Probably, now that I re-read it. But to convey sarcasm on the internet you have to propose something really crazy, like:
"Even though Leo looks just like Tetsuo in his bloated blob form, he has chosen not to be in the film, much to the dismay of the rabid Leo/Akira fanbase."
Akira (2011) Leonardo DiCaprio disappointed many fans of Katsuhiro Otomo's 80s manga strip by declaring that he won't be in this, though his Appian Way production company has set SFX wizard Ruairi Robinson to direct. The title character is a child of God-like powers who may have started the third world war that decimated the 'Neo-Tokyo' that biker gangs skirt round. Blade Runner-tastic. Appian Way are also developing...
Wait, what? There were people that wanted to see him star in this?
So any old mass murderer can drive a taxi can they ?
Well, either that mass murderer is out of jail and has served his time (which if the case, it probably wasn't _mass_ murder), or he was never convicted of the murders he committed in the first place. In the first case, I'm just riding from point A to point B with the man. Is he suddenly going to drive the car into a building to kill me (and himself)? Is he going to take his gun and shoot me? This is such a weird complaint. And if he was never committed, well, who's to say none of the current taxi drivers that are licensed aren't mass murderers?
How about known paedophiles taking your kids to school ?
Pedophiles are currently tracked by the government, I wouldn't put my kids in the car with someone I didn't know about. And once again, the taxi industry can still regulate itself! They will find themselves most successful when they can filter the so-called mass murderers and pedophiles themselves instead of relying on the government to do it for them.
Why are there so many pseudo 14 year olds on this site recently ?
Wow, great argument.
I would imagine that if you enquire into the issue and dig right back to the beginning of the regulation, you will find that the public demanded some oversight of these private companies. Now ill-educated fools who think they have the answer to life itself (because they are 14 years and nearly 6 months old) are complaining about things that "we, the people" asked for.
Now I don't have the time currently to research this but it would be interesting. And most regulation is never demanded by the people, it's brought on wholly from government officials themselves who either want to exercise more control over an industry or dominate it all together.
If you're not 14 years old, start acting like it.
What?
Shut down the FAA, let the airlines self regulate.
Great example, look at what the FAA has done to the airline industry in just the last seven years.
Shut down welfare, turn all the streets into a ghetto.
Ghettos are aplenty across the United States and welfare already exists for these people. It would be better to wean them off welfare and instead allow the local governments and communities work towards progress.
Shut down medicare, let the disease spread.
What disease? Alzheimer's? Lung cancer? Various other old people diseases? Now I am for ending Medicare but not to let the disease spread. I'm not even going to get into this one at the moment.
You actually have enough space to just say "fuck it" pack your shit together and live in the woods.
Yes, I could say that but I would rather not watch my beloved country destroy itself.
But no, you'd rather run the country (badly) from your armchair while taking a large advantage from all the benefits bestowed by the things you want to get rid of.
I also do not take full advantage of hardly anything I'm paying my taxes for. Social Security? Nope. Medicare? Nope. Medicaid? Nope. Public transportation? Nope, I set up my own carpool. The list goes on and on.
The reason Bush got in was because there are millions of people who think like he does. If you think that's good, I'm sorry for your descendants.
Do you really think Bush got in because people think like him? Bush got in because he lied and convinced people they thought like him. In 2000, Bush said that the USA should not be a nation builder. Look what happened to that.
I didn't mean to pick on Bush, he is in illustrious company. But let's face it, he is the poster boy for WTF ?
Agreed, also great post in the Half Life 2 article about drugs. You had me really thinking about that one.
Well, I really should have added a Your Mileage May Vary disclaimer, but for anyone with an HP DV9000 series laptop, you're set out of the box at least now.
If you're a taxi driver, it should be your responsibility (and your company's if applicable) to deal with your insurance company on this fact. Why does the government need to be involved in this?
So yes, I'm implying that taxis do not need to be regulated by the government, they can self regulate within their own industry.
It could happen, but he didn't outright ask anyone to click his ads. I still chose to do it myself, I actually saw one for O'Reilly and spent a few minutes there checking out their new stuff.
They'll just use the local neighborhood watch. If you see your neighbor being picked up or dropped off by someone, you just call the authorities. Even children would be taught to look for these kind of signs at school.
Unlicensed van drives? As in they didn't have a drivers license? Or they didn't have some arbitrary piece of paper that said they couldn't drive around a bunch of strangers?
Well, if he didn't commit _the_ crime he did commit _a_ crime under US law. I'm not saying he should be pursued in the way he was, but breaking into a network is still an offense, whether malicious or not.
I just added ads to my site and I've already paid for half of my hosting in about a week. I think the problem is your target demographic: Linux users. Most of them are obviously quite knowledgeable about things like Firefox, Adblock, Opera, Noscript, etc. My site kind of falls in between with video games. There are knowledgeable people and then there are just kids doing kid stuff.
Plus 2000 hits is not that much, click through ratio is really not that good for any site, your sample size is just not that big. But I did click an ad for you, so you just earned like 40 cents. Yay!
You can pretty much put them wherever you want as long as you don't go "HEY! CLICK ON THESE ADS!" Really, the only limitation they have is don't tell people to click them and don't put anything directly above the ad besides something like "Sponsored Links".
I was an intern for the company I work for full-time now back in 2005 and made $18/hour, in Minnesota. I was doing some interesting web design, Perl, and Business Objects. Stuff I hadn't really done in school (Java, C++, etc.). They actually kept me on during my senior year while I finished school and I worked remotely from my house on campus. That was pretty awesome. Worked like 12 hours a week and made the equivalent of like 30 hours doing regular college work.
Like I said, I still work there, that was probably the best part of it all. Though not counting benefits, etc., it almost feels like I'm taking home less...
Well, I'm glad you live within bar hopping distance of your friends. My college friends are scattered across the country now: California, Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin come to mind immediately (we went to UW). And my work friends are so busy with their real lives we can barely find time one night a month to get together and have some drinks. It happens, Facebook is convenient for all those relationships.
And yes, I've heard of email, that archaic means of communication that is all push push push when interacting with friends should be a healthier balance of push/pull. I've been extremely busy the last week and I can hop on Facebook and learn about all their lives in a span of 10 minutes. Emailing them individually would take how long? Plus I'm just interfering with their lives and asking for a response when they might be as busy as me.
Ignoring the obvious fanboyism, UT3 was a PC game released for the consoles, so the keyboard/mouse decision made sense. GoW2 is a console game that will probably eventually be released for the PC (though they say otherwise at the moment). Gears is made for the controller from the get go.
They explain in the interview (third link I think) that the comic situation was out of their control, but they made it sound like they some how got a deal to finish it soon.
Remember that old rating system for computer games where there was like mercury thermometers used to indicate how extreme something was in sex, violence, etc.? Those were sweet because I would always look for games with lots of sex and sneak looks at the back of the box.
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Probably, now that I re-read it. But to convey sarcasm on the internet you have to propose something really crazy, like:
"Even though Leo looks just like Tetsuo in his bloated blob form, he has chosen not to be in the film, much to the dismay of the rabid Leo/Akira fanbase."
If it ever even comes out.
Akira (2011)
Leonardo DiCaprio disappointed many fans of Katsuhiro Otomo's 80s manga strip by declaring that he won't be in this, though his Appian Way production company has set SFX wizard Ruairi Robinson to direct. The title character is a child of God-like powers who may have started the third world war that decimated the 'Neo-Tokyo' that biker gangs skirt round. Blade Runner-tastic. Appian Way are also developing...
Wait, what? There were people that wanted to see him star in this?
Well, if they cleared all the new expansion content, then what is left to conquer?
So any old mass murderer can drive a taxi can they ?
Well, either that mass murderer is out of jail and has served his time (which if the case, it probably wasn't _mass_ murder), or he was never convicted of the murders he committed in the first place. In the first case, I'm just riding from point A to point B with the man. Is he suddenly going to drive the car into a building to kill me (and himself)? Is he going to take his gun and shoot me? This is such a weird complaint. And if he was never committed, well, who's to say none of the current taxi drivers that are licensed aren't mass murderers?
How about known paedophiles taking your kids to school ?
Pedophiles are currently tracked by the government, I wouldn't put my kids in the car with someone I didn't know about. And once again, the taxi industry can still regulate itself! They will find themselves most successful when they can filter the so-called mass murderers and pedophiles themselves instead of relying on the government to do it for them.
Why are there so many pseudo 14 year olds on this site recently ?
Wow, great argument.
I would imagine that if you enquire into the issue and dig right back to the beginning of the regulation, you will find that the public demanded some oversight of these private companies. Now ill-educated fools who think they have the answer to life itself (because they are 14 years and nearly 6 months old) are complaining about things that "we, the people" asked for.
Now I don't have the time currently to research this but it would be interesting. And most regulation is never demanded by the people, it's brought on wholly from government officials themselves who either want to exercise more control over an industry or dominate it all together.
If you're not 14 years old, start acting like it.
What?
Shut down the FAA, let the airlines self regulate.
Great example, look at what the FAA has done to the airline industry in just the last seven years.
Shut down welfare, turn all the streets into a ghetto.
Ghettos are aplenty across the United States and welfare already exists for these people. It would be better to wean them off welfare and instead allow the local governments and communities work towards progress.
Shut down medicare, let the disease spread.
What disease? Alzheimer's? Lung cancer? Various other old people diseases? Now I am for ending Medicare but not to let the disease spread. I'm not even going to get into this one at the moment.
You actually have enough space to just say "fuck it" pack your shit together and live in the woods.
Yes, I could say that but I would rather not watch my beloved country destroy itself.
But no, you'd rather run the country (badly) from your armchair while taking a large advantage from all the benefits bestowed by the things you want to get rid of.
I also do not take full advantage of hardly anything I'm paying my taxes for. Social Security? Nope. Medicare? Nope. Medicaid? Nope. Public transportation? Nope, I set up my own carpool. The list goes on and on.
The reason Bush got in was because there are millions of people who think like he does. If you think that's good, I'm sorry for your descendants.
Do you really think Bush got in because people think like him? Bush got in because he lied and convinced people they thought like him. In 2000, Bush said that the USA should not be a nation builder. Look what happened to that.
I didn't mean to pick on Bush, he is in illustrious company. But let's face it, he is the poster boy for WTF ?
Agreed, also great post in the Half Life 2 article about drugs. You had me really thinking about that one.
Well, I really should have added a Your Mileage May Vary disclaimer, but for anyone with an HP DV9000 series laptop, you're set out of the box at least now.
If you're a taxi driver, it should be your responsibility (and your company's if applicable) to deal with your insurance company on this fact. Why does the government need to be involved in this?
So yes, I'm implying that taxis do not need to be regulated by the government, they can self regulate within their own industry.
Well, they added the ribbon toolbar to Paint and Wordpad, maybe they'll spend a few minutes on these too!
It could happen, but he didn't outright ask anyone to click his ads. I still chose to do it myself, I actually saw one for O'Reilly and spent a few minutes there checking out their new stuff.
They'll just use the local neighborhood watch. If you see your neighbor being picked up or dropped off by someone, you just call the authorities. Even children would be taught to look for these kind of signs at school.
Unlicensed van drives? As in they didn't have a drivers license? Or they didn't have some arbitrary piece of paper that said they couldn't drive around a bunch of strangers?
Deregulation DID work great, then the government stepped in and regulated.
http://www.downsizedc.org/blog/mark-twain-was-right
Ugh, I hate that kind of thinking. So they supposedly lost 250 million in sales in 2003 but easily recovered that (and more) ins 2004.
Well, if he didn't commit _the_ crime he did commit _a_ crime under US law. I'm not saying he should be pursued in the way he was, but breaking into a network is still an offense, whether malicious or not.
Wasting money protecting source code after the event.
Are you proposing a Minority Report like world where we only arrest people for their thought-crimes before they commit the act?
Did he try 8.10? I was having wireless issues and then I upgraded to 8.10 and they all went away and it works perfectly now.
I just added ads to my site and I've already paid for half of my hosting in about a week. I think the problem is your target demographic: Linux users. Most of them are obviously quite knowledgeable about things like Firefox, Adblock, Opera, Noscript, etc. My site kind of falls in between with video games. There are knowledgeable people and then there are just kids doing kid stuff.
Plus 2000 hits is not that much, click through ratio is really not that good for any site, your sample size is just not that big. But I did click an ad for you, so you just earned like 40 cents. Yay!
You can pretty much put them wherever you want as long as you don't go "HEY! CLICK ON THESE ADS!" Really, the only limitation they have is don't tell people to click them and don't put anything directly above the ad besides something like "Sponsored Links".
I was an intern for the company I work for full-time now back in 2005 and made $18/hour, in Minnesota. I was doing some interesting web design, Perl, and Business Objects. Stuff I hadn't really done in school (Java, C++, etc.). They actually kept me on during my senior year while I finished school and I worked remotely from my house on campus. That was pretty awesome. Worked like 12 hours a week and made the equivalent of like 30 hours doing regular college work.
Like I said, I still work there, that was probably the best part of it all. Though not counting benefits, etc., it almost feels like I'm taking home less...
Well, I'm glad you live within bar hopping distance of your friends. My college friends are scattered across the country now: California, Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin come to mind immediately (we went to UW). And my work friends are so busy with their real lives we can barely find time one night a month to get together and have some drinks. It happens, Facebook is convenient for all those relationships.
And yes, I've heard of email, that archaic means of communication that is all push push push when interacting with friends should be a healthier balance of push/pull. I've been extremely busy the last week and I can hop on Facebook and learn about all their lives in a span of 10 minutes. Emailing them individually would take how long? Plus I'm just interfering with their lives and asking for a response when they might be as busy as me.
Anybody else think that a single-click, deceptively labeled, is adequate for disclosing credit card information?
Deceptive and infringing on Amazon's One Click patent!
Ignoring the obvious fanboyism, UT3 was a PC game released for the consoles, so the keyboard/mouse decision made sense. GoW2 is a console game that will probably eventually be released for the PC (though they say otherwise at the moment). Gears is made for the controller from the get go.
Also Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings was an RTS.
They explain in the interview (third link I think) that the comic situation was out of their control, but they made it sound like they some how got a deal to finish it soon.
Remember that old rating system for computer games where there was like mercury thermometers used to indicate how extreme something was in sex, violence, etc.? Those were sweet because I would always look for games with lots of sex and sneak looks at the back of the box.
Go Leisure Suit Larry.