I won't argue the need or lack of need for this protection, I only feel that the motto is a valid one. No, you can't be prepared for any situation, I agree, that's happened to me many a time, much as I tried to be prepared.
I don't see how this could not be auseful philosophy, unless I'm missing your argument. There's been plenty of times (granted, not with things of this scale) that I've had something on me no one else did, and I needed it. Duct Tape for instance. Been in the weirdest places when it came up, damn, we need duct tape, who the hell woulda brought it? Oh, Jon's got some, we're saved. And other times I decided not to bring it, because I figured I'd never need it. Bit me in the ass. Believe me, this is a philosophy that is very useful and I live by. I always carry spare tools/jumpers in my car, have a computer repair kit back there too. Coupla rolls of Duct Tape, and a (very good quality) North American map book, even if I'm just going down the street. Because you never know. I've got friends who've spent some time overseas in the military, they're worse then me. For them, to leave something useful behind could be the difference between life and death. So no, I don't think its just a motto, I think it's a very useful philosophy that we should all live by.
Incidentally, why include the vehicle registration? We're talking shit-hits-the-fan bad here, I'ma assume the mods flip and burn my car. And property? Have you seen riots recently? NYC is toast baby.
We all should be so unlucky! Perhaps if 1 and 2 didn't suck so bad more people woulda seen 3? I didn't pay for it in the theater, steal it from the internet, or borrow it off a friend, and am blissfully 3-free to this day.
There's been plenty of times I've had to fly (full-time student, as well as consultant, and webmaster) and sat for a few hours in an airport that just didn't have outlets, or on the plane, or wherever, and run out of batteries. Though I take my laptop (development system), I still prefer my desktop (game/multimedia system) due to the upgradability, the fact that it cost less then half what my laptop did (for a better system), and sheer dependability. Recently the screen on my laptop started wriggling, this isn't something I can fix, I'd have to pay dell to, but when my monitor crapped out on me, I just got a new one for $20 off a friend and plugged it in.
I completely agree with what you said. I'm currently working with some people coding a next-generation (we hope) MUD, and this is one thing we've talked about. Though, instead of us stepping in as admins, we're giving players enough power to deal with it.
For instance, players can build anywhere they want. I brought up, what if X person considers this room his, should we let him tear down Y's house. The response is, we don't have to let him. This is another (albeit virtual) world, let the inhabitants deal with it. If you don't like what's going on, you could hire an army to go take the land back for you. Etc, etc. I'ma ll in favor of pure in-game solutions, by pure I mean admins stay out, and let the players deal with it.
I for one would never look at any folders I didn't have to, because I have no reason to. If I tell someone I'll do X to their computer, I do X, and no more. It's like writing a proposal for a real contract, and if you need to do an additional Y, you ask permission first. If I found out you fixed my box, and happened to go look to see if I had porn, I would fire you immediatly, and, if we'd signed a contract about what you'd work on, sue you for breach of contract. Would you like it if the machanic took apart MORE of your car in hopes that you had spare weed int the hub caps? I'd like to think that most computer techs out there would have the same decency to leave someone else's stuff to them.
As for the tech finding stuff, well... if it was in plain sight (and I mean on the desktop, or in a folder he had good business being in) and IF it warrented the police, not "oh, this might be juicy", but another 9/11 or kiddie porn or whathave you, then sure, call 'em up. He'll tell 'em what he saw, they'll get a warrent (because of the extreme nature) and everything'll be nice and legal. However, going to the cops when it turns out it's nothing, and not even a legal nothing, this is again dispicable. I'd want to know that a warrent was served, just as much as if they searched my house while at home, because that's how the legal system is supposed to work.
Oh, and next time you wanna see pr0n of his 'wifey' why don't you just ask? Oh, that's right, because you know he'd kick your butt. How about growing some balls, and acting mature?
Privacy does *not* extend to whereever you want it. On your property, sure, you have the right to privacy. But when you enter someone else's property, their rules go. Every store that uses cameras has a sign somewhere or other that states they have them in use. If you don't like it, you don't go to the store.
As for the murder, and sweat shops, we have laws against those. As for holding others against their will, well, kidnapping anyone? Now, as for putting up cameras to protect your property (and yes, until you buy 'em the clothes are their property) that's completely legal. Look at every celebrity in the world, government installations, private businesses. If they can afford it, they have closed circut cameras to watch their property. This is completely in their right, as you are on their property.
If "Super Bowl" was an every day phrase, it would be "nothing new". But that's like saying they can't use Sunday (since that's the day its held on), "bowl" because it's part of the title, or the year, because its, well, the year it's held. Saying the "big game" is a great way around, but it looks like the IOC are making sure there's no round about way.
forget swords! These people are obvious terrorists and should be dealt with. Track back the IPs and carpet bomb 'em! On Ebay? well, WE don't negotitate with terrorists, therefore whoever does... well, lets just say, more carpet bombs!
I highly recommend this competition for a number of reasons.
1 - The puzzles are fairly good, and both speed and correctness are judged.
2 - There's a challenge phase, which gives practice reading through other people's source.
3 - It *is* a competition, and money can be won.
4 - Through the same site, free-lance programming can be found for some extra cash.
All in all, definatly worth checking out!
This only works when you find the body part that has the chip in it. In the Tsunami, great, you'll find whole bodies, easy to identify. In a bombing, you're gonna be recovering pieces of people, a finger here, a leg there, and you'll identify ONE part, not everything. On the other hand, once you can identify that one part, you could run tissue tests to match it with a suspected match, so the idea is not completely without merit.
for a Machine who's "internal workings will be so complex they won't be repeatable; you won't always get the same answer to a given question" would be quite fun... lemme see... I give it a rather complicated boolean, and it can give me two different answers? Kinda sounds like mood swings to me... hmm... that time of the nanosecond?
I completely agree. Especially to the legislation part, I think a much better solution is for parents to have amore of an active role with their kids. My family has friends who let their kids play Shoot 'em ups at a very young age, but daddy was right there with them, and they were also involved in a lot of other activities (sports, reading, etc). I'm very into computers (hence my being here) but am much more social then some of my not-very computer literate friends who just play games on it all day. You can see the difference in our personalities, and it is quite shocking.
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I won't argue the need or lack of need for this protection, I only feel that the motto is a valid one. No, you can't be prepared for any situation, I agree, that's happened to me many a time, much as I tried to be prepared.
I don't see how this could not be auseful philosophy, unless I'm missing your argument. There's been plenty of times (granted, not with things of this scale) that I've had something on me no one else did, and I needed it. Duct Tape for instance. Been in the weirdest places when it came up, damn, we need duct tape, who the hell woulda brought it? Oh, Jon's got some, we're saved. And other times I decided not to bring it, because I figured I'd never need it. Bit me in the ass. Believe me, this is a philosophy that is very useful and I live by. I always carry spare tools/jumpers in my car, have a computer repair kit back there too. Coupla rolls of Duct Tape, and a (very good quality) North American map book, even if I'm just going down the street. Because you never know. I've got friends who've spent some time overseas in the military, they're worse then me. For them, to leave something useful behind could be the difference between life and death. So no, I don't think its just a motto, I think it's a very useful philosophy that we should all live by.
Incidentally, why include the vehicle registration? We're talking shit-hits-the-fan bad here, I'ma assume the mods flip and burn my car. And property? Have you seen riots recently? NYC is toast baby.
Question: What do you call Microsoft being down $4 billion? Answer: A good start!
We all should be so unlucky! Perhaps if 1 and 2 didn't suck so bad more people woulda seen 3? I didn't pay for it in the theater, steal it from the internet, or borrow it off a friend, and am blissfully 3-free to this day.
There's been plenty of times I've had to fly (full-time student, as well as consultant, and webmaster) and sat for a few hours in an airport that just didn't have outlets, or on the plane, or wherever, and run out of batteries. Though I take my laptop (development system), I still prefer my desktop (game/multimedia system) due to the upgradability, the fact that it cost less then half what my laptop did (for a better system), and sheer dependability. Recently the screen on my laptop started wriggling, this isn't something I can fix, I'd have to pay dell to, but when my monitor crapped out on me, I just got a new one for $20 off a friend and plugged it in.
I'm just confused by all the punctuation
Do they get forced out of their server? Couldn't they just fire the guy if he worked for them?
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I completely agree with what you said. I'm currently working with some people coding a next-generation (we hope) MUD, and this is one thing we've talked about. Though, instead of us stepping in as admins, we're giving players enough power to deal with it. For instance, players can build anywhere they want. I brought up, what if X person considers this room his, should we let him tear down Y's house. The response is, we don't have to let him. This is another (albeit virtual) world, let the inhabitants deal with it. If you don't like what's going on, you could hire an army to go take the land back for you. Etc, etc. I'ma ll in favor of pure in-game solutions, by pure I mean admins stay out, and let the players deal with it.
I for one would never look at any folders I didn't have to, because I have no reason to. If I tell someone I'll do X to their computer, I do X, and no more. It's like writing a proposal for a real contract, and if you need to do an additional Y, you ask permission first. If I found out you fixed my box, and happened to go look to see if I had porn, I would fire you immediatly, and, if we'd signed a contract about what you'd work on, sue you for breach of contract. Would you like it if the machanic took apart MORE of your car in hopes that you had spare weed int the hub caps? I'd like to think that most computer techs out there would have the same decency to leave someone else's stuff to them. As for the tech finding stuff, well... if it was in plain sight (and I mean on the desktop, or in a folder he had good business being in) and IF it warrented the police, not "oh, this might be juicy", but another 9/11 or kiddie porn or whathave you, then sure, call 'em up. He'll tell 'em what he saw, they'll get a warrent (because of the extreme nature) and everything'll be nice and legal. However, going to the cops when it turns out it's nothing, and not even a legal nothing, this is again dispicable. I'd want to know that a warrent was served, just as much as if they searched my house while at home, because that's how the legal system is supposed to work. Oh, and next time you wanna see pr0n of his 'wifey' why don't you just ask? Oh, that's right, because you know he'd kick your butt. How about growing some balls, and acting mature?
Privacy does *not* extend to whereever you want it. On your property, sure, you have the right to privacy. But when you enter someone else's property, their rules go. Every store that uses cameras has a sign somewhere or other that states they have them in use. If you don't like it, you don't go to the store. As for the murder, and sweat shops, we have laws against those. As for holding others against their will, well, kidnapping anyone? Now, as for putting up cameras to protect your property (and yes, until you buy 'em the clothes are their property) that's completely legal. Look at every celebrity in the world, government installations, private businesses. If they can afford it, they have closed circut cameras to watch their property. This is completely in their right, as you are on their property.
If "Super Bowl" was an every day phrase, it would be "nothing new". But that's like saying they can't use Sunday (since that's the day its held on), "bowl" because it's part of the title, or the year, because its, well, the year it's held. Saying the "big game" is a great way around, but it looks like the IOC are making sure there's no round about way.
forget swords! These people are obvious terrorists and should be dealt with. Track back the IPs and carpet bomb 'em! On Ebay? well, WE don't negotitate with terrorists, therefore whoever does... well, lets just say, more carpet bombs!
Do you mean abhor, or adore?
Looked at from the other perspective... you have to be online to watch a DVD?!
I bought my present cell phone for $20... Perhaps a better title might be "Prices falling", or something?
I patented the burning of people being eaten by ants while beaten. That'll be $10 million.
By $10...
I highly recommend this competition for a number of reasons. 1 - The puzzles are fairly good, and both speed and correctness are judged. 2 - There's a challenge phase, which gives practice reading through other people's source. 3 - It *is* a competition, and money can be won. 4 - Through the same site, free-lance programming can be found for some extra cash. All in all, definatly worth checking out!
Many of us have been doing this for years, why does he get the press?!
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."
This only works when you find the body part that has the chip in it. In the Tsunami, great, you'll find whole bodies, easy to identify. In a bombing, you're gonna be recovering pieces of people, a finger here, a leg there, and you'll identify ONE part, not everything. On the other hand, once you can identify that one part, you could run tissue tests to match it with a suspected match, so the idea is not completely without merit.
for a Machine who's "internal workings will be so complex they won't be repeatable; you won't always get the same answer to a given question" would be quite fun... lemme see... I give it a rather complicated boolean, and it can give me two different answers? Kinda sounds like mood swings to me... hmm... that time of the nanosecond?
I completely agree. Especially to the legislation part, I think a much better solution is for parents to have amore of an active role with their kids. My family has friends who let their kids play Shoot 'em ups at a very young age, but daddy was right there with them, and they were also involved in a lot of other activities (sports, reading, etc). I'm very into computers (hence my being here) but am much more social then some of my not-very computer literate friends who just play games on it all day. You can see the difference in our personalities, and it is quite shocking.