Didn't you ever see "Flatliners"? With Kiefer Sutherland and the cold blanket and such. When he coined "Today is a good day to die" a good decade before Worf?
Any time you call customer service or technical support, ask where they are. If they say "Bangalore," politely ask to speak with someone inside the United States. Do not continue with the conversation until you get that.
1) Federal oversight. Since many people choose to store funds in their account for future use, PayPal is essentially acting as a bank. PayPal should also be restricted from freezing an entire account when only a portion of the funds are disputed.
2) Flat transaction fee. No more of this personal, premiere, or business account BS. Charge everyone the same fee for all transactions, regardless of the amount. This way you won't need different e-mails and bank accounts for every possible scenario. One account with multiple IDs: one for personal transactions, one for eBay sales, etc.
What I'm afraid of is, who controls what gets a broadcast flag or not? And will broadcast flag crippled devices play any media that doesn't have a flag?
If I made a home video and want to share it, will I be able to share it, or will the software needed to put a broadcast flag onto my own media be readily available?
While I'm no speed demon, I do quite well with my QWERTY.
See, I never took a typing class. I learned keyboard layout from years of copying programs from books and magazines into my C64.
Therefore, I was never trained to hold my hands at some unnatural angle. Most of my typing is done with my middle 3 fingers of each hand. The pinky and thumb tend to be reserved for the space, shift, and enter keys.
I don't live by the home row. Resting my hands on my QWERTY, my home keys are in a V shape like like: WEFBNJO[
Put the Dvorak studied home keys in a V shape, but don't futz around with lame ergonomic designs. That's a keyboard for the ages!
Of course, my typing is much slower on this post because now I'm all self conscious of what fingers hit what keys.
Remember, it's a LIGHTsaber, not Lasersaber or lasersword.
I remember reading in one of the Star Wars novels or such that the blade is not a single beam of light, but an energy arc that swoops out and returns back to the handle. It's so tight that it looks like a single beam.
You know one of those Frankstein's lab devices where the electricity bolt flows up two metal spikes? Imagine that to some kind of extreme.
It's real! It's real! I seen it on the photos. It's not blurred out (yet), so there must be nothing to hide, right? For those needing directions, it's a small round lake to the northwest of Las Vegas. Zoom in and you'll see the runways and such. Zoom in more and you'll see the aliens enjoying a lovely day in the sun.
I remember when Metalstorm was in theaters, they had the clear/slightly grey cardboard glasses, similar to what they use for Terminator-3D and MuppetVision.
I'm sure it's probably related to the capabilities of the projector and screen...but if Lucas has always been a perfectionist about THX quality sound in his theaters, shouldn't be just as dedicated to visual quality?
Or will JarJar be forever associated with red & blue patches in my vision?
Gather round kids, this 30yr old is gonna tell a tall tale....
In stone age times, before the Internet, even before remote control was standard gear, just about every TV only went from Channels 2-13.
So to get the channel #s that went higher, you'd plug in the cable box, leave the TV tuned to channel 3, and use the box for your channel switching needs. They either had a button for each channel, or a slider.
We still had to get up to turn the TV on or adjust the volume, but if you had a good cable box, it had a long wire so you could at least change channels from across the room.
Create a black webpage, with black background, and all text, links, and viewed links as black.
In clear, concise, plain English, post said e-mail address with explicit instructions that no commercial interest may send you unsolicited e-mails, nor will the owner of the address ever opt-in to any mailing list.
Make sure you link to this black page from someplace else, so the web bots can find it.
When spam arrives, give them ONE CHANCE to follow the law and their own printed disclosure to remove you from their lists. Save all spam and spam removal requests as evidence.
1. Post e-mail
2. Unsubscribe
3. Sue
4. PROFIT!!!!
1) Using your mail client of choice, create an account using the spammers e-mail address as the "From" and "Reply to" fields (seeing that spammers sometimes use my address as "from", it's only fighting fair).
2) Sending to the same address, attach a large video clip. Larger the better.
3) Send that big ole attachment, and when the spam server auto-replies to it's own e-mail address, see what happens when that giant file bounces around and duplicates inside its own server.
(I don't know much about IP spoofing, so I'm sure that would help as well)
I did it once to a very annoying spammer, and received no more, at least of that spam.
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The first one I ripped, using l3enc, I wanted to be a short track to take less time.
I ripped "What's That Noise?" by S.O.D.
Ahem...
In Soviet Russia, robotic guitar plays YOU!
Thank you.
Shouldn't anarchists, by nature of their philosophy, have no organization or leadership?
Won't that prove just as fatal as a blood clot?
It's simple:
1) Corpse-icle
2) GRAVITAS!!!!
3) Profit!
2) Flat transaction fee. No more of this personal, premiere, or business account BS. Charge everyone the same fee for all transactions, regardless of the amount. This way you won't need different e-mails and bank accounts for every possible scenario. One account with multiple IDs: one for personal transactions, one for eBay sales, etc.
If I made a home video and want to share it, will I be able to share it, or will the software needed to put a broadcast flag onto my own media be readily available?
See, I never took a typing class. I learned keyboard layout from years of copying programs from books and magazines into my C64.
Therefore, I was never trained to hold my hands at some unnatural angle. Most of my typing is done with my middle 3 fingers of each hand. The pinky and thumb tend to be reserved for the space, shift, and enter keys.
I don't live by the home row. Resting my hands on my QWERTY, my home keys are in a V shape like like: WEFBNJO[
Put the Dvorak studied home keys in a V shape, but don't futz around with lame ergonomic designs. That's a keyboard for the ages!
Of course, my typing is much slower on this post because now I'm all self conscious of what fingers hit what keys.
I didn't see much in the way of air filters in those pictures. How long before it's just full of dust?
I remember reading in one of the Star Wars novels or such that the blade is not a single beam of light, but an energy arc that swoops out and returns back to the handle. It's so tight that it looks like a single beam.
You know one of those Frankstein's lab devices where the electricity bolt flows up two metal spikes? Imagine that to some kind of extreme.
It's real! It's real! I seen it on the photos. It's not blurred out (yet), so there must be nothing to hide, right? For those needing directions, it's a small round lake to the northwest of Las Vegas. Zoom in and you'll see the runways and such. Zoom in more and you'll see the aliens enjoying a lovely day in the sun.
I do remember UHF, but I didn't want to get into more detail than needed for my post.
Plus we only had 1-2 UHF stations in the region.
I remember when Metalstorm was in theaters, they had the clear/slightly grey cardboard glasses, similar to what they use for Terminator-3D and MuppetVision.
I'm sure it's probably related to the capabilities of the projector and screen...but if Lucas has always been a perfectionist about THX quality sound in his theaters, shouldn't be just as dedicated to visual quality?
Or will JarJar be forever associated with red & blue patches in my vision?
In stone age times, before the Internet, even before remote control was standard gear, just about every TV only went from Channels 2-13.
So to get the channel #s that went higher, you'd plug in the cable box, leave the TV tuned to channel 3, and use the box for your channel switching needs. They either had a button for each channel, or a slider.
We still had to get up to turn the TV on or adjust the volume, but if you had a good cable box, it had a long wire so you could at least change channels from across the room.
"You took four minutes of my life, and I want them back. Ohhh, I'd only waste them."
- Hans Moleman
Create a black webpage, with black background, and all text, links, and viewed links as black.
In clear, concise, plain English, post said e-mail address with explicit instructions that no commercial interest may send you unsolicited e-mails, nor will the owner of the address ever opt-in to any mailing list.
Make sure you link to this black page from someplace else, so the web bots can find it.
When spam arrives, give them ONE CHANCE to follow the law and their own printed disclosure to remove you from their lists. Save all spam and spam removal requests as evidence.
1. Post e-mail
2. Unsubscribe
3. Sue
4. PROFIT!!!!
2) Sending to the same address, attach a large video clip. Larger the better.
3) Send that big ole attachment, and when the spam server auto-replies to it's own e-mail address, see what happens when that giant file bounces around and duplicates inside its own server.
(I don't know much about IP spoofing, so I'm sure that would help as well)
I did it once to a very annoying spammer, and received no more, at least of that spam.
They need to perform crazy stunts to reach normal levels, while many people are just as content with a stroll around the block.