With enough of these floating cities around the world, making them effectively a single but fragmented country spread across the globe, sovereign under the UN banner, the primary service they can bring to the mainlands of any nations they are in proximity to is invasion.
That said, if this became a big enough thing to effectively become the "Democratic Peoples's Republic of the United Nations", would they then get their own seat in the UN?
Are you sure it wasn't Mr. Tricorder simply claiming Data wanted to be free? (He really just wants his Necco wafers back before attempting to run a worm farm again).
I could have sworn he was talking about ebooks there. Either that, or I replied to the wrong post. Oops my bad. There did seem to be more than a few small handfuls of posters complaining throughout the entire discussion about their ebooks being DRMed, instead of them doing something about it.
Oh well, not the first time I derp posted; and I am sure it won't be the last.:p
If you are talking about Blockbuster still, and not other indy video stores, I can affirm that they did not need the customers' SSNs for their system. I always simply wrote in PRIVACY ACT in the SSN space whenever I would get a new membership at any video store (including BB), and they didn't care one way or the other. They didn't get paid anywhere near enough to care about something like that.
So was the IIGS. Unfortunately, it threatened to outshine the crappy black and white Macs of the time for a lower price, so they just abandoned and largely ignored it; leaving their once loyal users high and dry. I bet that caused quite a few II users to upgrade to a DOS/Windows machine, or even Amiga back then.
I think Neverwinter is still doing adequately as well. But it has been a couple years since I last logged in there. Got bored playing it solo and not being able to find any teams or even interact with other players for the most part.
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Chances are, you would be eating a lot of meat, since fish is meat.
With enough of these floating cities around the world, making them effectively a single but fragmented country spread across the globe, sovereign under the UN banner, the primary service they can bring to the mainlands of any nations they are in proximity to is invasion.
That said, if this became a big enough thing to effectively become the "Democratic Peoples's Republic of the United Nations", would they then get their own seat in the UN?
Are you sure it wasn't Mr. Tricorder simply claiming Data wanted to be free? (He really just wants his Necco wafers back before attempting to run a worm farm again).
That is Muslims that have the thing about their left hands.
These are the people that allow perfectly good food to walk the streets while the greater majority starve.
And looking over the thread, yep. Pretty sure it was just a reply to the wrong reply was all.
I could have sworn he was talking about ebooks there. Either that, or I replied to the wrong post. Oops my bad. There did seem to be more than a few small handfuls of posters complaining throughout the entire discussion about their ebooks being DRMed, instead of them doing something about it.
Oh well, not the first time I derp posted; and I am sure it won't be the last. :p
Why didn't you do the sensible thing and back up your purchases after stripping the DRM out of them? It is easy enough to do.
In other words, quit bitching about your eBooks being DRMed and just simply fucking get rid of the protection. NOTHING IS STOPPING YOU!!!
If you are talking about Blockbuster still, and not other indy video stores, I can affirm that they did not need the customers' SSNs for their system. I always simply wrote in PRIVACY ACT in the SSN space whenever I would get a new membership at any video store (including BB), and they didn't care one way or the other. They didn't get paid anywhere near enough to care about something like that.
Cartman? Is that you?
Or more poetically, "Behold the field in which I groweth mine fucks. Set thine gaze upon it and see how barren it lies."
Wouldn't that be peer to rear sharing?
Or to put it more succinctly, "Don't anthropomorphize planets. They hate that."
So was the IIGS. Unfortunately, it threatened to outshine the crappy black and white Macs of the time for a lower price, so they just abandoned and largely ignored it; leaving their once loyal users high and dry. I bet that caused quite a few II users to upgrade to a DOS/Windows machine, or even Amiga back then.
And hopefully, Congress will remember what happened today and tell them to go fuck themselves. They shit in their salad; they can eat it.
Just as an FYI, the plural of virus is viruses, not virii (which is not even a word).
Show of hands... Who guessed it before even reading the summary?
"Thunderstorms are known to produce brief tornadoes"
Doesn't that only happen when the storm tears through an underwear factory?
Specifically the Onion article about the douche who takes every opportunity he can to tell people he doesn't have a TV?
I think Neverwinter is still doing adequately as well. But it has been a couple years since I last logged in there. Got bored playing it solo and not being able to find any teams or even interact with other players for the most part.
Or how about a balanced mix of both and more instead of having to choose just one?
Were they at war with the Nevertappedatail tribe?
Being of mostly Irish and Scottish descent, I say appropriate all you want. We are awesome that way. :)
Happy Irish Binge Drinking Day! Shame I only have wine handy instead of beer tonight.
A much more effective technique is simply flinging cans of corn at your opponent in an ad hominy attack.
Nope. You are most likely the only one.
Why does it have to be either one or the other (merit or luck), and not a bit of both, with a heavy dash of gottawanna thrown in? :)