on their own media and gives proper credit it is my belief that it should be legal to do so.
This might seem strange, but copyrights were never really intended to extract money from the populace, but rather promote science and arts and to credit where credit is due.
You get asked theoretical questions in the interview process which have no right or wrong answer and may seem at least odd.
Then score you on your reaction to paradox as they call it. It also roots out people who really weren't interested in the job. I remember when I was being interviewed the guy next to me walked out stating "I didn't go to 4 years of college to take more tests!"
It occurred to me at that point that these tests work quite well.
Yeah, I'd think the purists would be rather upset if you prevented Jesus's cruxifition or altered the timeline in which Jesus was never born.
You could however have fictional characters living in that time frame who interact with the main characters in cutscenes and then go off and do their own thing. Like Bob, who hears about Jesus and must make his way to Jeruselem and encouters mini-quests on the way.
However, I will always be highly suspect of any group that sells Religion for money wheather it be music, books, or video games. Most motivation tends to be with money rather than actual salvation.
If someone were to give these games away for free out of a labor of love then you have a bit more moral highground.
The way I deal with it, is to believe there is infinite amount of time in universe and multi-verse (ie there is a probability that other universes will exist even though this one may end through Heat Death or the Big Crunch).
Therefore, there is infinite time for anything to happen. You exist don't you? Or at least think you are self aware? Now what is the probability of that happening? Very very extremely low... Not only did you not have to not die today, but you had to survive up until this point and before that your parents had to meet and you be born and their parents had survive to me and bear them. Not only survive but actually meet.
When you throw in the fact that we haven't been hit with a meteor or blew our selves up or just gotten sucked up in a neutron star passing in a span of 4 billion years, I'd say the figures of your probability statistics of existing are very very very low.
But you exist? Right?
So with that in mind, anything that relies on extreme amounts of time can be possible (or at least theoretical). I mean given enough time it's possible that all matter in the universe will cease to exist.
Basically, life and evolution is just the universe trying to try all possible combinations. Since it has unlimited or at least a very large scale of time at it's disposal, it can eventually create a working combination that leads to intelligent life or at least beings that are aware of themselves to ask these kind of questions about where did they come from?
I don't eat meat because it tends to give me the craps because of my intolerence to eColi bacteria. Of course I'm lactose interolerant as well (I can eat cheese, but I get ill if I drink milk), but I don't eat meat and don't drink milk because of moral reasons.
However I still like the taste of meat and often cheat even though the results will often cause a massive punishment of the throne, but if they can make ecoli-less meat then I'm all for it.