Non Pirated material will be subject to EVEN LOUDER commercials that conveniently have the volume control disabled during duration.
I've noticed that Viddler prevents me from muting their commercials now. You can turn the volume down to a near whisper but I bet that level will creep higher and higher.
And make it so posters can't use any one of the 50 potential characters to post but rather have it all under one name?
Oh, and treat forum bans with an ingame ban as well.
An "Ignore Account" would be a nice feature too. I mean, sure someone could make a new account if they were really determined but at that point you're probably already looking at legal action whereas creating a new character to get passed the terribly short ignore list is done in 10 seconds.
Oh, well. Let's just put everyone's full name up on the forums instead.
There's still no reason for a RealID forum unless you want people to be nice under the potential threat of someone on the internet tracking them down in real life to enforce niceness.
All they have to do is tie one account to one name (fabricated or, if anyone feels like it, their own) and tie forum bans to bans ingame.
Talking about reversing the polarity fields of quantum subspace tachyon particles or modulating the chronoton flux with the deflector array... that's not sci-fi. It's just bullshitting.
DS9, of course, has that but also does a remarkable job exploring the cultures of other races. The intrigue of lives of Cardassians is particularly well done. Check out episodes with Garak.
It's a hack. Here they have this idea they can't use to its fullest extent because of societal "norms". Rather than putting out a dumb system that's predictable, they're having to put in all these exceptions.
Right at the top of the list they have "are".
Yes, as in "Are we there yet?" and "You are going to hurt yourself."
Here's the entry from TFA:
are (this is a VERY interesting one. if you stick "are" after the following words, the blacklist kicks in: jews, christians, catholics born-again christians, evangelical christians, atheists, muslims, blacks, italians, mexicans, chinese, japanese, germans, arabs, french. the blacklist does NOT kick in when these words are entered before "are": terrorists, scientologists, agnostics, seventh day adventists, jehovah's witnesses, mormons, protestants, evangelists, pentecostalists, columbians, panamanians, iranians, iraqis, koreans, persians, turks.)
I don't even know what to say. It just seems arbitrary and... I don't know. The closest word that comes to mind is unequal. You can argue that it doesn't block searching for any of those terms but just tries to keep google from looking bad. From my PoV, it feels like limited protection for some and light censorship for others. They can tweak the list 'til the end of time but people will still game the system and vulgar shit will slip through.
Don't electronics become more susceptible as they become smaller? How much redundancy would be needed now that you only have a single atom to hold a bit of memory?
I imagine the problem is akin to so called downloadable content for console games which is already on the disc but requires you to pay for and download some magic patch to enable it.
With the knife analogy, it already has the compass! The company already paid for it and only gets a lower profit margin if no one opts to "enable" it. With that in mind, they could charge a trifle more, have that extra bullet pointed feature on the list on the packaging, and come out ahead easily. Sell the knife sans compass for the same (compass enabling knife price point) price and there's even more profit!
The problem is that it doesn't make sense from the common sense point of view.
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Stop using URL shorteners you cunt!
Pfft. If taxes were today's version of yesterday's draft, they would be going up.
8 million tons? You'd only need 6400 Saturn V to get all the components into orbit for construction. Ooof.
Notice he didn't say how long it would take.
You must be thinking about Norton AV.
You should just backup her files, format the drive, and put some variety of Linux on there and say a virus did it.
Salt would be good to keep moisture down.
Ah! I see you've played "Trolly Spoony" before.
I've noticed that Viddler prevents me from muting their commercials now. You can turn the volume down to a near whisper but I bet that level will creep higher and higher.
It was a button applicator!
Or something to that extent.
Why do I remember that?
So you switched to Minecraft?
Maybe they should like... moderate it?
And make it so posters can't use any one of the 50 potential characters to post but rather have it all under one name?
Oh, and treat forum bans with an ingame ban as well.
An "Ignore Account" would be a nice feature too. I mean, sure someone could make a new account if they were really determined but at that point you're probably already looking at legal action whereas creating a new character to get passed the terribly short ignore list is done in 10 seconds.
Oh, well. Let's just put everyone's full name up on the forums instead.
There's still no reason for a RealID forum unless you want people to be nice under the potential threat of someone on the internet tracking them down in real life to enforce niceness.
All they have to do is tie one account to one name (fabricated or, if anyone feels like it, their own) and tie forum bans to bans ingame.
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Sci-fi in Star Trek? Puh-leeeeeeze~
Talking about reversing the polarity fields of quantum subspace tachyon particles or modulating the chronoton flux with the deflector array... that's not sci-fi. It's just bullshitting.
DS9, of course, has that but also does a remarkable job exploring the cultures of other races. The intrigue of lives of Cardassians is particularly well done. Check out episodes with Garak.
It's a hack. Here they have this idea they can't use to its fullest extent because of societal "norms". Rather than putting out a dumb system that's predictable, they're having to put in all these exceptions.
Right at the top of the list they have "are".
Yes, as in "Are we there yet?" and "You are going to hurt yourself."
Here's the entry from TFA:
I don't even know what to say. It just seems arbitrary and... I don't know. The closest word that comes to mind is unequal. You can argue that it doesn't block searching for any of those terms but just tries to keep google from looking bad. From my PoV, it feels like limited protection for some and light censorship for others. They can tweak the list 'til the end of time but people will still game the system and vulgar shit will slip through.
Funny but the possible circuitry is pretty amazing. This guy made a binary clock in mine craft: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REdmbx22VrU
Don't electronics become more susceptible as they become smaller? How much redundancy would be needed now that you only have a single atom to hold a bit of memory?
Red herrings. Don't make them on your computer. Spreading them via automated means would be another topic though.
What could possibly go wrong?
On the contrary, a lot of us are laughing.
I could only think of places for thirteen and the uncomfortableness (quite the understatement) would be staggering. I am intrigued yet frightened.
I imagine the problem is akin to so called downloadable content for console games which is already on the disc but requires you to pay for and download some magic patch to enable it.
With the knife analogy, it already has the compass! The company already paid for it and only gets a lower profit margin if no one opts to "enable" it. With that in mind, they could charge a trifle more, have that extra bullet pointed feature on the list on the packaging, and come out ahead easily. Sell the knife sans compass for the same (compass enabling knife price point) price and there's even more profit!
The problem is that it doesn't make sense from the common sense point of view.
True but the services of said infrastructure will become a resource in the future.
Maybe I should RTFA and stay on topic but it could be a good plan to put that oil revenue to use on something tangible before it runs out.
Well, I'm sold. Anything to fuck with companies that auto-renew and make it outrageously difficult to cancel is a plus in my book.