What's so culturally phenomenal about modifying stuff? We've been doing it ever since we made flint knives. The only new aspect of "modding" is the restrictions unreasonably placed on it by corpolitics.
Interestingly (or not, as the case may be) the discoverer of "aluminium" decided to call it "aluminum" but the British Chemical Naming Commission (or whatever they're called) insisted that all metals end in "ium" so they overrode him.
I remember reading a while ago that NAT actually turned out to be better than IPv6 by virtue of it "solving" the limited number of addresses problem and simultaneously providing a defence against simple hacking attempts by hiding your real IP address.
Can anyone explain whether this is true or not and why?
Where have you been for the last thirty years? Remember when you needed a whole room and a week dedicated to doing what your pocket calculator can now do in milliseconds?
Actually I was aiming for +4 Funny. I'm as surprised as you that it's modded insightful. Personally I think it's refreshingly great that these vehicles are being used for what they're supposed to.
Did I say Iran is trustworthy? No. You, however, are saying that since the US already has weapons of mass destruction, it should therefore be allowed to create more.
Iran has expressed a desire for nuclear weapons, yes. The US has actually USED them. In an unbiased world, who do you think should be prevented from having WMDs?
Oh that's right. You're a pathetically biased American.
Yet if any other country in the world - lets say Iran - were to do exactly the same thing, how do you think the US would react?
Iran isn't even allowed to build nuclear power plants for peaceful means, yet the US is allowed to stock up on biological weapons material.
Whether its intentions are peaceful, or defensive, or offensive is not so important as the fact that the US would NOT allow anyone else to do the same.
Furthermore, whilst vocabulary within a language can diversify yet remain part of the same language, vocabulary can easily bleed between diverse languages. Consider that the word "television" might exist in Chinese (I've no idea whether it does or not). That doesn't mean that Chinese was in any way derived from Latin (or Greek, I dunno). Words can migrate with ease. You certainly wouldn't expect Chinese grammar to suddenly mimic ours though.
Even in England, different regions use different words and pronunciations (which could count as different words). But we all use the same grammar. It's easy to change the sounds of a sentence, but to change the structure requires hefty evolution, and hence a separation of culture.
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What's so culturally phenomenal about modifying stuff? We've been doing it ever since we made flint knives. The only new aspect of "modding" is the restrictions unreasonably placed on it by corpolitics.
Interestingly (or not, as the case may be) the discoverer of "aluminium" decided to call it "aluminum" but the British Chemical Naming Commission (or whatever they're called) insisted that all metals end in "ium" so they overrode him.
I remember reading a while ago that NAT actually turned out to be better than IPv6 by virtue of it "solving" the limited number of addresses problem and simultaneously providing a defence against simple hacking attempts by hiding your real IP address.
Can anyone explain whether this is true or not and why?
Here's an "insightful" link to go with that...
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http://www.zug.com/gab/index.cgi?func=view_thread
For some reason firefox won't let me cut & paste, so I hope I got the link right.
Price Comparasion Shopping in MMORPG
Aren't you embarrassed by "comparason"?
Aren't YOU embarrassed by your inability to spell a misspelling?
Where have you been for the last thirty years? Remember when you needed a whole room and a week dedicated to doing what your pocket calculator can now do in milliseconds?
Careful - In this day and age you could be sued for stealing their intellectual property!
I suppose if they find government land tax too much of a burden they could always try here: http://www.lunarintl.com/
What the fuck would you want a silent sou...
Oh right. Joke.
Actually I was aiming for +4 Funny. I'm as surprised as you that it's modded insightful. Personally I think it's refreshingly great that these vehicles are being used for what they're supposed to.
than a soccer mom driving her only child in an SUV it's an SUV driving no one.
http://moon.google.com/ and http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html
Less of an opportunistic theft though, isn't it? Unless you have quick-release pants.
Additionally, I though light was supposed to be unable to escape from a black hole...
Carry a proximity transponder in your pocket, so if your bag is nicked it screams "help me, I'm being blagged!"
Calling someone fucked in the head doesn't make your argument any less weak.
The point is not about disarmament - it's about ignoring proliferation treaties while enforcing them on others. It's about hypocrisy.
Disarming the police is absurd, but so is arming your own police while telling other countries they can't.
Did I say Iran is trustworthy? No. You, however, are saying that since the US already has weapons of mass destruction, it should therefore be allowed to create more.
Iran has expressed a desire for nuclear weapons, yes. The US has actually USED them. In an unbiased world, who do you think should be prevented from having WMDs?
Oh that's right. You're a pathetically biased American.
Yet if any other country in the world - lets say Iran - were to do exactly the same thing, how do you think the US would react?
Iran isn't even allowed to build nuclear power plants for peaceful means, yet the US is allowed to stock up on biological weapons material.
Whether its intentions are peaceful, or defensive, or offensive is not so important as the fact that the US would NOT allow anyone else to do the same.
Furthermore, whilst vocabulary within a language can diversify yet remain part of the same language, vocabulary can easily bleed between diverse languages. Consider that the word "television" might exist in Chinese (I've no idea whether it does or not). That doesn't mean that Chinese was in any way derived from Latin (or Greek, I dunno). Words can migrate with ease. You certainly wouldn't expect Chinese grammar to suddenly mimic ours though.
LOL ur so rite!
Even in England, different regions use different words and pronunciations (which could count as different words). But we all use the same grammar. It's easy to change the sounds of a sentence, but to change the structure requires hefty evolution, and hence a separation of culture.
A FUDellite?
Seriously, though - Does it discriminate in what it jams? What about emergency services? What about leakage into non-war zones?
When he wrote this:
a nish
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=b
Isn't there some kind of Monopoly law that prevents these things?
You have to wonder whether local laws can in any way be applied to the Internet.
What if I, in England, publish something that breaks a law in Germany where my webhost resides? Who gets prosecuted, if at all?