The only logical response for a country with nukes but no antinukes is to launch the nukes NOW and eliminate the antinuke country before it turns into a onesided nuclear war.
So the logical response is to have a one-sided nuclear ware in order to avoid a one-sided nuclear war.
I think there's a flaw in my understanding of your logic.
I'd like to see a return of demos. Some are starting to do that via demo releases on STEAM and elsewhere, but "back in the day" circa 95-96 it seemed like a majority of "AA" and "AAA" titles had demos, usually distributed via game magazines with demo cds, which in turn made the magazines sell more (easier to buy the magazine than download everything via modem, and often cheaper too considering "pay by the hour" was still a common ISP business model).
I don't think we should go back to demo dvds to sell magazines, but using services like STEAM to make free demos available would be a big improvement over the paid-for "reviews" being pushed by game sites now, and would provide a relativly convenient location to find demos of games you haven't heard of, instead of the current situation of hearing about a game, sorting through all the previews and links to pay-for-download services to eventually find the publisher's download.
You could start blogging about it and pretending it'll make one damn bit of difference.
Sure, it won't REALLY accomplish anything, but maybe you and a couple hundred other like-minded bloggers can all get online and whine about it and convince yourselves it matters.
Perhaps the "purpose" of having social networks is defined by one's personality. My friends and I use it for keeping in touch with each other, so allowing things to be visible only to direct friends is a great solution for us. I don't care Maybe it goes against the trend of adding everyone you ever meet to your friends list, and being interested in what everyone THEY meet does/says/is interested in, but I think thats where personality comes in.
Take my slashdot setting for example - I've added a few people as "friends", and I do give their comments a + modifier so I'll see them. But "friend of a friend" doesn't get any special modifier. Of course, I also browse with a +5 filter and anything moderated "funny" gets a -6 modifier applied to it, and if there were a way to add modifiers based on comment text, there'd be more than a few words and phrases that'd get -6 modifiers as well. It is just the way I am, and I can't explain my lack of interest in who-knows-who-and-what-they-said.
I suspect there's a correlation between the people that like to know who likes what and who knows who and everything else about everyone they've meet and everyone those people have met, etc, and the people who eat up "celebrity" news.
True. Which is why it was the second option I suggested, the first being to keep your info private (as in, only your friends can even see you're on facebook) and to only add real friends (ie, not every single person you come into contact with).
I should have been more clear -- dvd quality rips, not dvd rips themselves. What you're referring to as "dvd screeners".
In any case, releasing dvds at the same time a movie is in the theatres won't have any effect on piracy, but it will have the effect of destroying the theatre industry. Personally, I'd be happy with that result.
You do know there's dvd rips of movies out on the net BEFORE they're ever shown in theatres, right? Studios send out preview dvds to reviewers, invariably they leak. Releasing DVDs at the same time as the theatre release would destroy the theatre industry as noted above, but it wouldn't increase piracy.
I guess I'm just not bothered by it, considering the amount of stuff I touch every single day that could be linked to my identity and and the two "stored in a database". Lets see. Wallet. Contents of wallet. Keys to vehicle (with license plates linked to me), interior of vehicle (with license plates linked to me). And thats just getting to work in the AM. Add to that any receipts from things you purchased with a debit or credit card, and then throw away (and yeah I believe the last four digits of a card number is probably enough for the alphabet soup agencies to confirm that it is you, especially if they already think it belongs to you). Not to mention there's always the old way of simply arresting and processing you, and then letting you go -- "Sorry sir, honest mistake, you resembled the person who is wanted for _____________, have a nice day".
If a government wants your prints (and identity, for whatever purpose) they'll get it. There's no point in getting pissed off about it.
I don't really care who does it. A sovereign country shouldn't be required to respect every law of every other country. Period. If the Japanese government requires fingerprinting to enter or leave the land of the rising sun, then that is their prerogative. If other Americans get pissed off about it, too damned bad. They have no say in how the Japanese Government operates, which is how it should be.
Too bad more of my fellow countrymen can't pull their heads out of their asses and realize that the USofA doesn't run the rest of the world (and shouldn't), and other countries are entitled to make their own rules.
We (Americans) "put up with it" because there's very little else out there, so its either put up with it or do without. I'm not going to say one or the other is better, just filling in some facts.
Personally, when I ditched dial-up, I also ditched the print magazines. There are times I miss them (as mentioned above, they did make great materials for quick bathroom reading) but I've traded game magazines for other hobby magazines that aren't quite as bad. Yet.
There's many people that have built their own CNC benchtop mills and lathes, usually starting with a ~$1000 manual mill or lathe and building the rest themselves, either from scratch or from a design and various kits.
Perhaps because that way it looks like a "normal" version of windows, and can go further to foster the "IT doesn't do anything special, my neighbor's 5 year old kid can do that" mentality that PHB's seem to have.
I'm not so sure that network solutions is completely innocent in all this. They're in it to make money, and if they can make money by selling records of whois requests, they'll do it. I've had similar experiences checking their whois service to see if a domain is registered, only to come back a couple of days later and find its now registered. First time I chalked it up to bad luck, second domain was too obscure to be bad luck.
I don't think network solutions is doing the snatching, I merely think they're selling the lookup information.
A watch/music player combo would most likely also be banned from those rooms as well, since it'd be considered to be portable data storage, much along the lines of, say, a USB drive.
Slashdot Mirror
Depending on where you hit Chicago, I'd venture to say parking a billion-dollar-spacecraft there would be a great improvement to the area.
Same for Duluth, Detroit, or any number of other cities on the lakes.
The only logical response for a country with nukes but no antinukes is to launch the nukes NOW and eliminate the antinuke country before it turns into a onesided nuclear war.
So the logical response is to have a one-sided nuclear ware in order to avoid a one-sided nuclear war.
I think there's a flaw in my understanding of your logic.
also a combination of "wonderful loot"
I'd like to see a return of demos. Some are starting to do that via demo releases on STEAM and elsewhere, but "back in the day" circa 95-96 it seemed like a majority of "AA" and "AAA" titles had demos, usually distributed via game magazines with demo cds, which in turn made the magazines sell more (easier to buy the magazine than download everything via modem, and often cheaper too considering "pay by the hour" was still a common ISP business model).
I don't think we should go back to demo dvds to sell magazines, but using services like STEAM to make free demos available would be a big improvement over the paid-for "reviews" being pushed by game sites now, and would provide a relativly convenient location to find demos of games you haven't heard of, instead of the current situation of hearing about a game, sorting through all the previews and links to pay-for-download services to eventually find the publisher's download.
You're probably confusing "conservative" with "neocon" or "republican".
Easy mistake to make, but annoying for those of us who were unable to stop the neocon take over the republican party.
Likewise, I'd imagine its annoying for old-school democrats to watch the moveon.org types hijack their party and try to take it to the other extreme.
Sigh.
You could start blogging about it and pretending it'll make one damn bit of difference.
Sure, it won't REALLY accomplish anything, but maybe you and a couple hundred other like-minded bloggers can all get online and whine about it and convince yourselves it matters.
By default XP and Vista both use NTFS, but they retain the ability to do (some) FAT32 formatting to keep the users happy.
If they dropped FAT32, there'd be bitching and moaning here about how MS is "forcing" users to use something else.
Perhaps the "purpose" of having social networks is defined by one's personality. My friends and I use it for keeping in touch with each other, so allowing things to be visible only to direct friends is a great solution for us. I don't care Maybe it goes against the trend of adding everyone you ever meet to your friends list, and being interested in what everyone THEY meet does/says/is interested in, but I think thats where personality comes in.
Take my slashdot setting for example - I've added a few people as "friends", and I do give their comments a + modifier so I'll see them. But "friend of a friend" doesn't get any special modifier. Of course, I also browse with a +5 filter and anything moderated "funny" gets a -6 modifier applied to it, and if there were a way to add modifiers based on comment text, there'd be more than a few words and phrases that'd get -6 modifiers as well. It is just the way I am, and I can't explain my lack of interest in who-knows-who-and-what-they-said.
I suspect there's a correlation between the people that like to know who likes what and who knows who and everything else about everyone they've meet and everyone those people have met, etc, and the people who eat up "celebrity" news.
True. Which is why it was the second option I suggested, the first being to keep your info private (as in, only your friends can even see you're on facebook) and to only add real friends (ie, not every single person you come into contact with).
Hide all your data. Add only the friends you want to be able to see your facebook page.
Or just not use Facebook in the first place.
I should have been more clear -- dvd quality rips, not dvd rips themselves. What you're referring to as "dvd screeners".
In any case, releasing dvds at the same time a movie is in the theatres won't have any effect on piracy, but it will have the effect of destroying the theatre industry. Personally, I'd be happy with that result.
You do know there's dvd rips of movies out on the net BEFORE they're ever shown in theatres, right? Studios send out preview dvds to reviewers, invariably they leak. Releasing DVDs at the same time as the theatre release would destroy the theatre industry as noted above, but it wouldn't increase piracy.
At least its canceled, which is part of what was desired in the first place.
I guess I'm just not bothered by it, considering the amount of stuff I touch every single day that could be linked to my identity and and the two "stored in a database". Lets see. Wallet. Contents of wallet. Keys to vehicle (with license plates linked to me), interior of vehicle (with license plates linked to me). And thats just getting to work in the AM. Add to that any receipts from things you purchased with a debit or credit card, and then throw away (and yeah I believe the last four digits of a card number is probably enough for the alphabet soup agencies to confirm that it is you, especially if they already think it belongs to you). Not to mention there's always the old way of simply arresting and processing you, and then letting you go -- "Sorry sir, honest mistake, you resembled the person who is wanted for _____________, have a nice day".
If a government wants your prints (and identity, for whatever purpose) they'll get it. There's no point in getting pissed off about it.
I don't really care who does it. A sovereign country shouldn't be required to respect every law of every other country. Period. If the Japanese government requires fingerprinting to enter or leave the land of the rising sun, then that is their prerogative. If other Americans get pissed off about it, too damned bad. They have no say in how the Japanese Government operates, which is how it should be.
to block doubleclick
Adblock, hosts file, iptables, surfing the net with lynx, etc. Pick a method you like and enjoy life without doubleclick.
Well, if you're THAT worried about your fingerprints, don't touch anything, anywhere, ever.
If a government wants your fingerprints, it'll get them. Period.
Loosen the tinfoil hat, I think its cutting off some much needed circulation.
Well said.
Too bad more of my fellow countrymen can't pull their heads out of their asses and realize that the USofA doesn't run the rest of the world (and shouldn't), and other countries are entitled to make their own rules.
As an American, I'm also asking "Who the hell is Gene Simmons".
So to answer your other question, no, he's not important to Americans, or probably to anyone else.
We (Americans) "put up with it" because there's very little else out there, so its either put up with it or do without. I'm not going to say one or the other is better, just filling in some facts.
Personally, when I ditched dial-up, I also ditched the print magazines. There are times I miss them (as mentioned above, they did make great materials for quick bathroom reading) but I've traded game magazines for other hobby magazines that aren't quite as bad. Yet.
Read a bit at www.cnczone.com
There's many people that have built their own CNC benchtop mills and lathes, usually starting with a ~$1000 manual mill or lathe and building the rest themselves, either from scratch or from a design and various kits.
Perhaps because that way it looks like a "normal" version of windows, and can go further to foster the "IT doesn't do anything special, my neighbor's 5 year old kid can do that" mentality that PHB's seem to have.
I'm not so sure that network solutions is completely innocent in all this. They're in it to make money, and if they can make money by selling records of whois requests, they'll do it. I've had similar experiences checking their whois service to see if a domain is registered, only to come back a couple of days later and find its now registered. First time I chalked it up to bad luck, second domain was too obscure to be bad luck.
I don't think network solutions is doing the snatching, I merely think they're selling the lookup information.
And I never said they weren't. Just that most people I know don't wear digital watches. If they wear one at all, its usually analogue.
A watch/music player combo would most likely also be banned from those rooms as well, since it'd be considered to be portable data storage, much along the lines of, say, a USB drive.