special goggles can be obtained for specific wavelengths, which will ensure that you cannot see the laser - and hence it can't hurt you Of course if don't get the right wavelengths...
Also in an episode of Battlestar Galactica where the Cheif and Cally were trapped in a cargohold and they had to blow open the door and catch them with a Raptor.
Amen to nukes, brother. Can you imagine a situation in which Apophis was just a little bit closer to hitting us and we had never had a cold war with Russia? We'd be royally screwed, we would. Its okay, SG-1 would save the day at the last minute, they always do.
But you can easily argue that recording the entire movie and posting it on a torrent site also "promotes" the movie. Or that posting TV shows not available in certain markets "promote" the TV show. In fact, many make just that argument. Indeed, you can find many examples of how online "piracy" has increased or enhanced loyalty to various music, television shows, and so on.
While I agree with you on the bit about the movies, I have to take issue with the bit about TV shows. If a TV show is unavailable in a given location, getting it off the internet really can promote the series. If its good and people like it, then they might buy the related merchandise, or the DVDs when they come out.
And for shows that pretty much require you to watch every episode to know what it going on, distribution on the internet is going to do nothing but help them. If John Doe misses an episode (or a few episode) and becomes completely lost, he may end up not watching the show at all, but if he can get the episode(s) that he missed on the internet and get caught up, how is that a bad thing?
The only real issue I can see with TV shows is that the commercials are stripped out, after all (for non-cable shows) they broadcast it for free over the air, so how does it make sense that they also charge you for it (like on iTunes). If the networks were to offer their shows in HD as bittorrents with the commercials still intact, I'd be more willing to grab those than the ones created by third parties, and then everyone wins.
Some networks allow you to watch episodes of their shows on their website (typically in crappy flash-based players), which I suppose is a step in the right direction, but the quality is lacking, they don't release it the same day as the broadcast (it's usually a few days later), and you have to watch it in your web browser on your computer (i.e. you can't transfer it to your PVR and watch it on your TV)
One of the clearest signs of global warming (human-caused or otherwise) is an increase in algae using up waterborne oxygen and causing fish deaths. Can we scoop up that algae and kill 2 birds with one stone? So we'll reduce global warming by killing off all the birds, two at a time?
Why can't it be both? I've never understood that. It's only really naive people who take the biblical creation story completely literally, especially when it's been translated so many times from the original. For example, when it says that the earth was created in six days that doesn't mean six twenty-four-hour periods. God could have just as easily taken his sweet time and created the world over millions of years (after all he invented everything that we use science to try and figure out), but try explaining that to people 2000 years ago...
But if they cant even fly down a EMU because of its weight... whats going to happen if god-forbid they need to emergency evac the ISS and the only thing left to leave on is a Orion? The grandparent was talking about the weight capacity of the Orion, not that they would need to use the EMUs; the point being that they wouldn't be able to take all of the people from the ISS with them in case of an emergency.
Think about the purpose of that site for a second: the whole idea of match.com is you post a picture and a profile so you can meet new people. You're already spilling a ton of personally-identifiable information about yourself, and presumably someone is going to be able to search for you - so why get pissy about someone being able to determine that your e-mail address is registered there? That's what I was thinking too.
Also, in the example given, there's no mention that the account is currently active. What's to say that the guy had an account previously and has since discontinued it's use? Wouldn't his email address still be tied to an (inactive) account?
5) Adultery, stalking, speeding, trespassing, etc. are examples of a few of the many crimes that would be obsoleted due to their degree of difficulty and the ease with which transgressors would be identified. Since when has Adultery been a crime?
Okay, maybe we are not quite ready for all of this yet, at least the democrats, but the republicans and Attorney General Gonzales would be down with it, no doubt. I don't know what kind of republicans you know, but this is the exact kind of thing that all of the republicans I know are afraid of most.
Sadly, gamers are stuck with MS for the time being. On the contrary, I got my new computer (with dual SLI Nvidia 8800GTSes) running World of Warcraft, Ventrilo, and EVE under Ubuntu with only moderate work/tweaking, and I attribute those minor setbacks to the fact that I am running on almost-bleeding-edge hardware where the driver support isn't as stable as the older stuff (especially with my dual-core AMD64). I now have no reason to run Windows.
I'll agree that Linux is probably not quite ready for the average gamer because of driver/game support (sometimes it doesn't "just work"), but it's getting there.
In an attempt to foil Microsoft's plans for internet advertising domination, Google has upped the bidding to eleventy billion dollars, a number which does not even exist. Yet. I know Kung Fu.
I support taking them away from all nations. There's no justification for weapons of that type anymore. Nobody should have them. While that's a great idea on paper, it's not practical. Pandora's box is opened, and there will always be some hold outs who won't get rid of theirs.
Countries with hundreds of nukes don't scare me, it's the guy with one nuke that scares me.
I don't know if you have, but you should check out EVE Online if you haven't. It fits well with your suggestions. Just keep in mind that it has a VERY steep learning curve.
1 & 2. You can download the game client for free and create a new account for $19.95 which includes the first month of game time (that's only slightly more expensive for the first month). Also, they have a system built-in where you can trade in-game money to other players for more game time (i.e. someone else buys a game-time-card and sells it to you for in-game money).
3. This is one area where the game (and entire genre) is lacking. It's possible to get the game running on non-windows OSes, but that may take a lot of work and may be kind of flaky. I agree that this really needs to be addressed.
4. While EVE is very PvP oriented, you can stay in high security areas and have minimal risk of being blown up by someone else, if you so choose.
5. EVE is sci-fi. Has in-game email, complicated market system (comparable to a real economy), hell there's even a built-in web browser.
6. No spyware (that I am aware of), but I can't really speak on how "abusive" the EULA may or may not be.
7. This is probably the best feature of the game: it does not require bleeding-edge hardware, and is still the most visually stunning game I have ever played. I recently got a laptop with integrated Intel 945 graphics and while it struggles to run WoW (it runs, but it's barely playable, if that), but it runs EVE flawlessly.
8. That's the beauty (and sometimes annoyance) of the skill system in EVE: you're character learns skills in real-time, whether you are currently logged in or not). You'll need to log in after the skill is finished to start learning a new one, but you don't need to be online the whole time. This makes it so you can play a little on the weekends (and perhaps log in once in a while for a minute to start a new skill), and you won't be any worse off than someone who was playing the entire time (aside from probably having less money).
Remember that many of the founding fathers saw the second amendment as a "do-over" or reset switch for the government - if things got out of hand, the citizens could always overthrow it. The real problem with this now, is that with our level of technology (and the large gap between military and civilian arms) it's not likely that this would be much of a possibility. You don't see civilians running around with tanks or fighter jets.
I don't have any experience with the s-video output, but getting my second monitor working on my Edgy install (haven't updated that machine yet) was a little annoying (at least in first figuring out what it was I needed) to get it working, but it certainly didn't require sacrificing a goat.
Of course I was able to just use the twinview option of my nvidia drivers, but it was far easier than the hoops I needed to jump through to get it working on my previous Gentoo install (and even that wasn't terribly bad). One advantage I've noticed for xinerama over twinview is that with xinerama I could run two full screen applications (one in each window), and twinview seems to just utilize the primary monitor and ignore the second one.
Step 1: Install xinerama or twinview (if you have nvidia drivers, you already have it) Step 2: Make a few adjustments to/etc/X11/xorg.conf
Granted, if you're a new user, editing your X config file can be a little overwhelming or make you nervous, but once you're done it a few times, it's not so bad.
"The Iraq war was won almost overnight. That was is over and we defeated the enemy easily. What we are doing over in Iraq right now is not a war..."
Thank you! I'm so sick of hearing everyone talk about the "war in Iraq". It bugs me to no end. I'm glad that there's at least someone else that realizes this.
PS: Just be careful not to get electrocuted by your t-shirt (don't worry, I don't see a market for solar-powered underwear). What about solar-powered swimsuits?
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My eyes! The goggles, they do nothing!
Also in an episode of Battlestar Galactica where the Cheif and Cally were trapped in a cargohold and they had to blow open the door and catch them with a Raptor.
While I agree with you on the bit about the movies, I have to take issue with the bit about TV shows. If a TV show is unavailable in a given location, getting it off the internet really can promote the series. If its good and people like it, then they might buy the related merchandise, or the DVDs when they come out.
And for shows that pretty much require you to watch every episode to know what it going on, distribution on the internet is going to do nothing but help them. If John Doe misses an episode (or a few episode) and becomes completely lost, he may end up not watching the show at all, but if he can get the episode(s) that he missed on the internet and get caught up, how is that a bad thing?
The only real issue I can see with TV shows is that the commercials are stripped out, after all (for non-cable shows) they broadcast it for free over the air, so how does it make sense that they also charge you for it (like on iTunes). If the networks were to offer their shows in HD as bittorrents with the commercials still intact, I'd be more willing to grab those than the ones created by third parties, and then everyone wins.
Some networks allow you to watch episodes of their shows on their website (typically in crappy flash-based players), which I suppose is a step in the right direction, but the quality is lacking, they don't release it the same day as the broadcast (it's usually a few days later), and you have to watch it in your web browser on your computer (i.e. you can't transfer it to your PVR and watch it on your TV)
You can also dodge bullets!
... punch through concrete and steel?
Why can't it be both? I've never understood that. It's only really naive people who take the biblical creation story completely literally, especially when it's been translated so many times from the original. For example, when it says that the earth was created in six days that doesn't mean six twenty-four-hour periods. God could have just as easily taken his sweet time and created the world over millions of years (after all he invented everything that we use science to try and figure out), but try explaining that to people 2000 years ago...
I'll agree that Linux is probably not quite ready for the average gamer because of driver/game support (sometimes it doesn't "just work"), but it's getting there.
Except that those people are probably already drinking a Mountain Dew at the time, so there's no need to advertise to them.
Countries with hundreds of nukes don't scare me, it's the guy with one nuke that scares me.
Fox, on the other hand, has a habit of killing shows before even really giving them a chance.
I don't know if you have, but you should check out EVE Online if you haven't. It fits well with your suggestions. Just keep in mind that it has a VERY steep learning curve.
1 & 2. You can download the game client for free and create a new account for $19.95 which includes the first month of game time (that's only slightly more expensive for the first month). Also, they have a system built-in where you can trade in-game money to other players for more game time (i.e. someone else buys a game-time-card and sells it to you for in-game money).
3. This is one area where the game (and entire genre) is lacking. It's possible to get the game running on non-windows OSes, but that may take a lot of work and may be kind of flaky. I agree that this really needs to be addressed.
4. While EVE is very PvP oriented, you can stay in high security areas and have minimal risk of being blown up by someone else, if you so choose.
5. EVE is sci-fi. Has in-game email, complicated market system (comparable to a real economy), hell there's even a built-in web browser.
6. No spyware (that I am aware of), but I can't really speak on how "abusive" the EULA may or may not be.
7. This is probably the best feature of the game: it does not require bleeding-edge hardware, and is still the most visually stunning game I have ever played. I recently got a laptop with integrated Intel 945 graphics and while it struggles to run WoW (it runs, but it's barely playable, if that), but it runs EVE flawlessly.
8. That's the beauty (and sometimes annoyance) of the skill system in EVE: you're character learns skills in real-time, whether you are currently logged in or not). You'll need to log in after the skill is finished to start learning a new one, but you don't need to be online the whole time. This makes it so you can play a little on the weekends (and perhaps log in once in a while for a minute to start a new skill), and you won't be any worse off than someone who was playing the entire time (aside from probably having less money).
I don't have any experience with the s-video output, but getting my second monitor working on my Edgy install (haven't updated that machine yet) was a little annoying (at least in first figuring out what it was I needed) to get it working, but it certainly didn't require sacrificing a goat.
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
Of course I was able to just use the twinview option of my nvidia drivers, but it was far easier than the hoops I needed to jump through to get it working on my previous Gentoo install (and even that wasn't terribly bad). One advantage I've noticed for xinerama over twinview is that with xinerama I could run two full screen applications (one in each window), and twinview seems to just utilize the primary monitor and ignore the second one.
Step 1: Install xinerama or twinview (if you have nvidia drivers, you already have it)
Step 2: Make a few adjustments to
Granted, if you're a new user, editing your X config file can be a little overwhelming or make you nervous, but once you're done it a few times, it's not so bad.
"The Iraq war was won almost overnight. That was is over and we defeated the enemy easily. What we are doing over in Iraq right now is not a war..." Thank you! I'm so sick of hearing everyone talk about the "war in Iraq". It bugs me to no end. I'm glad that there's at least someone else that realizes this.