This whole article is basically just the same two posts the same submitter (mrcaseyj) made in this article http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/07/224 7244 earlier today. Now his posts may be interesting but anyone who was actually interested in this would have seen these posts today already.
Perhaps it is easier on the PC. I am playing through this game again at the moment and I found that the way to do this mission is to start with the three that are south west of the shop. The way to attack the vans is to fly high and stoop (like a falcon) you dont have to be directly flying at the van as the gun seems to 'aim' itself. One decent sized stoop is enough to blow up the van and occupant. But the other reply about landing on the road is quite a good idea also.
I disagree with charging 50K. Just restrict it. Not everyone can register.gov. It should be very simple to administer. The job of giving out these domains in each nation should be given to which ever body is in charge of licensing/authorising/accrediting a bank in that nation ie. the government or central bank or whatever. After all each conuntry has a body in charge of allocating bank codes, only a business with a bank code can get a.bank domain. Having a reserved and security regulated (at least as much as the country may actually want) domain for a bank, solves half of the problem. The other half, much like any internet spam/phishing issue is education, I'll admit I got a Phishing email from Ebay last year and the only reason I worked out it wasn't a real email from Ebay was due to the nature of being suspicous about every email I receive, I had to look hard to find the incorrect URL but even if I thought it was a true email I would have gone to the site manually not via any link on the email. I dont think that it would be too hard to teach people the simple basics of the internet. Most people dont seem to want to really learn about the boring stuff "because the internet isn't important" but if they are doing their banking on it I think it is time our schools and governments started taking teaching these things more seriously.
The Premier League would still be the highest level, so that's were the best footballers will be. I'd be surprised if the teams couldn't scrape up enough funds in one way or another to pay them an ordinary salary.
Not true. This isn't like Gridiron where the NFL is the only league to be in, if the premier league paid its players less they would move to the Italian league, the Spanish league, the German league, etc, etc. The premiership isn't just fighting for rights to its sport (like the NFL might be) it is fighting against other major leagues of the same sport.
That said, I don't know why they don't go after all the other sites that show football live.
its not just the "rave" scene that like vinyl. any type of dance music (techno, house, breaks) will generally be released on 12" due to the fact that dj's just love playing on proper turntables.
although that said, you will see all the big name dj's using the pioneer cdj-1000 which work on cd's and not vinyl. Well this man - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_oakenfold is the most succseful DJ in the world and (unless something has changed in the last year) he only uses vinyl when DJing.
What I mean is that we in Europe have as much fear as the US. I gave the obvious UK example, your examples are probably just as good for all I know. The parent was just trolling.
Do you really think that people dont know you were the grand parent ac you are agreeing with? The very next thread is by you and making the same crazy argument that "there is no 'genocide'"
And by the way a five character post that has more in the title than the comment is not insightful.
I mostly agree, GTA is an generally curve and for the most part SA is as good as VC with the obvious adition of the fact that the protagonist can swim (I think SA was the first to allow that, how annoying was falling out of the boat) and has more content (which is good if you enjoy playing the game) but the chores (eating, working out) and the whole dancing thing almost spoilt the experience. It just shows that trying to add roleplaying elements can take away "the fun".
China may well be in the wrong and the US probably has a legitimate gripe. So perhaps it *is* better for the WTO to be seen as a proper organisation, that won't happen if the US ignores it wrt to online gambling in Antigua.
note to all - Just read my other comments on this thread, my criticism is not that the US ignores any international organisation, it is perfectly within its rights to do so. But it has no leg to stand on when others then ignore the same organisation (or in this instance its rules). My criticism is the blatant hypocrisy of joining the organisation and then using it while at the same time ignoring the same organisation.
Good point, the regional union example is a good one but to be fair they were just following France's example. Just read about how the Common Agricultural Policy (known as the CAP) came into being.
Welcome to the real world. Any country with power does this. There is no idealism in international politics. What are you gonna tell me next, that the countries that founded the UN hold a disproportionate amount of power in that body? Countries that already have nukes want to prevent those they dislike from gaining them? Say it ain't so!
No of course I am not that naïve. My point is that the US actually expects to always get its own way, all of the time without ever making concessions. Everyone and every organisation obviously work in their own interests but to get anything done in society we have to make compromises. If the US wants to see the WTO slap China it should itself abide by the WTO wrt Antigua.
I suppose you are one of those people who when presented with an unfair law or rule simply respond- "Well, life's not fair!"
Exactly, this is another case of classic US unilateralism. The US government use the UN, WTO and other international groups to get their own way with the rest of the world but then ignore those same groups when the rest of the world has its own issues.
I always remember when some US official was asked why the US didn't recognise the International court of Justice, he replied "because this would allow other nations to bring trials against OUR leaders". The US just doesn't get the idea of "international cooperation", you can't just use collaboration to get your own way without compromise. Perhaps it would help if the US realised that it isn't always right.
Open source in this case means that the textures are part of a library that is available for anyone to legally use. 'Open source' doesn't always refer to source code. Isn't that really termed 'public domain', let us not over use the words 'open source', lest they lose all meaning.
Welcome to the internet in the UK, loads of ISPs advertise 'Unlimited' adsl only to actually have limits. One has been found guilty of false advertising. In fact many ISPs claim to have unlimited use (despite all ADSL in the UK being limited) most only state in the small print that they have 'Fair Usage Policies' (FUP) which will come in when they decide you have used too much, they always imply that there are no limits (one even states "that you dont have to monitor your usage!").
This is simply illegal IMHO, you cannot state that something is unlimited when it is limited. Even if this contradiction comes in the small print, especially when you do not state how limited it is. A c This page http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/caps.htm outlines it perfectly.
Well I reckon that the EU is in the strong position here. iTunes sales in the US are 10%, presumably iTunes sales would be similar in the EU. I dont think that Apple is the wrong doer here, (it's the music industry as usual) but I dont think their defence is particularly strong "they told us we had to agree to break European law"
If the EU demands that Apple harmonize its pricing, then Apple breaks its agreement with the record companies, so the agreement will have to change. Now you might say that the music industry will just walk away from iTunes Europe if they are required to harmonize pricing but I dont think they would be stupid enough to walk away from 10% of a market (potentially) much larger than the US.
I would reckon that there are many more companies price fixing across Europe than the ones you have linked. Like the music industry they are still tring to enforce price differences across the continent. Previously the individual nations were not a big enough market on their own, so multinationals could just threaten to walk away. Now those countries have united to bring in rules to a market large enough that large businesses cannot ignore (although they try).
I have a problem with this in that when the server was down, I couldn't select "offline mode", you seem to have to be online to choose offline mode. So I was locked in a catch 22 situation - I couldn't connect to the server so I needed offline mode, I couldn't go into offline mode because I couldn't connect to the server.
Well people are dumb enough to believe that piracy is damaging profits http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/106698/technology-boos ts-movie-industry-box-office-sales.html - and will soon destroy the industry, unless drastic measures are taken to prevent it. In the UK decades ago they said that 'home taping of radio shows is killing music' and actually got the government to change the law to outlaw taping radio shows. It didn't stop the practice and music is not dead.
The music and film industry has always complained about piracy and yet they go from strength to strength.
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Yes, I thought it was there before but isn't now.
Can I ask what the about:config edit is to enforce this again?
Ontario has a drinking age of 19?
Sorry, when I said "everywhere else", I meant "everywhere else in the free world"
This whole article is basically just the same two posts the same submitter (mrcaseyj) made in this article http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/07/224 7244 earlier today. Now his posts may be interesting but anyone who was actually interested in this would have seen these posts today already.
Let me correct that for you: -
only students in the US go to uni to leech music and movies and drink underage, students everywhere else go to uni to drink.
Perhaps it is easier on the PC. I am playing through this game again at the moment and I found that the way to do this mission is to start with the three that are south west of the shop. The way to attack the vans is to fly high and stoop (like a falcon) you dont have to be directly flying at the van as the gun seems to 'aim' itself. One decent sized stoop is enough to blow up the van and occupant. But the other reply about landing on the road is quite a good idea also.
Having a reserved and security regulated (at least as much as the country may actually want) domain for a bank, solves half of the problem. The other half, much like any internet spam/phishing issue is education, I'll admit I got a Phishing email from Ebay last year and the only reason I worked out it wasn't a real email from Ebay was due to the nature of being suspicous about every email I receive, I had to look hard to find the incorrect URL but even if I thought it was a true email I would have gone to the site manually not via any link on the email. I dont think that it would be too hard to teach people the simple basics of the internet. Most people dont seem to want to really learn about the boring stuff "because the internet isn't important" but if they are doing their banking on it I think it is time our schools and governments started taking teaching these things more seriously.
Not true. This isn't like Gridiron where the NFL is the only league to be in, if the premier league paid its players less they would move to the Italian league, the Spanish league, the German league, etc, etc.
The premiership isn't just fighting for rights to its sport (like the NFL might be) it is fighting against other major leagues of the same sport.
That said, I don't know why they don't go after all the other sites that show football live.
Copying drugs to fight AIDS and other diseases.
Those bastards!
I sit very well corrected.
Please now allow me to be modded down gracefully.
although that said, you will see all the big name dj's using the pioneer cdj-1000 which work on cd's and not vinyl. Well this man - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_oakenfold is the most succseful DJ in the world and (unless something has changed in the last year) he only uses vinyl when DJing.
Read his other posts on this thread first. This guy is either a supertroll or crazy.
What I mean is that we in Europe have as much fear as the US. I gave the obvious UK example, your examples are probably just as good for all I know. The parent was just trolling.
Do you really think that people dont know you were the grand parent ac you are agreeing with? The very next thread is by you and making the same crazy argument that "there is no 'genocide'"
And by the way a five character post that has more in the title than the comment is not insightful.
I mostly agree, GTA is an generally curve and for the most part SA is as good as VC with the obvious adition of the fact that the protagonist can swim (I think SA was the first to allow that, how annoying was falling out of the boat) and has more content (which is good if you enjoy playing the game) but the chores (eating, working out) and the whole dancing thing almost spoilt the experience. It just shows that trying to add roleplaying elements can take away "the fun".
China may well be in the wrong and the US probably has a legitimate gripe. So perhaps it *is* better for the WTO to be seen as a proper organisation, that won't happen if the US ignores it wrt to online gambling in Antigua.
note to all - Just read my other comments on this thread, my criticism is not that the US ignores any international organisation, it is perfectly within its rights to do so. But it has no leg to stand on when others then ignore the same organisation (or in this instance its rules). My criticism is the blatant hypocrisy of joining the organisation and then using it while at the same time ignoring the same organisation.
Good point, the regional union example is a good one but to be fair they were just following France's example. Just read about how the Common Agricultural Policy (known as the CAP) came into being.
You are talking bollocks, in the UK this bastion of fear http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ has a readership of around 10% of the population.
Welcome to the real world. Any country with power does this. There is no idealism in international politics. What are you gonna tell me next, that the countries that founded the UN hold a disproportionate amount of power in that body? Countries that already have nukes want to prevent those they dislike from gaining them? Say it ain't so!
No of course I am not that naïve. My point is that the US actually expects to always get its own way, all of the time without ever making concessions. Everyone and every organisation obviously work in their own interests but to get anything done in society we have to make compromises. If the US wants to see the WTO slap China it should itself abide by the WTO wrt Antigua.I suppose you are one of those people who when presented with an unfair law or rule simply respond- "Well, life's not fair!"
Exactly, this is another case of classic US unilateralism. The US government use the UN, WTO and other international groups to get their own way with the rest of the world but then ignore those same groups when the rest of the world has its own issues.
I always remember when some US official was asked why the US didn't recognise the International court of Justice, he replied "because this would allow other nations to bring trials against OUR leaders". The US just doesn't get the idea of "international cooperation", you can't just use collaboration to get your own way without compromise. Perhaps it would help if the US realised that it isn't always right.
Welcome to the internet in the UK, loads of ISPs advertise 'Unlimited' adsl only to actually have limits. One has been found guilty of false advertising.
In fact many ISPs claim to have unlimited use (despite all ADSL in the UK being limited) most only state in the small print that they have 'Fair Usage Policies' (FUP) which will come in when they decide you have used too much, they always imply that there are no limits (one even states "that you dont have to monitor your usage!").
This is simply illegal IMHO, you cannot state that something is unlimited when it is limited. Even if this contradiction comes in the small print, especially when you do not state how limited it is. A c
This page http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/caps.htm outlines it perfectly.
Well I reckon that the EU is in the strong position here. iTunes sales in the US are 10%, presumably iTunes sales would be similar in the EU. I dont think that Apple is the wrong doer here, (it's the music industry as usual) but I dont think their defence is particularly strong "they told us we had to agree to break European law"
If the EU demands that Apple harmonize its pricing, then Apple breaks its agreement with the record companies, so the agreement will have to change. Now you might say that the music industry will just walk away from iTunes Europe if they are required to harmonize pricing but I dont think they would be stupid enough to walk away from 10% of a market (potentially) much larger than the US.
I would reckon that there are many more companies price fixing across Europe than the ones you have linked. Like the music industry they are still tring to enforce price differences across the continent. Previously the individual nations were not a big enough market on their own, so multinationals could just threaten to walk away. Now those countries have united to bring in rules to a market large enough that large businesses cannot ignore (although they try).
I have a problem with this in that when the server was down, I couldn't select "offline mode", you seem to have to be online to choose offline mode. So I was locked in a catch 22 situation - I couldn't connect to the server so I needed offline mode, I couldn't go into offline mode because I couldn't connect to the server.
Well people are dumb enough to believe that piracy is damaging profits http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/106698/technology-boos ts-movie-industry-box-office-sales.html - and will soon destroy the industry, unless drastic measures are taken to prevent it.
In the UK decades ago they said that 'home taping of radio shows is killing music' and actually got the government to change the law to outlaw taping radio shows. It didn't stop the practice and music is not dead.
The music and film industry has always complained about piracy and yet they go from strength to strength.