Not entirely true. You can make the same key on a macro perform different functions with each press. If we cast both spells with a single press you are correct.
I actually like that idea. If you were a weapon smith maybe you could have a shop (after earning enough money for one) where your lower level characters and your other friends could buy goods.
During game play you might have to collect the goods needed to produce the items while you were offline, so your shop could run out of goods but you would get the profits.
Since Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Game Stop, and all the others will stop carying these games once they are all made AO which means even most 18+ consumers will stop buying them I must wonder what games you develope?
"(no video games have been banned in the United States, by the way)"
Requiring an AO rating is very nearly the same thing as banning it. There are so few distribution points for such a game it becomes nearly impossible to make back the production cost. This means that a publisher will probably not allow the developers game to be shipped at all since they will not make their money back.
Just because you don't officially ban something doesn't mean you can't make it economically unviable.
I think most people consider "writing down your password" to mean use a pen to write on a piece of paper, which is amazingly more difficult to share on a P2P network (especially if you don't have a scanner). It should be obvious to most who think of "writing down your password" as storing it on a computer that it needs to be stored in an encrypted format.
Doing so certianly allows people to use more secure passwords and a wider veriety of them. By saying you have to memorize your password you are also saying use the same password on everything.
I have no doubt that you would stand up and disagree with what was being said, but I wonder if anyone would listen. Being in the middle ground isn't very newsworthy. No one is going to write an article in a national publication saying millions of Americans agree that moderation is good.
I generally look at the media as flame bait. They don't publish anything the don't think will get someone excited. I have seen Christians stand up on Slashdot and say the disagreed with the extremists, but how many people responded to them? Most people seemed to go on as if they had never posted. It seems to me that it is hard to be heard when you say something reasonable, but everyone notices the idiot; and why not the idiot is more fun to make fun of?
I would disagree with the princible that anonymous travel is not a constitutional right. As other posters have mentioned, the US Constitution grants all rights not explicetly discussed in the Constitution to the states and the people. I don't remember anything in the Constitution saying we can't travel anonymously.
In some was it is perhapse absurd to say that we can travel without anonynimity. When you go on a vaction somewhere how many of the people there know who you are or will remember afterward? If you don't do anything illegel whatever happens while you are gone will not affect your reputation unless you tell people about it.
"Everything you buy with a credit card is kept in a database for who knows how long, for one example."
This data is only stored as long as is required by government regulation. Interest rates at their current level painful for banking institutions so now is not the time to throw money away at storing large quantities of unnecessary data in offsite facilities. It is also worthwile noting that banks are required by government regulation to have higher security standards then most government agencies.
Since web browsers make an exact copy of the pages you view, at least in memory and for images a more persistent copy in the cache, does that mean you are in copyright violation if you view a webpage that has copyrighted material?
Make sure you clean your cache after visiting those porn sites, we wouldn't want any accidental infringement.
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Not entirely true. You can make the same key on a macro perform different functions with each press. If we cast both spells with a single press you are correct.
I actually like that idea. If you were a weapon smith maybe you could have a shop (after earning enough money for one) where your lower level characters and your other friends could buy goods. During game play you might have to collect the goods needed to produce the items while you were offline, so your shop could run out of goods but you would get the profits.
That's why I quite WoW. PvP is fun, but it needs to be suplementable with something besides raids.
Since Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Game Stop, and all the others will stop carying these games once they are all made AO which means even most 18+ consumers will stop buying them I must wonder what games you develope?
"(no video games have been banned in the United States, by the way)"
Requiring an AO rating is very nearly the same thing as banning it. There are so few distribution points for such a game it becomes nearly impossible to make back the production cost. This means that a publisher will probably not allow the developers game to be shipped at all since they will not make their money back.
Just because you don't officially ban something doesn't mean you can't make it economically unviable.
I could see enforceing this through Algebra, but pushing it into Calculus might be a bit much. Unless I'm the only one who had Calc in High School.
I agree that they should know how to do this. Wouldn't the easy solution be to disallow calculators on the test?
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I think most people consider "writing down your password" to mean use a pen to write on a piece of paper, which is amazingly more difficult to share on a P2P network (especially if you don't have a scanner). It should be obvious to most who think of "writing down your password" as storing it on a computer that it needs to be stored in an encrypted format.
Doing so certianly allows people to use more secure passwords and a wider veriety of them. By saying you have to memorize your password you are also saying use the same password on everything.
I have no doubt that you would stand up and disagree with what was being said, but I wonder if anyone would listen. Being in the middle ground isn't very newsworthy. No one is going to write an article in a national publication saying millions of Americans agree that moderation is good.
I generally look at the media as flame bait. They don't publish anything the don't think will get someone excited. I have seen Christians stand up on Slashdot and say the disagreed with the extremists, but how many people responded to them? Most people seemed to go on as if they had never posted. It seems to me that it is hard to be heard when you say something reasonable, but everyone notices the idiot; and why not the idiot is more fun to make fun of?
I would disagree with the princible that anonymous travel is not a constitutional right. As other posters have mentioned, the US Constitution grants all rights not explicetly discussed in the Constitution to the states and the people. I don't remember anything in the Constitution saying we can't travel anonymously.
In some was it is perhapse absurd to say that we can travel without anonynimity. When you go on a vaction somewhere how many of the people there know who you are or will remember afterward? If you don't do anything illegel whatever happens while you are gone will not affect your reputation unless you tell people about it.
"Everything you buy with a credit card is kept in a database for who knows how long, for one example."
This data is only stored as long as is required by government regulation. Interest rates at their current level painful for banking institutions so now is not the time to throw money away at storing large quantities of unnecessary data in offsite facilities. It is also worthwile noting that banks are required by government regulation to have higher security standards then most government agencies.
Since web browsers make an exact copy of the pages you view, at least in memory and for images a more persistent copy in the cache, does that mean you are in copyright violation if you view a webpage that has copyrighted material? Make sure you clean your cache after visiting those porn sites, we wouldn't want any accidental infringement.