The US legal system is based on English law, unsurprisingly, as the lawyers in the former colonies knew about that one when they drew up the constitution.
I mixed it up with the legend that the Americans decided to have horses and buggies use the right side of the road when passing to piss off the British.
Actually, England has an inquisitional justice system, and it's precisely the reason why the chums who started America took a step back and said "whoa, this is batshit crazy, let's try something else."
In an inquisitional system, the purpose of the court is to find the facts of the case, by nearly any means necessary. Remember that jolly ol' Spanish Inquisition? They don't share the same word for nothing.
In, American courts, the judge is more like a referree between two opposing sides (the adversarial system). Ideally, the best arguement wins the case.
As Syriana so bluntly pointed out, what'll happen when the oil runs out in 50-100 years? Back to chopping each other's heads off and shouting "durka durka durk?"
God, that must be easy work for the police, looking for people with shifty eyes
Actually, it's a heck of a lot easier than you think. I'm expecting the subway to have soon have a sign at the turnstile saying "You must not be this DARK to enter."
I've put ~200 hours each into the 3 DW games and later Samurai Warriors. Wading into a crowd of enemies and slashing until you get tired will never become boring.
Now, if only they combined it with Diablo/Champions' limitless equipment system, then I'd simply quit my job and wait for the Man to repossess everything out from under me.
REESE: Defense network computer. New. Powerful. Hooked into everything. Trusted to run it all. They say it got smart...a new order of intelligence. Then it saw all people as a threat, not just the ones on the other side. Decided our fate in a microsecond... extermination.
So it's based on the presumption that it's easier to transfer your whole hard drive than sort through the data and burn only what you need. Even with broadband and a reasonably small (5gb) hard drive, you're talking a good day or two at constant top speed (40kbps for me). I think just a small amount of effort in cherry-picking what you really need on the other computer could easily fit on a burned cd or dvd, and take up infinitely less time.
Besides, won't Microsoft throw a hissyfit about this? Technically, if I upload my entire c:\, google now has a copy of windows it didn't pay for. Along with every other registered program in my program files directory. I can't imagine Sony would be too pleased either when they find out I rip my DVDs to hard disk and pass 'em along to google.
Because Best Buy is a chain. Each store has its own boss, but they still have to answer to the Big Boss. In other words, they were already bound by a previous deal
Best Buy's don paid for all the Xboxes, which he then sold to his capos. One of the terms of this sale was that "youse hafta agrees wit company polisees, capiche?"
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The US legal system is based on English law, unsurprisingly, as the lawyers in the former colonies knew about that one when they drew up the constitution.
I mixed it up with the legend that the Americans decided to have horses and buggies use the right side of the road when passing to piss off the British.
Can't the PSP already go out onto the interwebs? Why the extra work?
It's just Emperor Bush teaching Darth Cheny how to use force-lightning in case this hunting accident story requires "drastic" measures.
thus opening up a powerful iTunes-like distribution network for Sony.
Except it's not portable. Insert "wah-wah-wah-waaaaah" sound.
Come on, an internet-required playstation is about as portable as a grammaphone.
Push buttan, receive backdoor :)
I think you're talking about Italy and France. The American common law and adversarial trial system comes from English law as far as I know. IANAL
I think you might be right. The wikipedia articles on the two subjects are a bit confusing regarding England.
Actually, England has an inquisitional justice system, and it's precisely the reason why the chums who started America took a step back and said "whoa, this is batshit crazy, let's try something else."
In an inquisitional system, the purpose of the court is to find the facts of the case, by nearly any means necessary. Remember that jolly ol' Spanish Inquisition? They don't share the same word for nothing.
In, American courts, the judge is more like a referree between two opposing sides (the adversarial system). Ideally, the best arguement wins the case.
As Syriana so bluntly pointed out, what'll happen when the oil runs out in 50-100 years? Back to chopping each other's heads off and shouting "durka durka durk?"
God, that must be easy work for the police, looking for people with shifty eyes
Actually, it's a heck of a lot easier than you think. I'm expecting the subway to have soon have a sign at the turnstile saying "You must not be this DARK to enter."
Q: Now, Mr. Bond. For your mission, we have this keychain-sized laser projector that serves as a stun grenade when the red button is held.
M: Hey, that sounds cool. Why don't you take out the explosive and send one over to my office? Pip pip, cheerio.
Starting civil wars in every western country does help speed that along quite nicely...
And right now Osama's thinking, "Wow, this is better than I could possibly have hoped for..."
I suspect that the actual trigger for human monogamy was annoyed wives
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The dynasty warriors series.
I've put ~200 hours each into the 3 DW games and later Samurai Warriors. Wading into a crowd of enemies and slashing until you get tired will never become boring.
Now, if only they combined it with Diablo/Champions' limitless equipment system, then I'd simply quit my job and wait for the Man to repossess everything out from under me.
That's cause Super Mario World (and Mario 64) were games that were worth their price plus the system in and of itself :)
Someone better call the Whaaaaaarickshaw!
REESE: It was the machines.
SARAH: I don't understand...
REESE: Defense network computer. New. Powerful. Hooked into everything. Trusted to run it all. They say it got smart...a new order of intelligence. Then it saw all people as a threat, not just the ones on the other side. Decided our fate in a microsecond... extermination.
I'd better watch my ass. The CPAA (Card Player's Association of America) might subpoena me for playing poker last night without authorization.
(anyone who thinks the above is really farfetched hasn't been reading nearly enough slashdot lately)
How do you boil a frog?
Put him in a pot of cold water then slowly increase the heat.
While I do love the story, wouldn't it just be a hell of a lot easier (and more merciful) to just throw him in the boiling water and cover the pot?
So it's based on the presumption that it's easier to transfer your whole hard drive than sort through the data and burn only what you need. Even with broadband and a reasonably small (5gb) hard drive, you're talking a good day or two at constant top speed (40kbps for me). I think just a small amount of effort in cherry-picking what you really need on the other computer could easily fit on a burned cd or dvd, and take up infinitely less time.
Besides, won't Microsoft throw a hissyfit about this? Technically, if I upload my entire c:\, google now has a copy of windows it didn't pay for. Along with every other registered program in my program files directory. I can't imagine Sony would be too pleased either when they find out I rip my DVDs to hard disk and pass 'em along to google.
With pressure on Google after the request by the Bush administration for personal information, privacy concerns may be hard hitting.
Me: okay, delete data
Google: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that....
They'd learn a great deal more -- about censorship, lobbying, and how crazy adults really are -- if the teach let 'em play San Andreas instead...
I dunno about you, but my job has me running around corridors in a cardbox box before popping out to snap the necks of enemy guards.
Whoops, gotta go. Getting another call on the transceiver...
Hmm, right you are. Back to school for me!
(like the above responder, I thought it only applied to interstate commerce)
Because Best Buy is a chain. Each store has its own boss, but they still have to answer to the Big Boss. In other words, they were already bound by a previous deal
Best Buy's don paid for all the Xboxes, which he then sold to his capos. One of the terms of this sale was that "youse hafta agrees wit company polisees, capiche?"