All posts I've seen from this guy are obvious statements or repeating what is in the article. He is just trying to get his URL noticed (hence it being in both his profile and comment, having it in every comment, and not having it in a sig).
are Americans more or less likely to die at the hands of terrorists after our invasion of Iraq? As far as I know not a single American has died on American soil as a result of a terrorist attack since our invasion. In fact I don't know of any Americans that have died due to terrorists outside of Iraq and Afghanistan.
should being "high" be illegal if being "drunk" is not? In most contexts being drunk is illegal. It is illegal to be drunk in public, to be drunk in the drivers seat of a car, and even to be too drunk in a bar. Likewise I imagine if you are getting busted for drugs you are being busted in a public location, are cultivating it outside, or selling significant amounts.
I would like to note for the most part I agree with your sentiment, but I think too many people do exactly what you accuse our government of with the war on drugs, misrepresenting facts to demonize the problems.
The copyright owner has exclusive right to authorise public performances. Organizations such as ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC are middle-men, who collect income on behalf of the songwriters and musical publishers. When you write a song yourself you immediately own the publishing right and copyright, but with the publishing dollar it is split into two, the "Writer's Share" and the Publisher's Share", which you own both parts of (assuming you wrote the song alone). The problem is record companies usually ask for half, if not all of the publishering rights in exchange for a cash advance or plugging your song. Now bare with me, because I'm about to reveal that many record companies are not nice. An album is cut, and your band goes to the record company, and the company wants to buy your publishing right. You, knowing that isn't the smartest thing, say no. The record label then tells you it wants to collect on the advertising and recording "loan" it gave you, and you owe them 1.1 million USD. This being your first album, you do not have that amount of money. The record company then again offers to give you a cash advance for your publishing right, offering somewhere close to the cost of your "loan" repayment. For the second album repeat again just instead of "loan" repayment replace it with promoting radio play and getting it on TRL.
I wish this were true, but there is something called public performance rights. From ASCAP.com
Public Performance or Performance Rights
A public performance is one that occurs "in a place open to the public or at any place where a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances is gathered." A public performance also occurs when the performance is transmitted by means of any device or process (for example, via broadcast, telephone wire, or other means) to the public. In order to perform a copyrighted work publicly, the user must obtain performance rights from the copyright owner or his representative.
In many cases the record company owns the copyright, and part of the copyright is performance right. The artist can still perform with family and social acquaintances, but they can't play it at concerts without paying fees.
The problem with this is once you start your new company your old label stops letting you perform everything you recorded while with them (not to mention that most hold heavy dept over you to keep you in their pocket). Trying to start anew is a an extremely risky proposal, especially if you have an established catalogue.
Umm... I could be wrong because it has been awhile but wasn't it revealed in the game that Cloud never grew up with Tifa, that he kind of "stole" Zack's memories, putting himself in Zack's place?
resulting in less passwords being scribbled on pieces of paper and left around on the desk, or in the bin
I still don't see why this is a problem. To me if a person is able to get to where the password is written down that means they can have physical access to the machine (unless the computer is somehow locked inside a desk or something, which isn't very practical). With physical access it would be trivial to hook up a key-logger (I believe one of the OSTG sights, thinkgeek maybe, carries them). Or if you know what your doing set up a root-kit.
we may see some kickass storyline games that are well-written around this system.
I have to say some of the games I've had the most fun with have the weakest stories. For example Blaster Master has the great story of a kid catches a frog, the frog jumps down a hole, the kid follows and finds a tank. The rest of the game is classic side scrolling and top down blasting action. I don't remember an introduction to Contra, just start blasting mutants. Also Super-Monkey Ball was a complete blast, but I don't seem to remember a story at all.
Maybe this could be better devised by a handheld computer?
Umm did you read TFA, hell did you even read the fucking summary? Right in the summary: Instead of holding and looking at compasses and bluky[sic]-hand-held sonar devices. This is supposed to eliminate holding items and taking the eyes off of the terrain so drivers can drive better and have better awareness of the environment and threats. They already have handheld devices that can do this, they want to move beyond that.
You can't use your tongue for 1.5 volt batteries! You have to use your mouth! Or at least I haven't figured out how to connect my tongue to both poles without being in danger of swallowing a battery.
Why hasn't that happened to you already? You know there if a facebook for mobile phones now, allowing you to message friends, write on walls, poke people and even add friends (why you would send a facebook message from your cell phone instead of a text message I do not understand, but whatever).
The friends list (like karma whoring for the non-facebook slashdot crowd) is a little useless, but I think the class listings is the best thing since instant messaging. Other then that the only use of facebook to me is checking to see the relationship status of girls I meet on campus.
When my university started on it the URL was www.thefacebook.com, and just www.facebook.com wouldn't work. IIRC the original name was "The Facebook". My friends who go to universities that joined later sometimes make fun of me for still typing in www.thefacebook.com and saying the facebook though.
At my university it seems to be the opposite. All of the emo boys and drama girls are on livejournal, all of the nymphos are on myspace, and facebook is used extensively to contact classmates about projects.
You do have the issue of facebook is already very well established across college campuses. I think you could replace myspace that way, but facebook is as much of a tool as it is a networking site (in my state at every major university facebook is used extensively to locate high school classmates, organize parties, and contact classmates about projects, opposed to myspace which in my experience is only good for finding sex). Just like it being hard to switch people to Jabber, AIM, or MSN it would be extremely difficult to switch people off of facebook, for it is an established tool.
I've seen parent dump a two month old into the back seat whilst they sit up in front and then wonder why the child is howling.
Until a child is one year old and at least 20 pounds they should always be in a rear facing safety seat. You should NEVER install a rear facing safety seat in the front seats of a vehicle, ESPECIALLY one with airbags.
They do when weighted down. As a Michigan driver I can tell you in my experience minivans have the best and worst handling in the winter. With a few 50 pound bags of salt or sand in the back they are great, but when empty and/or on non-winter tires they are the last thing I want to drive on the road (small pickups are also bad with nothing in the back, but our family minivan was much worse in snow when empty than the pick-up).
Actually Canada has some teams playing in the MLB, Toronto Blue Jays is the only team I can think of off the top of my head, but I think there are at least two others.
My god people need to learn how to read. I said Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. There is no Friday or Thursday in that equation. Now to actually be helpful: if you click weekly it gives a choice of days to click. So I should modify my original complaint from not being available to not being intiutive. It took me a while to figure out, but now I am up and running.
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Even with all the features working it will not function for my needs. They really need to work on repeating events, for example as a college student I have a class that meets the same time on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Currently there is no way to input this event, besides putting it in three times.
Because the US won't let them have one, and as soon as they get the US out they can easily destabilized the central government and give all the power to the priests (or warlords, in most cases they are probably both).
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All posts I've seen from this guy are obvious statements or repeating what is in the article. He is just trying to get his URL noticed (hence it being in both his profile and comment, having it in every comment, and not having it in a sig).
are Americans more or less likely to die at the hands of terrorists after our invasion of Iraq?
As far as I know not a single American has died on American soil as a result of a terrorist attack since our invasion. In fact I don't know of any Americans that have died due to terrorists outside of Iraq and Afghanistan.
should being "high" be illegal if being "drunk" is not?
In most contexts being drunk is illegal. It is illegal to be drunk in public, to be drunk in the drivers seat of a car, and even to be too drunk in a bar. Likewise I imagine if you are getting busted for drugs you are being busted in a public location, are cultivating it outside, or selling significant amounts.
I would like to note for the most part I agree with your sentiment, but I think too many people do exactly what you accuse our government of with the war on drugs, misrepresenting facts to demonize the problems.
The copyright owner has exclusive right to authorise public performances. Organizations such as ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC are middle-men, who collect income on behalf of the songwriters and musical publishers. When you write a song yourself you immediately own the publishing right and copyright, but with the publishing dollar it is split into two, the "Writer's Share" and the Publisher's Share", which you own both parts of (assuming you wrote the song alone). The problem is record companies usually ask for half, if not all of the publishering rights in exchange for a cash advance or plugging your song. Now bare with me, because I'm about to reveal that many record companies are not nice. An album is cut, and your band goes to the record company, and the company wants to buy your publishing right. You, knowing that isn't the smartest thing, say no. The record label then tells you it wants to collect on the advertising and recording "loan" it gave you, and you owe them 1.1 million USD. This being your first album, you do not have that amount of money. The record company then again offers to give you a cash advance for your publishing right, offering somewhere close to the cost of your "loan" repayment. For the second album repeat again just instead of "loan" repayment replace it with promoting radio play and getting it on TRL.
In many cases the record company owns the copyright, and part of the copyright is performance right. The artist can still perform with family and social acquaintances, but they can't play it at concerts without paying fees.
http://www.ascap.com/licensing/termsdefined.html
The problem with this is once you start your new company your old label stops letting you perform everything you recorded while with them (not to mention that most hold heavy dept over you to keep you in their pocket). Trying to start anew is a an extremely risky proposal, especially if you have an established catalogue.
and besides Cloud and Tifa grew up together.
Umm... I could be wrong because it has been awhile but wasn't it revealed in the game that Cloud never grew up with Tifa, that he kind of "stole" Zack's memories, putting himself in Zack's place?
resulting in less passwords being scribbled on pieces of paper and left around on the desk, or in the bin
I still don't see why this is a problem. To me if a person is able to get to where the password is written down that means they can have physical access to the machine (unless the computer is somehow locked inside a desk or something, which isn't very practical). With physical access it would be trivial to hook up a key-logger (I believe one of the OSTG sights, thinkgeek maybe, carries them). Or if you know what your doing set up a root-kit.
we may see some kickass storyline games that are well-written around this system.
I have to say some of the games I've had the most fun with have the weakest stories. For example Blaster Master has the great story of a kid catches a frog, the frog jumps down a hole, the kid follows and finds a tank. The rest of the game is classic side scrolling and top down blasting action. I don't remember an introduction to Contra, just start blasting mutants. Also Super-Monkey Ball was a complete blast, but I don't seem to remember a story at all.
Maybe this could be better devised by a handheld computer?
Umm did you read TFA, hell did you even read the fucking summary? Right in the summary: Instead of holding and looking at compasses and bluky[sic]-hand-held sonar devices. This is supposed to eliminate holding items and taking the eyes off of the terrain so drivers can drive better and have better awareness of the environment and threats. They already have handheld devices that can do this, they want to move beyond that.
You can't use your tongue for 1.5 volt batteries! You have to use your mouth! Or at least I haven't figured out how to connect my tongue to both poles without being in danger of swallowing a battery.
Why hasn't that happened to you already? You know there if a facebook for mobile phones now, allowing you to message friends, write on walls, poke people and even add friends (why you would send a facebook message from your cell phone instead of a text message I do not understand, but whatever).
Depends on the job, they were about equally effective for bashing skulls in GTA...
The friends list (like karma whoring for the non-facebook slashdot crowd) is a little useless, but I think the class listings is the best thing since instant messaging. Other then that the only use of facebook to me is checking to see the relationship status of girls I meet on campus.
When my university started on it the URL was www.thefacebook.com, and just www.facebook.com wouldn't work. IIRC the original name was "The Facebook". My friends who go to universities that joined later sometimes make fun of me for still typing in www.thefacebook.com and saying the facebook though.
At my university it seems to be the opposite. All of the emo boys and drama girls are on livejournal, all of the nymphos are on myspace, and facebook is used extensively to contact classmates about projects.
You do have the issue of facebook is already very well established across college campuses. I think you could replace myspace that way, but facebook is as much of a tool as it is a networking site (in my state at every major university facebook is used extensively to locate high school classmates, organize parties, and contact classmates about projects, opposed to myspace which in my experience is only good for finding sex). Just like it being hard to switch people to Jabber, AIM, or MSN it would be extremely difficult to switch people off of facebook, for it is an established tool.
it's been publicly unnanounced, how the fuck do you pull that off?
I might be off by a little, but I think it is pulled of using the "We are at war with Oceania; we have always been at war with Oceania" principle.
Longhorn is the biggest failed project in software development history, at least in the private sector
Umm... what about Duke Nukem Forever? Isn't that still in development, and has been now for like a decade?
I've seen parent dump a two month old into the back seat whilst they sit up in front and then wonder why the child is howling.
Until a child is one year old and at least 20 pounds they should always be in a rear facing safety seat. You should NEVER install a rear facing safety seat in the front seats of a vehicle, ESPECIALLY one with airbags.
They do when weighted down. As a Michigan driver I can tell you in my experience minivans have the best and worst handling in the winter. With a few 50 pound bags of salt or sand in the back they are great, but when empty and/or on non-winter tires they are the last thing I want to drive on the road (small pickups are also bad with nothing in the back, but our family minivan was much worse in snow when empty than the pick-up).
Actually Canada has some teams playing in the MLB, Toronto Blue Jays is the only team I can think of off the top of my head, but I think there are at least two others.
They are related. They are the features he is most known for. There is no causation, but there is a relation.
My god people need to learn how to read. I said Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. There is no Friday or Thursday in that equation. Now to actually be helpful: if you click weekly it gives a choice of days to click. So I should modify my original complaint from not being available to not being intiutive. It took me a while to figure out, but now I am up and running.
Even with all the features working it will not function for my needs. They really need to work on repeating events, for example as a college student I have a class that meets the same time on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Currently there is no way to input this event, besides putting it in three times.
Because the US won't let them have one, and as soon as they get the US out they can easily destabilized the central government and give all the power to the priests (or warlords, in most cases they are probably both).