Oh, you mean a Fresh Prince of Persia. Gotcha.
Now, this is a story all about how
My life got flipped-turned upside down
And I liked to take a minute
Just sit right there
I'll tell you how I became the prince of a place called Persia
In Western Arabia born and raised
On a sand dune was where I spent most of my days
Chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool
And all racin some camels outside of the school
When a couple of Greeks
Who were up to no good
Startin making trouble in my neighborhood
I got in one little fight and my mom got scared
She said 'You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Susa'
How about custom appendages? If the brain can be trained to independently control a new arm, why couldn't it learn to control a genuine Doctor Octopus suit?
Speaking from experience, it is because the grant money is better. If you say you need money to research brain/machine interfaces for prothetic limbs to help disabled people, you are more likely to get it than when you say you need the research to give yourself/your_cyborg_army superhuman appendages to be used for world domination.
What you're doing here, whether you're conscious of it or not, is redirecting the issue from the practical fact of housing into the general theory of needs versus rights. There's nothing wrong with that debate, but if you're going to pursue that line then why not bring it back to the topic at hand: people's need for housing. All you're doing is declaring that you disagree that a need is a right. You're entitled to disagree on this point and that's your opinion. You're entitled to an opinion. So am I. I disagree with you.
Because I believe I have made the case that housing is, in fact, a requirement for human life then I would say that it is indeed both a need and a right and that the two are not mutually exclusive. I say it is a right because without it a person cannot live and people do have a right to live in my opinion. You may, no doubt, disagree and you're welcome to that, but stay on the point.
You seem to dismiss the arguement discussion of what a right is as irrelevent to the discussion, but it really is the basis of any disagreement. You argue that housing is a requirement for life and life is a right. If those are true, then it must follow that housing is a right. It is imperitatve that what a right is is defined.
If a right is something you are entitled to by basis of existing, your arguement holds up. If it is not, your arguement fails.
Anyway, since nobody is gonna argue against shelter being a requirement for life, the arguement MUST revolve around what a "right" is which in a round about way is what the "need != right" comment is doing.
Personally, I think it's bunk. I don't think anything is entitled to anything on the basis of existing, and you are the one getting distracted with people needing shelter, so nanny nanny boo boo thbt!!!1111one
Speaking out of experiance, while setting up MythTV is fairly easy, setting up MythTV an old crappy(read not great *nix support) PC with an old ATI card that may or may not have working TV Out is not nearly as easy. Needless to say plug in and go has benifites seen even amongst/.'ers.
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Is it really necessary to be that tasteless?! Some of us prefer not to surf the internets and be accosted by words that really have no place outside of a brothel on the docks!
Fat people also die sooner because of all those health related activities. What do you think damages the environment more carrying around a few extra pounds in a car or driving a car around for an extra 20 years?
I bet they forgot to study earlier morbidity and its effects when they went about blaming global warming on fat people. And honestly WTF!?
I think someone should mod you "didn't even RTFS". The question is not whether she did something wrong, and the "scary" precedent is not that she got charged for something. The worrying part is that she is being indicted under a really broad interpratation of cyber-crime laws. From TFA, the precedent would basically make violating a website's TOS criminal.
The whole thing is about trumping up charges and setting a bad precedent because while everyone believes what she did was wrong they can't find anything illegal with what she did but they want to lock her away anyway.
I'm just amazed that anyone can say that and not realize how Big Brother-ish they sound.
Actually, I am more amazed at the number of people who have not read 1984 or understand what something being Big Brotherish implies.
But when it all comes down it doesn't matter since Freedom is Slavery anyway.
Game companies need to stop optimising games for the bleeding edge nut jobs. Valve get that, iD don't judging by DooM3 and Quake4.
It was my understanding that id mostly does engine sales, and Doom 3 was in a large part a tech demo. The punishing requirements were so companies would see this great engine and use it for the game they would releace in 2 yrs. By that time the sys req's would be upper middle of the road.
I think you've hit the nail on the head. RTFA and at the end you'll see how he compares himself to John the Baptist. The man needs help before HE hurts someone.
Well I personally like the ending where his head ends up on a silver platter more myself...
because so many of the generation before Pong and the like are in retirement (hint: too much free time -> more stuff to complain about).
Or even better they're in politics!!! I mean, shoot, the minimum age for President is like ~35 or something; and have you seen Congress? Some of them look like they've been around since 1776!
It's THEFT OF LABOR to steal another person's creation
WTF is "Theft of Labor"?! You can steal a product which would be say a book, or you can not pay an employee which would be "stealing" a service. Labor has no intrisic value; the result of labor has value. If I take nine years to write a book and get paid the same as someone who wrote a book in nine months, did they steal eight years and three months worth of labor? As for SK, if anything they stole his permission to copy the book which is a product due to the granting of a copyright. They didn't steal his labor.
And if Rowling has an Official one coming out soon an unofficial one doesn't suddenly make it worthless. The intrinsic value of its officialness just may not be enough to make people who buy the unoffical one to go back and buy another.
Apple's iPhone GUI has no comptetitors at the moment.
And they probably won't because they like to patent doing basic things "with a touchscreen". The only way to get around those will be with really clunky interfaces which won't compare to the iphone which will reinforce the apple mythos...
Stay away from libcreditcard!
I don't know who is responsible, but that lib is responsable for untold numbers of overruns, memory leaks, and runaway processes.
What I really wish though is that they'd port iTunes to Linux. It can't be that hard, and they'd open up their market to a whole 'nother segment. ...and spend all that time and money capturing the "people who like DRM but use linux" segment.
Actually, unless you are Gerald Hopkins from Hoboken, NJ, I think I need to update the database of people who fall into that segment. Currently there are 3 people including Gerald.
per a previous comment the patent was filed last year-ish which means the app wouldn't count as prior art if it didn't exist as such before the filing date
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No! The US is run by Psychiatrists! Haven't you been listening to Tom Cruise?!
Nerd $
Prostitute $$
Lawyer $$$
Politician $$$$$
Now looking purely at the "ability to provide for childern" motive, why on earth would a woman not want to breed with a lawyer?
That said, I still would not suggest using your home as an alternate shuttle launch site.
Now, this is a story all about how
My life got flipped-turned upside down
And I liked to take a minute
Just sit right there
I'll tell you how I became the prince of a place called Persia
In Western Arabia born and raised
On a sand dune was where I spent most of my days
Chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool
And all racin some camels outside of the school
When a couple of Greeks
Who were up to no good
Startin making trouble in my neighborhood
I got in one little fight and my mom got scared
She said 'You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Susa'
Ok I'll stop.
Aren't Fridays great...
Speaking from experience, it is because the grant money is better. If you say you need money to research brain/machine interfaces for prothetic limbs to help disabled people, you are more likely to get it than when you say you need the research to give yourself/your_cyborg_army superhuman appendages to be used for world domination.
The centre of Wikipedia is: 2007
And if you neglect lists and dates it is the United Kingdom.
But don't tell the English.
Because I believe I have made the case that housing is, in fact, a requirement for human life then I would say that it is indeed both a need and a right and that the two are not mutually exclusive. I say it is a right because without it a person cannot live and people do have a right to live in my opinion. You may, no doubt, disagree and you're welcome to that, but stay on the point.
You seem to dismiss the arguement discussion of what a right is as irrelevent to the discussion, but it really is the basis of any disagreement. You argue that housing is a requirement for life and life is a right. If those are true, then it must follow that housing is a right. It is imperitatve that what a right is is defined.
If a right is something you are entitled to by basis of existing, your arguement holds up. If it is not, your arguement fails.
Anyway, since nobody is gonna argue against shelter being a requirement for life, the arguement MUST revolve around what a "right" is which in a round about way is what the "need != right" comment is doing.
Personally, I think it's bunk. I don't think anything is entitled to anything on the basis of existing, and you are the one getting distracted with people needing shelter, so nanny nanny boo boo thbt!!!1111one
Stupid /. not showing who is replying to what right... This was in response to paeanblack's comment...
Not to troll too much, but incidentally there is a reason Obama does not want Clinton as VP...
Speaking out of experiance, while setting up MythTV is fairly easy, setting up MythTV an old crappy(read not great *nix support) PC with an old ATI card that may or may not have working TV Out is not nearly as easy. Needless to say plug in and go has benifites seen even amongst /.'ers.
Is it really necessary to be that tasteless?! Some of us prefer not to surf the internets and be accosted by words that really have no place outside of a brothel on the docks!
Divorce is messy and you lose half your stuff. Further more some take the "til death" vows seriously. This leaves open the superior option, Murder.
Fat people also die sooner because of all those health related activities. What do you think damages the environment more carrying around a few extra pounds in a car or driving a car around for an extra 20 years?
I bet they forgot to study earlier morbidity and its effects when they went about blaming global warming on fat people. And honestly WTF!?
I think someone should mod you "didn't even RTFS". The question is not whether she did something wrong, and the "scary" precedent is not that she got charged for something. The worrying part is that she is being indicted under a really broad interpratation of cyber-crime laws. From TFA, the precedent would basically make violating a website's TOS criminal.
The whole thing is about trumping up charges and setting a bad precedent because while everyone believes what she did was wrong they can't find anything illegal with what she did but they want to lock her away anyway.
Step 4: ???
Step 5: Profit!
Although, step 4 is a pretty big leap me thinks.
Actually, I am more amazed at the number of people who have not read 1984 or understand what something being Big Brotherish implies.
But when it all comes down it doesn't matter since Freedom is Slavery anyway.
It was my understanding that id mostly does engine sales, and Doom 3 was in a large part a tech demo. The punishing requirements were so companies would see this great engine and use it for the game they would releace in 2 yrs. By that time the sys req's would be upper middle of the road.
Well I personally like the ending where his head ends up on a silver platter more myself...
Or even better they're in politics!!! I mean, shoot, the minimum age for President is like ~35 or something; and have you seen Congress? Some of them look like they've been around since 1776!
I personally think that a Ted Bundy merit badge would be cool...
WTF is "Theft of Labor"?! You can steal a product which would be say a book, or you can not pay an employee which would be "stealing" a service. Labor has no intrisic value; the result of labor has value. If I take nine years to write a book and get paid the same as someone who wrote a book in nine months, did they steal eight years and three months worth of labor? As for SK, if anything they stole his permission to copy the book which is a product due to the granting of a copyright. They didn't steal his labor.
And if Rowling has an Official one coming out soon an unofficial one doesn't suddenly make it worthless. The intrinsic value of its officialness just may not be enough to make people who buy the unoffical one to go back and buy another.
And they probably won't because they like to patent doing basic things "with a touchscreen". The only way to get around those will be with really clunky interfaces which won't compare to the iphone which will reinforce the apple mythos...
Stay away from libcreditcard!
I don't know who is responsible, but that lib is responsable for untold numbers of overruns, memory leaks, and runaway processes.
Actually, unless you are Gerald Hopkins from Hoboken, NJ, I think I need to update the database of people who fall into that segment. Currently there are 3 people including Gerald.
per a previous comment the patent was filed last year-ish which means the app wouldn't count as prior art if it didn't exist as such before the filing date