Can vouch for this, I have an e-mail "spammexxx@gmail.com" and I get almost no spam e-mail on it, even though that's the one I use for signing up with websites ect. My personal one gets 50 spam or so a week.
Regardless, he's (darkitecture) right. I've said it before on slashdot.. it was one of my few postings but i'll say it again.
I'm still quite young (dare I say.. 17?) and am still growing up around all this violent media. As a kid, barely able to walk, I sat on my dads lap watching him play Wolfenstein and Doom 95, and since then i've been hooked with the blood and gore. We get all the latest shooter games.. BF2, FEAR, SWAT, GTA, you name it. We even play them together via LAN or online. Infact, he doesn't even monitor my usage anymore.. I watch whatever movies I want, play whatever I want, ect. The reason he doesn't monitor me anymore though is because at an early age, he did his job as a parent and taught me that games are just that.. games; and movies aren't real either.
You see, it doesn't matter how much the media changes.. how much more violent it gets. It's still the parents responsibility to teach their kids about the media they're consuming and why it shouldn't be acted out. When parents start doing their job, this issue completely flies out the window.
Disregarding whether the US's power grid is 'clean' or not, this gets the general public in the mindset. It's alot harder to persuade 200 million people to use enegy effecient cars then it is to get the hundreds (I don't know, pulled that out of my ass. Point still stands) of power companys to start using betters means of producing energy.
Granted, it would be nice if those power companys produced energy cleanly before the general public even thought of buying energy efficient cars.. but at this stage in the game, i'll take a victory wherever and however I can.
Oh contraire; everything IS in place.
And Google doesn't already have a HUGE customer base? I'm willing to bet its damn bigger than ebays. Granted, they arent paying customers, but the consumers are there and waiting.
As far as advertisement stunts, that's laughable to. How many articles do we see posted about Google every day? I see FAR more articles about Google then I see about ebay and paypal combined, in a year.
In the first link you posted.. look at the first two pictures in the last row, and their corresponding address.
Ah well.. I thought it was rather ironic/funny.
Its quite simple to get addicted. I almost got trapped in an addiction with Anarchy Online (MMORPG) back in Februaryish. I would easily log 10 hours on the weekends and 4-6 hours on school days. Luckily I caught myself after a about a week and a half to two weeks and stopped playing all together.
Its a crappy situation and you dont even realise that you're getting into it. You start playing, set goals, and before you know if you you're eating every meal infront of the computer (I do that now sometimes anyway.. hmm../. addiction?:) just to get whatever level super-laser-expresso-cannon.
Yea, and end their power trip. Granted, they have valid reason for going after people for what they're doing (Or in these cases apparently not doing), I believe there has to be a better way to try and stop all the file sharing other then charging someone a couple thousand and giving them jail time.
Pretty much. I for one am getting tired of all the movies that hav been coming out, most are watered down and boring. Every now and then a good one will come out but for the most part nothing in theaters interests me or anyone I know.
However, a couple of the movies coming out this fall look promising, and im especially looking forward to The Da Vinci Code coming out nexr summer.
Am I the only one that doesnt see anything to special? Sure, they have about 300 sensors to record misc data, and some spiffy software, but IMO that doesnt even come close to whats in a modern day data center.
The buildings to the left and right of the whitehouse seem to have the roofs drawn over, for whatever reason to hide the top. Wonder why?
Just something interesting.. not sure if anyone else noticed.
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Can vouch for this, I have an e-mail "spammexxx@gmail.com" and I get almost no spam e-mail on it, even though that's the one I use for signing up with websites ect. My personal one gets 50 spam or so a week.
Regardless, he's (darkitecture) right. I've said it before on slashdot.. it was one of my few postings but i'll say it again. I'm still quite young (dare I say.. 17?) and am still growing up around all this violent media. As a kid, barely able to walk, I sat on my dads lap watching him play Wolfenstein and Doom 95, and since then i've been hooked with the blood and gore. We get all the latest shooter games.. BF2, FEAR, SWAT, GTA, you name it. We even play them together via LAN or online. Infact, he doesn't even monitor my usage anymore.. I watch whatever movies I want, play whatever I want, ect. The reason he doesn't monitor me anymore though is because at an early age, he did his job as a parent and taught me that games are just that.. games; and movies aren't real either. You see, it doesn't matter how much the media changes.. how much more violent it gets. It's still the parents responsibility to teach their kids about the media they're consuming and why it shouldn't be acted out. When parents start doing their job, this issue completely flies out the window.
Disregarding whether the US's power grid is 'clean' or not, this gets the general public in the mindset. It's alot harder to persuade 200 million people to use enegy effecient cars then it is to get the hundreds (I don't know, pulled that out of my ass. Point still stands) of power companys to start using betters means of producing energy. Granted, it would be nice if those power companys produced energy cleanly before the general public even thought of buying energy efficient cars.. but at this stage in the game, i'll take a victory wherever and however I can.
Interesting how over the years Yahoo's home page has become more cluttered, while Google's and Altavista's have become less.
Will they have friggen laser beams attached to their heads?
Oh contraire; everything IS in place. And Google doesn't already have a HUGE customer base? I'm willing to bet its damn bigger than ebays. Granted, they arent paying customers, but the consumers are there and waiting. As far as advertisement stunts, that's laughable to. How many articles do we see posted about Google every day? I see FAR more articles about Google then I see about ebay and paypal combined, in a year.
In the first link you posted.. look at the first two pictures in the last row, and their corresponding address. Ah well.. I thought it was rather ironic/funny.
Its quite simple to get addicted. I almost got trapped in an addiction with Anarchy Online (MMORPG) back in Februaryish. I would easily log 10 hours on the weekends and 4-6 hours on school days. Luckily I caught myself after a about a week and a half to two weeks and stopped playing all together.
/. addiction? :) just to get whatever level super-laser-expresso-cannon.
Its a crappy situation and you dont even realise that you're getting into it. You start playing, set goals, and before you know if you you're eating every meal infront of the computer (I do that now sometimes anyway.. hmm..
Yea, and end their power trip. Granted, they have valid reason for going after people for what they're doing (Or in these cases apparently not doing), I believe there has to be a better way to try and stop all the file sharing other then charging someone a couple thousand and giving them jail time.
I can attest firsthand that some people actually talk like that. Most worse.
Pretty much. I for one am getting tired of all the movies that hav been coming out, most are watered down and boring. Every now and then a good one will come out but for the most part nothing in theaters interests me or anyone I know. However, a couple of the movies coming out this fall look promising, and im especially looking forward to The Da Vinci Code coming out nexr summer.
Am I the only one that doesnt see anything to special? Sure, they have about 300 sensors to record misc data, and some spiffy software, but IMO that doesnt even come close to whats in a modern day data center.
The buildings to the left and right of the whitehouse seem to have the roofs drawn over, for whatever reason to hide the top. Wonder why? Just something interesting.. not sure if anyone else noticed.