To back up the troll a bit, maybe he went to the FIRST website http://www.usfirst.org/ and just looked at the FIRST Lego League (FLL)information. The FLL group is for 9-14 year olds and actually does use the Lego Mindstorms system. However, the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is much more involved as the parent notes.
Truthfully members of the US Military only have to follow the local drinking laws of the State or Nation that they are stationed in. For example US Navy personnel at sea only need to be 18 to drink on ship because, there is no actual federal drinking age and the US Armed Forces have a default drinking age of 18 when there is no other territorial law to deal with.
I can't believe that I'm about to reply to a GTA quote... Anyway, remember that GTA: Vice CIty is based in the 70's or 80's (it's been a bit since I've played that one ^_^) so maybe back then it WAS easy to start your own radio station. If so, then it says alot about what can happen in a short period of time with the FCC.
As far as I can tell from that website, that is just information from when AT&T sold their cable internet services to Comcast. I was kinda worried there for a moment ^_^;
I know what you mean, my landline provider was Ameritech and my cellular provider was MCI Worldcomm. Worldcomm went belly up and had their mobile phone section bought by AT&T Wireless. Ameritech then got bought by SBC. AT&T Wireless got bought by Cingular which was half owned by SBC and half by BellSouth. Then SBC went and bought AT&T, inc. and becoming at&t. Finally at&t is merging with BellSouth and all of a sudden my landline and cellular providers are soon to be the same company! At least it doesn't seem as though my cable (TV and internet) provider Comcast is going to be merging with any of the above anytime soon (I hope...).
According to this the Supreme Court ruled that the execution of persons who committed their crimes while under the age of 18 was unconstitutional. That it was a violation of the 'cruel and unusual punishment' clause of the 8th amendment. Also according to the same article; China, Iran, and Pakistan also execute minors. We weren't THAT lonely on that list...
I remember these! I would go through and flow chart the page numbers for my decision and the ones I didn't choose. Whenever I hit a bad ending, I would go back to the last branch and try again. It was probably the 'nerdiest' thing I've ever done but it was still pretty cool ^_^
I REALLY need to start reading those ToS agreements...I've been using Orb to stream music to my phone from my computer since I bought my Cingular 8125. However, I can't believe that they are serious about actually enforcing those because, I called customer service asking what the rated speed of the GPRS/EDGE network is because, I was trying to stream music, and recieved my answer without any kind of warning about the ToS at all...I all but told them that I was breaking their rules and nothing happened! Maybe they're going to get tougher now. I guess I need to be more careful.
So...lemme get this straight. You're going to use a mechanical locking device and expect a few horny ENGINEERS with extremely precise equipment and 2+ years of time to not be able to break it? If the people on these missions were unable to do that much, then why would they be up there in the first place?
For Comcast Cablevision's Internet Service:
I rate it at an 8 overall. My tested speed is always close to the stated rates of 4 mbps upstream 384 kbps downstream. I haven't had any provider related downtime in about 4 years except for storms/trees taking out wires or stations and even those were fixed quickly. My only problem with them is that their customer service telephone wait time is VERY long. The last time I called (I was installing a new cable modem and had to get it activated) I waited for 45 minutes before I got connected to a person. However, besides the wait time the service is pretty good.
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To back up the troll a bit, maybe he went to the FIRST website http://www.usfirst.org/ and just looked at the FIRST Lego League (FLL)information. The FLL group is for 9-14 year olds and actually does use the Lego Mindstorms system. However, the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is much more involved as the parent notes.
Truthfully members of the US Military only have to follow the local drinking laws of the State or Nation that they are stationed in. For example US Navy personnel at sea only need to be 18 to drink on ship because, there is no actual federal drinking age and the US Armed Forces have a default drinking age of 18 when there is no other territorial law to deal with.
Actually, Xenosaga 3 on the PS2 is a 2 DVD game ^_^ There are a couple of others but I haven't played them so I'm not sure.
I can't believe that I'm about to reply to a GTA quote... Anyway, remember that GTA: Vice CIty is based in the 70's or 80's (it's been a bit since I've played that one ^_^) so maybe back then it WAS easy to start your own radio station. If so, then it says alot about what can happen in a short period of time with the FCC.
As far as I can tell from that website, that is just information from when AT&T sold their cable internet services to Comcast. I was kinda worried there for a moment ^_^;
I know what you mean, my landline provider was Ameritech and my cellular provider was MCI Worldcomm. Worldcomm went belly up and had their mobile phone section bought by AT&T Wireless. Ameritech then got bought by SBC. AT&T Wireless got bought by Cingular which was half owned by SBC and half by BellSouth. Then SBC went and bought AT&T, inc. and becoming at&t. Finally at&t is merging with BellSouth and all of a sudden my landline and cellular providers are soon to be the same company! At least it doesn't seem as though my cable (TV and internet) provider Comcast is going to be merging with any of the above anytime soon (I hope...).
The answer to that for the time being is no one ^_^ Good thing too since I downloaded it the day after it was released in Japan...
According to this the Supreme Court ruled that the execution of persons who committed their crimes while under the age of 18 was unconstitutional. That it was a violation of the 'cruel and unusual punishment' clause of the 8th amendment. Also according to the same article; China, Iran, and Pakistan also execute minors. We weren't THAT lonely on that list...
I remember these! I would go through and flow chart the page numbers for my decision and the ones I didn't choose. Whenever I hit a bad ending, I would go back to the last branch and try again. It was probably the 'nerdiest' thing I've ever done but it was still pretty cool ^_^
I REALLY need to start reading those ToS agreements...I've been using Orb to stream music to my phone from my computer since I bought my Cingular 8125. However, I can't believe that they are serious about actually enforcing those because, I called customer service asking what the rated speed of the GPRS/EDGE network is because, I was trying to stream music, and recieved my answer without any kind of warning about the ToS at all...I all but told them that I was breaking their rules and nothing happened! Maybe they're going to get tougher now. I guess I need to be more careful.
So...lemme get this straight. You're going to use a mechanical locking device and expect a few horny ENGINEERS with extremely precise equipment and 2+ years of time to not be able to break it? If the people on these missions were unable to do that much, then why would they be up there in the first place?
Truthfully the dubs of Fullmetal Alchemist aren't all that bad. The voice acting is right-on and they didn't edit anything out that I noticed.
For Comcast Cablevision's Internet Service: I rate it at an 8 overall. My tested speed is always close to the stated rates of 4 mbps upstream 384 kbps downstream. I haven't had any provider related downtime in about 4 years except for storms/trees taking out wires or stations and even those were fixed quickly. My only problem with them is that their customer service telephone wait time is VERY long. The last time I called (I was installing a new cable modem and had to get it activated) I waited for 45 minutes before I got connected to a person. However, besides the wait time the service is pretty good.