...like having a field of corn in the middle of nowhere and a huge hive of bees to pollinate it, regardless of the fact that corn is wind pollinated and doesn't even need the damned bees. And that's if they managed to find a strain of corn that hadn't been hybridized to the point that it was rendered sterile, like all the other corn on the planet.
I'm fine with a little scientific license, but why would the bad guys make their lives more complicated? Just for the sake of having a few million bees with frickin' laser beams on their foreheads?
When they have downloaded all necessary patches, they are automatically removed from the walled garden (using apache logs and RADIUS trace IPs to link the download with their account) and allowed back on the network.
So as long as I get my prescription filled, you'll let me out of quarantine? Great! I don't actually have to take my antibiotics, as long as they're nearby.
I remember when I was a kid, there was an issue of Mad Magazine with one of those floppy, perforated tear-out records in it. It had only one playable side, but that side had 4 grooves. The song was the same up to a point, but you got a different ending depending on where the needle happened to fall.
I played it over and over and actually got to the point where I could pick pretty well which ending I wanted with careful armature placement, but then, I had FAR too much time on my hands.
I've actually used Kylix 2.0 Open Edition to cross-compile a shareware game I've been working on in Delphi 6.
You realize, of course, that by using the Kylix Open Edition, you're under obligation to GPL your "shareware" game, right? If you want to keep your code to yourself, without violating the Open Edition license, you have to purchase the Kylix Standard Edition.
For years, theaters (the live kind, not the movie kind) have been running a system whereby people with pagers can leave them with a clerk, who takes note of the seat number and unobtrusively alerts them if there is a page. The people with the pagers used to be doctors for the most part, and they often had the good sense and manners to book a seat on an aisle in case they had to get up unexpectedly. I'm sure they're doing the same thing with cell phones now. I'm also sure they could do the same thing in movie theaters if they cared (and checked on where you were sitting).
I was in a Broadway theater a few months ago when a woman in front of me answered her cell phone and started gabbing away in full voice right in the middle of the show. Someone shushed her, to which she replied (loudly and angrily), "This is BUSINESS!" Fine, lady. Take your business outside.
C'mon, people, how hard can it be?
Put it on vibrate!
Sit on the aisle!
If you need to make or take a call, leave the theater!
Same goes for restaurants, to an extent. Basically, if you can talk on your cell as you would talk to a companion at your table, fine. If not, find some privacy.
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This isn't necessarily government suckage, but Andorra is apparently used as a haven for cigarette smugglers. They have (last time I heard) no import tax on cigarettes, so smugglers have their ciggies shipped to Andorra, where they pick them up and smuggle them into France, Spain, Belgium, and beyond.
If you do the math, it's pretty clear that if all the cigarettes legally shipped to Andorra (1,520,000,000 cigs in 1997) were legally consumed in Andorra (population 60,000), every man, woman, and child in the country would have to smoke 3.5 packs a day for a year.
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But you did place the call yourself. Just like the unsolicited email told you to.
...like having a field of corn in the middle of nowhere and a huge hive of bees to pollinate it, regardless of the fact that corn is wind pollinated and doesn't even need the damned bees. And that's if they managed to find a strain of corn that hadn't been hybridized to the point that it was rendered sterile, like all the other corn on the planet.
I'm fine with a little scientific license, but why would the bad guys make their lives more complicated? Just for the sake of having a few million bees with frickin' laser beams on their foreheads?
When they have downloaded all necessary patches, they are automatically removed from the walled garden (using apache logs and RADIUS trace IPs to link the download with their account) and allowed back on the network.
So as long as I get my prescription filled, you'll let me out of quarantine? Great! I don't actually have to take my antibiotics, as long as they're nearby.
I remember when I was a kid, there was an issue of Mad Magazine with one of those floppy, perforated tear-out records in it. It had only one playable side, but that side had 4 grooves. The song was the same up to a point, but you got a different ending depending on where the needle happened to fall.
I played it over and over and actually got to the point where I could pick pretty well which ending I wanted with careful armature placement, but then, I had FAR too much time on my hands.
Check your ISO country codes. .il is Israel. .it would have been Italy.
Replying to myself -- I didn't notice that this issue was already addressed 'cause I was cruising at +2. Sorry for the redundancy.
I've actually used Kylix 2.0 Open Edition to cross-compile a shareware game I've been working on in Delphi 6.
You realize, of course, that by using the Kylix Open Edition, you're under obligation to GPL your "shareware" game, right? If you want to keep your code to yourself, without violating the Open Edition license, you have to purchase the Kylix Standard Edition.
I was in a Broadway theater a few months ago when a woman in front of me answered her cell phone and started gabbing away in full voice right in the middle of the show. Someone shushed her, to which she replied (loudly and angrily), "This is BUSINESS!" Fine, lady. Take your business outside.
C'mon, people, how hard can it be?
- Put it on vibrate!
- Sit on the aisle!
- If you need to make or take a call, leave the theater!
Same goes for restaurants, to an extent. Basically, if you can talk on your cell as you would talk to a companion at your table, fine. If not, find some privacy.This isn't necessarily government suckage, but Andorra is apparently used as a haven for cigarette smugglers. They have (last time I heard) no import tax on cigarettes, so smugglers have their ciggies shipped to Andorra, where they pick them up and smuggle them into France, Spain, Belgium, and beyond.
If you do the math, it's pretty clear that if all the cigarettes legally shipped to Andorra (1,520,000,000 cigs in 1997) were legally consumed in Andorra (population 60,000), every man, woman, and child in the country would have to smoke 3.5 packs a day for a year.
Michael