point of view of..well..athiest? (i prefer apathist):
Jesus died to redeem us from the original sin.
Who says the other planets screwed up?
Maybe the reason we don't get contact with other planets is god is doing a cover up since he doesn't want to admit he screwed up here, but is too kind to just obliterate us all. Stage one crucifixion PR move, then we're just buried in the arse-end of the galaxy and convienantly 'forgotten'.:D
Couldn't you reverse the IP filter under Options, set it to 'allow', and then just insert networks that are in your area? Or barring that, set it to deny and set it to block major foreign networks.
It wouldn't be 100% perfect unless you were extremely thorough, but could get a majority blocked that way.
I'm not entirely sure if this is a built-in feature, or a result of using the SafePeer plugin for Azureus. If so, SafePeer allows you to customise you list (just turn off the default 'periodic update', and manually add the IP ranges you wish to allow/deny).
"For security reasons all passwords must be 8 characters long, a mixture of upper and lower case letters and numbers, changed weekly, and entered using only your baby finger at an inconsistant speed."
Hunt & Peck-your new first layer of password defense.
"Ontario has reversed course on plans to let Muslims use Islamic sharia law to settle family disputes, and will now ban religious-based arbitration altogether, provincial officials said on Monday."
Then let us share of this cheese...'cuz you are far from alone. Those, some NHL Hockey game, Racing Destruction ("what, make your own track AND race it? YAY!...wtf i can't get up this hill")...Bard's Tale, the TSR Gold Box games...
That's two thing the C64 had for it..a billion games and rampant piracy:D
Dammit I want to play jumpman now (the 'ground explodes when you jump level' please).
AD&D has nothing on cumbersome compared to say Roll-Master.
Anyhow, I never viewed people having went to CRPG becuase of the 'cumbersome system'-I've yet to see a CRPG that really emphasised the role-playing aspect. Some are more like watching a movie then actually playing a game, and others are limited in choices (not stat/build, but as in personal interactions).
Combat-centric areas CRPG trump PnP in speed, but overall are just limited. A solid DM/GM/Storyteller (pick what you want to call the person) can go with the party and respond to their actions. All CRPGs that I know of end up being nothing more then preset dialogues and limited choices, and have a high propensity towards being hack&slash.
Personally I always the superiority of a CRPG was in the not needing a group or DM. I didn't need 4 other people there, or someone to have a campaign ready at that moment-I could just load up Bard's Tale on my 64. With work, family, distances, getting together is just plain difficult and the CRPG gives your 'fix'.
Honestly the only annoyance i've ever heard voiced in PnP gaming over the last few decades was 'gamers' hating being kept in character and not allowed tabletack to dominate. In the MMORPGs I play it's the reverse: most people are chatting about outside-the-game-details, or speaking in stats ("Oh, he has x HP and y DEF, we have a 30% chance to win this, want to go get your monk instead?").
The newer games are much improved over the older, but still I'd imagine the *majority* of RPG players don't RP their characters. Those players wouldn't be attracted to the PnP play since it's more on RP then combat (e.g. Whitewolf system). Powergamers would prefer CRPG, RPrs would prefer PnP, and Munchkins would prefer whichever gives the most +s.:P
It's a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megafauna legit word. I've generally only heard it in reference to extinction 'asteroid struck the earth, wiping out all the megafauna and sending us into an ice age' references.
Personally I think of godzilla movies when i hear the term, so I'm with the 'silly word' crowd.
I could be wrong on this, but i'd view the airwave issue more along the lines of a city park with stage.... and for years the city has allowed one group of people to rent that stage for use. Now however the city is looking into it to allow a new group to use time on that stage. The renters don't own it, the community owns it, the city controls it, and the new renters are just as entitled.
However considering this case is interference in those bands rather then use of them, the analogy would fail since it isn't use of the 'park' but rather a byproduct 'letting some other event ruin parts of the park'--BPL tech should see about lessening the interference rather then just trying to sell it as 'acceptable loss' (no pun meant).
As for giving up the house then there is a market..um..eminent domain already established that that is occuring (not that I agree with having Ma&Pops stores torn down for WalMart).
Off hand, i'd say a lot?
Ayu, Hikki, all the idol singers, etc have a large circulation. Not to mention cpop and kpop like BoA with followings all over.
For example, a survey in thailand gave thai teens to prefer local as opposed to foreign (i.e. western) at 90%+. Just check the content on the MTV Thailand for a large quantity of their local music.
Most of my friends are asian in asia, and prefer their own music as opposed to north american derived.
I'd recommend giving your own head a shake and stop living in a north american/euro-centric dreamland. The entire world doesn't automatically desire NA goods by virtue of their being from NA, and forsake their own. For example, check out oricon for listings of what is popular in Japan-you will see some western but a lot of local music as well (predominantly usually).
I'll grant western music is heavily pirated, but so too is their local; you pirate what you want to hear, and if local music is preferenced...
True, but in the end that statement is rather pointless: if a higher cost doesn't ensure higher quality, then something of poor quality can have a higher cost then something of better quality.
Therefore you could also put it that "Bad things cost more" and still be valid in some instances.
Either way, quality isn't directly (or inversely) proportionate to cost.
**Personally I prefer the adage I saw at a mechanic's shop long ago: Quality, Speed, Cheap-pick any two
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point of view of ..well..athiest? (i prefer apathist):
:D
Jesus died to redeem us from the original sin.
Who says the other planets screwed up?
Maybe the reason we don't get contact with other planets is god is doing a cover up since he doesn't want to admit he screwed up here, but is too kind to just obliterate us all. Stage one crucifixion PR move, then we're just buried in the arse-end of the galaxy and convienantly 'forgotten'.
Couldn't you reverse the IP filter under Options, set it to 'allow', and then just insert networks that are in your area? Or barring that, set it to deny and set it to block major foreign networks.
It wouldn't be 100% perfect unless you were extremely thorough, but could get a majority blocked that way.
I'm not entirely sure if this is a built-in feature, or a result of using the SafePeer plugin for Azureus. If so, SafePeer allows you to customise you list (just turn off the default 'periodic update', and manually add the IP ranges you wish to allow/deny).
Migrate south? That just might explain senator Andrew Thompson
...except aren't birds supposed to return eventually?
Was just thinking that.
"For security reasons all passwords must be 8 characters long, a mixture of upper and lower case letters and numbers, changed weekly, and entered using only your baby finger at an inconsistant speed."
Hunt & Peck-your new first layer of password defense.
Update your information please.
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"Ontario has reversed course on plans to let Muslims use Islamic sharia law to settle family disputes, and will now ban religious-based arbitration altogether, provincial officials said on Monday."
http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx
I highly doubt wikipedia would accept that....
...but you'd probably be able to get it onto the Uncyclopedia
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
lol
:(
That was what I first thought. Turns out it is just for ordering copies of the documentation: have them send you it as a PDF, fax, mail, etc.
Totally shot down my idea for seeing if I could buy one cheap for oil drilling
hemlock is natural too :)
In that instance it did change it considerably.
It was a short message, hinging on one word, and the typo changed the meaning of the post:
intent: there's a war coming, and we don't want to lose it
what was written: we don't want to instigate a new war.
Don't know the veracity of this, but it does detail what you were saying: http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/XB-70_crash_s ite.htm
Then let us share of this cheese...'cuz you are far from alone. Those, some NHL Hockey game, Racing Destruction ("what, make your own track AND race it? YAY! ...wtf i can't get up this hill")...Bard's Tale, the TSR Gold Box games...
:D
That's two thing the C64 had for it..a billion games and rampant piracy
Dammit I want to play jumpman now (the 'ground explodes when you jump level' please).
But standing up against the lesser while being complacent about the greater is hypocrasy. A lot seem to hate M$ because it's fashionable to do so.
You're dead on right (just dusted off the book)...somehow it was turned around in my head...the wrong part of the name got reversed.
My bad *hangs head in shame*. And on that note, being the utterly Pavlovian bitch that I am, I'm off to make tea.
Nah, the probability drive was much more fun...makes your hostess' panties jump 1' to the left.
The imp drive was just good for turning into a penguin.
AD&D has nothing on cumbersome compared to say Roll-Master.
:P
Anyhow, I never viewed people having went to CRPG becuase of the 'cumbersome system'-I've yet to see a CRPG that really emphasised the role-playing aspect. Some are more like watching a movie then actually playing a game, and others are limited in choices (not stat/build, but as in personal interactions).
Combat-centric areas CRPG trump PnP in speed, but overall are just limited. A solid DM/GM/Storyteller (pick what you want to call the person) can go with the party and respond to their actions. All CRPGs that I know of end up being nothing more then preset dialogues and limited choices, and have a high propensity towards being hack&slash.
Personally I always the superiority of a CRPG was in the not needing a group or DM. I didn't need 4 other people there, or someone to have a campaign ready at that moment-I could just load up Bard's Tale on my 64. With work, family, distances, getting together is just plain difficult and the CRPG gives your 'fix'.
Honestly the only annoyance i've ever heard voiced in PnP gaming over the last few decades was 'gamers' hating being kept in character and not allowed tabletack to dominate. In the MMORPGs I play it's the reverse: most people are chatting about outside-the-game-details, or speaking in stats ("Oh, he has x HP and y DEF, we have a 30% chance to win this, want to go get your monk instead?").
The newer games are much improved over the older, but still I'd imagine the *majority* of RPG players don't RP their characters. Those players wouldn't be attracted to the PnP play since it's more on RP then combat (e.g. Whitewolf system). Powergamers would prefer CRPG, RPrs would prefer PnP, and Munchkins would prefer whichever gives the most +s.
Yeah, but knowing Murphy's Law....your clone will set you up and make you take the fall :P
It's a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megafauna legit word. I've generally only heard it in reference to extinction 'asteroid struck the earth, wiping out all the megafauna and sending us into an ice age' references.
Personally I think of godzilla movies when i hear the term, so I'm with the 'silly word' crowd.
I could be wrong on this, but i'd view the airwave issue more along the lines of a city park with stage.... and for years the city has allowed one group of people to rent that stage for use. Now however the city is looking into it to allow a new group to use time on that stage. The renters don't own it, the community owns it, the city controls it, and the new renters are just as entitled.
However considering this case is interference in those bands rather then use of them, the analogy would fail since it isn't use of the 'park' but rather a byproduct 'letting some other event ruin parts of the park'--BPL tech should see about lessening the interference rather then just trying to sell it as 'acceptable loss' (no pun meant).
As for giving up the house then there is a market..um..eminent domain already established that that is occuring (not that I agree with having Ma&Pops stores torn down for WalMart).
Off hand, i'd say a lot? Ayu, Hikki, all the idol singers, etc have a large circulation. Not to mention cpop and kpop like BoA with followings all over.
For example, a survey in thailand gave thai teens to prefer local as opposed to foreign (i.e. western) at 90%+. Just check the content on the MTV Thailand for a large quantity of their local music.
Most of my friends are asian in asia, and prefer their own music as opposed to north american derived.
I'd recommend giving your own head a shake and stop living in a north american/euro-centric dreamland. The entire world doesn't automatically desire NA goods by virtue of their being from NA, and forsake their own. For example, check out oricon for listings of what is popular in Japan-you will see some western but a lot of local music as well (predominantly usually).
I'll grant western music is heavily pirated, but so too is their local; you pirate what you want to hear, and if local music is preferenced...
there are no rain forests or decent atmosphere on mars...so what would be the benefit? lording over two dead planets?
live in domes there, live in domes here... and if we can teraform mars, we'd most likely be able to fix earth much more easily
just failing to see the connection between reaching a dead world and the fate of our own
True, but in the end that statement is rather pointless: if a higher cost doesn't ensure higher quality, then something of poor quality can have a higher cost then something of better quality. Therefore you could also put it that "Bad things cost more" and still be valid in some instances.
Either way, quality isn't directly (or inversely) proportionate to cost.
**Personally I prefer the adage I saw at a mechanic's shop long ago: Quality, Speed, Cheap-pick any two