Lunar 2: Eternal Blue, released in 2000 for the Playstation, was one of Working Designs' masterpiece games.
Cool, I didn't know it was so rare - I've got a "Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete" box sitting on my shelf which I bought new (a few years ago), and enjoyed thoroughly. Maybe I should take it out & play it again (if my PSOne is still working...)
I screwed up a few discs discovering this the hard way (that the home-resurfacing kits are jokes), but I did discover that using Rain-X (the stuff that makes water bead up on your car windshield) will often make damaged discs readable, as long as the scratches aren't too deep or wide. (I saved quite a few of my own abused master CDs this way, at least long enough to make a backup copy of them.)
I always thought of coffee as an "accelerator" - it causes you to use whatever mental & physical energy reserves faster, thereby making you feel more alert.
If you don't HAVE any mental energy reserves left, however, it will pretty much finish off any chance you had of thinking clearly, and leave you wired & strung out.
Combine that with insulin bounces when drinking caffeinated soda, with the right choices of drinks, you can pretty much destroy your mind in a few days:-)
I would hazard a guess that the way that the current U.S. military & reserves are being treated by the U.S. administration (plunging them into an unnecessary war using "evidence" which has evaporated, doing so little post-"victory" planning that we end up mired in a long-term guerilla war, changing the lengths of their tours of duty at the last moments, etc), military recruiters are going to be having real problems for a few decades convincing anyone with common sense to join their ranks, much less stopping its current members from leaving ASAP.
That's probably why they keep throwing the idea of reinstituting the draft around in Congress - but I personally think that passing a bill like that would be the Kiss-of-Death to any politician who voted for it.
I haven't seen any comments on dnsmasq - it seems to be a small, easy-to-configure caching nameserver suitable for use on a home network (or maybe a small business). It also has some hooks for handling DHCP-assigned IP addresses.
then the best (fiscal) decision is to borrow the money for the car and take the best paying job.
Whether or not this is the "best" decision actually depends on your risk tolerance - your scenario doesn't include the possibility that you might lose the job, and end up being liable for the loan without any way to pay for it. Borrowing money always involves increasing your personal financial risk.
Ah. In short, pirates and thieves shouldn't be limited by laws, but by business models. Or to put it differently you have no evidence beyond slashdot hivemind bleatings.
Nice way to ignore the "sell-a-good-or-service-in-exchange-for-compensati on" part of my statement. It must be convenient to be able to ignore any part of an discussion which doesn't suit your argument.
Hint: pirates & thieves aren't interested in compensating people for the real, physical goods that they take.
That people willingly line up on a daily basis to purchase the 'products' is prima facie evidence that their business model works just fine.
No, that's just "evidence" that they don't want to be arrested or fined for doing what they would normally do naturally (make themselves a copy). Like I said, the only reason the record companies can make a lot of money like that is because they've got special laws forcing people to pay for a bad business model. If those laws didn't exist, they'd have to find some other (more honest) way to make their living.
What you don't like is that the law protects them from your desires to own their products for free, and to do with them whatever you will, mostly based on a childish notion of 'ownership' and an utter disregard of the rights of others.
Yeah, that pesky "childish" notion of ownership - being able to only own real things instead of imaginary things. Odd how such a simple definition clarifies a lot of philosophical & practical issues, like making clear that YOU (and people who think like you) have an "utter disregard" for people's PHYSICAL property rights, and believe that those basic, natural rights should be trumped by a set of "rights" whose existence is only based in and enforced by law.
First off, where is the evidence that their business model is in need of improvement?
Because they need special laws, over and above the "sell-a-good-or-service-in-exchange-for compensation" concept, to make their business model viable.
In a straightforward supply & demand situation, if you can't convince people to compensate you fairly for providing a good or service, then your business model is bad & you need to find a new one. If you're greedy, then you get a law passed to fine people or throw them into jail if they don't pay you money every time they use your product, even though you put forth the effort to create it only once.
Pickup trucks and utility vehicles were exempted from these requirements.
Environmentalists who rave and fume about SUVs created the problem.
The environmentalists didn't want the pickup trucks & utility vehicles exempted from the requirements - and by your logic, if they weren't, then SUVs wouldn't have become popular. Therefore, the people who created the problem were the people who pushed through the exemptions, not the "environmentalists".
And I put on my trusty night-vision, and then, wham - right beside the hot chick there was some dork with a video cam.
Actually, I'd probably be trying to figure out how I can attach a camcorder to the nightvision, so I can try and get some footage of couples making out in the dark.
If Saddam Hussein didn't have WMDs, all he had to do was cooperate with the inspecters, verify he didn't have them, and there would have been no war.
I doubt it. He could've had the inspectors crawling up his colon looking for WMDs, but the current administration would've still accused him of hiding them (how could he "prove" that he wasn't?). Bush & Co. were going to attack Iraq no matter what, even if they had to invent the evidence to do so.
We are fighting an enemy who will not abide by GC, therefore we are not honor bound to the GC either.
If we don't set and follow higher standards for ourself than that of our enemies, then we can not honestly claim we are any more "moral" than our enemies. You don't get to behave like them and say you're better than they are.
Well, they'll get paid like any other hardworking individual: for providing a good or service. (In the case of actors & actresses, I would assume that they would give some kind of performance.)
I really don't understand the greed of people who think they should be paid over and over when they don't do any real work after the initial performance.
With what little judo I've had the chance to experience, I've got to say that it was one of the most painful and aggressive "passive" ways that I've ever seen...
I thought Jujitsu was Bruce Li (Lee?)'s adaptation of Chinese Martial arts?
Full City Roast, where the beans are very dark brown, not black, and only have a small amount of oil on them, is the best.
That's another thing that annoyed me about Starbucks labeling; I couldn't find the traditional roasting-level labels like full-city or light-city. They end up using labels like "smooth" or "sumatra", and there's no translation table around to tell me how that compares with the traditional names for coffee-bean preparation.
Then agian Science can't explain how life forms(today), Science can't explain out of the billions of permutations that evolution requires why is there only one Intelligent species, Why hasn't another one exsisted? The probalities would say it should of happened.
Heh - that doesn't take science, it takes common sense. The first thing any newly-intelligent race is going to do, is eat the competition.:-)
I bleieve that under this act you can insist they remove all computer records about you.
Does that mean they remove your number from a do-not-call list (so that they can call you again)? A lot of U.S. telemarketers don't mind hearing "take me off your calling list", since that means they don't know they're not supposed to call you again - versus the "put me on your do-not-call list", which legally requires them to stop calling you (although apparently doesn't stop them from selling your number to someone else who will call you).
So if I choose to utilize the full amount of bandwidth comcast SELLS me I should use it how I see fit (with the exception of illegal activities).
If you use the full amount of bandwidth Comcast "sells" you, you will eventually get booted, whether or not you are using it for illegal activities. It is not profitable for Comcast to service people who use all of the available bandwidth.
The only time these features are gonna be used is if someone calls in and is having issues.
Or if comcast gets a court order by law enforcement...or if a comcast employee wants to snoop around his girlfriend's connection (or maybe wants to screw over someone who flipped them the bird in a parking lot)...
Your mistake is assuming that the ports are being scanned sequentially. nmap scans all 65000 (or so) ports concurrently (it doesn't have to wait for a port to respond before initiating the connection to the next one), and the 30 second delay mentioned in the message you responded to is probably long enough for nmap to register all the ports that are going to respond.
Bitbucketing port replies won't do diddlysquat (and will actually probably make it easier for the attacker, since the attacker will get back replies for only those ports which are open & active.)
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Jeez, the number is up to trillions of dollars now? Try this link to clear things up.
snopes.com is _so_ useful for clearing up many of the stupid memes floating around the net.
Cool, I didn't know it was so rare - I've got a "Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete" box sitting on my shelf which I bought new (a few years ago), and enjoyed thoroughly. Maybe I should take it out & play it again (if my PSOne is still working...)
I screwed up a few discs discovering this the hard way (that the home-resurfacing kits are jokes), but I did discover that using Rain-X (the stuff that makes water bead up on your car windshield) will often make damaged discs readable, as long as the scratches aren't too deep or wide. (I saved quite a few of my own abused master CDs this way, at least long enough to make a backup copy of them.)
I always thought of coffee as an "accelerator" - it causes you to use whatever mental & physical energy reserves faster, thereby making you feel more alert.
:-)
If you don't HAVE any mental energy reserves left, however, it will pretty much finish off any chance you had of thinking clearly, and leave you wired & strung out.
Combine that with insulin bounces when drinking caffeinated soda, with the right choices of drinks, you can pretty much destroy your mind in a few days
I'm assuming Linus _won't_ be checking these out, otherwise his wife will seriously kick his butt all over the Columbia George.
You also forgot to mention the hiking in the Gorge & the National Forests...
I would hazard a guess that the way that the current U.S. military & reserves are being treated by the U.S. administration (plunging them into an unnecessary war using "evidence" which has evaporated, doing so little post-"victory" planning that we end up mired in a long-term guerilla war, changing the lengths of their tours of duty at the last moments, etc), military recruiters are going to be having real problems for a few decades convincing anyone with common sense to join their ranks, much less stopping its current members from leaving ASAP.
That's probably why they keep throwing the idea of reinstituting the draft around in Congress - but I personally think that passing a bill like that would be the Kiss-of-Death to any politician who voted for it.
You know you've got a good marketing campaign when everyone is writing the contents of the ads for you.
I haven't seen any comments on dnsmasq - it seems to be a small, easy-to-configure caching nameserver suitable for use on a home network (or maybe a small business). It also has some hooks for handling DHCP-assigned IP addresses.
Has anyone had any bad experiences using it?
Whether or not this is the "best" decision actually depends on your risk tolerance - your scenario doesn't include the possibility that you might lose the job, and end up being liable for the loan without any way to pay for it. Borrowing money always involves increasing your personal financial risk.
Nice way to ignore the "sell-a-good-or-service-in-exchange-for-compensati on" part of my statement. It must be convenient to be able to ignore any part of an discussion which doesn't suit your argument.
Hint: pirates & thieves aren't interested in compensating people for the real, physical goods that they take.
No, that's just "evidence" that they don't want to be arrested or fined for doing what they would normally do naturally (make themselves a copy). Like I said, the only reason the record companies can make a lot of money like that is because they've got special laws forcing people to pay for a bad business model. If those laws didn't exist, they'd have to find some other (more honest) way to make their living.
Yeah, that pesky "childish" notion of ownership - being able to only own real things instead of imaginary things. Odd how such a simple definition clarifies a lot of philosophical & practical issues, like making clear that YOU (and people who think like you) have an "utter disregard" for people's PHYSICAL property rights, and believe that those basic, natural rights should be trumped by a set of "rights" whose existence is only based in and enforced by law.
Because they need special laws, over and above the "sell-a-good-or-service-in-exchange-for compensation" concept, to make their business model viable.
In a straightforward supply & demand situation, if you can't convince people to compensate you fairly for providing a good or service, then your business model is bad & you need to find a new one. If you're greedy, then you get a law passed to fine people or throw them into jail if they don't pay you money every time they use your product, even though you put forth the effort to create it only once.
The environmentalists didn't want the pickup trucks & utility vehicles exempted from the requirements - and by your logic, if they weren't, then SUVs wouldn't have become popular. Therefore, the people who created the problem were the people who pushed through the exemptions, not the "environmentalists".
Actually, I'd probably be trying to figure out how I can attach a camcorder to the nightvision, so I can try and get some footage of couples making out in the dark.
I doubt it. He could've had the inspectors crawling up his colon looking for WMDs, but the current administration would've still accused him of hiding them (how could he "prove" that he wasn't?). Bush & Co. were going to attack Iraq no matter what, even if they had to invent the evidence to do so.
If we don't set and follow higher standards for ourself than that of our enemies, then we can not honestly claim we are any more "moral" than our enemies. You don't get to behave like them and say you're better than they are.
Well, they'll get paid like any other hardworking individual: for providing a good or service. (In the case of actors & actresses, I would assume that they would give some kind of performance.)
I really don't understand the greed of people who think they should be paid over and over when they don't do any real work after the initial performance.
With what little judo I've had the chance to experience, I've got to say that it was one of the most painful and aggressive "passive" ways that I've ever seen...
I thought Jujitsu was Bruce Li (Lee?)'s adaptation of Chinese Martial arts?
That's another thing that annoyed me about Starbucks labeling; I couldn't find the traditional roasting-level labels like full-city or light-city. They end up using labels like "smooth" or "sumatra", and there's no translation table around to tell me how that compares with the traditional names for coffee-bean preparation.
Heh - that doesn't take science, it takes common sense. The first thing any newly-intelligent race is going to do, is eat the competition. :-)
They're not trying to improve traffic safety. They're trying to maximize their traffic-ticket revenue.
I don't see much logic & reason occurring here - just your pigheaded refusal to accept that any other viewpoint than your own has any merit.
Incorrect. Human life does not begin until the life is recognizable as a human. By definition. But not your definition.
Does that mean they remove your number from a do-not-call list (so that they can call you again)? A lot of U.S. telemarketers don't mind hearing "take me off your calling list", since that means they don't know they're not supposed to call you again - versus the "put me on your do-not-call list", which legally requires them to stop calling you (although apparently doesn't stop them from selling your number to someone else who will call you).
If you use the full amount of bandwidth Comcast "sells" you, you will eventually get booted, whether or not you are using it for illegal activities. It is not profitable for Comcast to service people who use all of the available bandwidth.
Or if comcast gets a court order by law enforcement...or if a comcast employee wants to snoop around his girlfriend's connection (or maybe wants to screw over someone who flipped them the bird in a parking lot)...
Your mistake is assuming that the ports are being scanned sequentially. nmap scans all 65000 (or so) ports concurrently (it doesn't have to wait for a port to respond before initiating the connection to the next one), and the 30 second delay mentioned in the message you responded to is probably long enough for nmap to register all the ports that are going to respond.
Bitbucketing port replies won't do diddlysquat (and will actually probably make it easier for the attacker, since the attacker will get back replies for only those ports which are open & active.)