I remember a few weeks ago my girlfriend came over on a Thursday and wanted me to go to a party with her. Thursdays were my guild's Ahn Quiraj raid nights, so at first I was pretty bummed and was trying to think of an excuse to tell my girlfriend. Then I realized what I was doing, gave myself a mental bitch-slap, and put my WoW account on hold the next day. I haven't looked back, though I'm thinkin about starting it back up for the expansion.
From obvious lies he told during the antitrust trial to the one-sided, biased spin he puts on almost anything having to do with Microsoft, I simply cannot trust him.
You do realize that everyone is going to be biased when talking about their company, right? It's a free-market, and this kind of competetiveness has proven to be healthy for the economy, even if you think it's unethical. I can understand your view on the antitrust trials, but speaking with bias? Come on man, it's rather naive to get upset over something like that.
When your child is applying for college, are you going to mention all of his/her shortcomings in the admissions letter? If not, then you're pretty much doing the exact same thing Bill is.
I take it you haven't heard Nancy Pelosi talk about the Patriot act, or any of the other things you don't think will change? http://www.house.gov/pelosi/press/releases/Dec05/p atriot.html Go ahead and tell everyone that still nothing is going to change, we all know you're just dying to say that some more.
Maybe you should, you know, take a break from spouting off random anarchist rabble. Wipe the spittle from your chin, maybe take a shower, and get back to us when you've grown up a bit.
Entrapment is only if the law-enforcer or plaintiff initiates the actual 'transaction'. When police do sting-operations for drugs or prostitution, they have to let the druggie or perv actually ask them for the weed or sex.
It would only be entrapment if the RIAA initiated the upload to you, or messaged you saying "Hey, wanna download some of this rap?" The RIAA may be standing on the street corner wearing fish-nets, a short skirt and clear heels, but it's only entrapment if THEY offer YOU the blowjob.
Ahh, picturing the RIAA as a street-hooker really puts a smile on my face.
I agree with your point, but your analogy is a bit off. In most states if someone sells a gun illegally to an unregistered person, they would be held responsible for negligence; there are laws against that sort of thing (http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m5072/i s_13_22/ai_61645216).
Also, the parents of school shooters have been successfully sued in the past for allowing access to the guns used in the shootings. Illegally selling someone a gun is essentially the same thing. http://149.48.228.121/wgbh/pages/frontline//shows/ kinkel/blame/
But like I said I agree, the RIAA is pretty much bonkers.
Yeah, there's always that... unless they have the fancy keyloggers that physically connect between the keyboard and the computer. Then you're pretty much fucked.
Yeah, I just assumed that whoever put it on there was an idiot Frenchman (St. Maartin has two sides, the French side and the Dutch side, and we were on the French half) who didn't know what he was doing.
I'm not just talking about a minimum-wage teenager at the 7/11... I'm talking about the Hilton New York desk manager neglecting to check when I use my credit card to pay the $250 room fee for my room. I could care less about small payments, but anything over $50 and I want to see my signature checked.
I stopped at a cyber cafe while on vacation in St. Maartin last March to check my work email, and the computer I was at had a Key Logger installed and active in the system tray! I switched to another computer and, sure enough, same thing.
The kicker--the manager of the place made the customers pay for the computer time by entering your credit card information into the computers themselves! Needless to say the only thing that kept me from leaving immediately was the 5 minutes I took to laugh in his face.
...swipe cards aren't secure? Hell, I'm still waiting for CREDIT cards to become secure.
I've been waiting for 2 years for cashiers and salespeople to check my signature whenever I buy something with my credit card. Sometimes I'll sign "Mickey Mouse" or "Donald Trump", or even write a phrase like "Yankees suck!", and I still have yet to be asked even once. With the lack of security on older cards, it doesn't surprise me that these newer ones are no less safe.
First of all, a man like Kim Jong Ill is not rational. Of course invading the South would be detrimental for him, but do you think he wouldn't do it? Invading Kuwait was an obviously idiotic move for Saddam a decade and a half ago, but he still did it.
Second, you confuse 'smart' with 'maniacal' or 'paranoid'. This isn't American propaganda, it's a viewpoint shared by China, Japan, South Korea and Russia. In a nation like North Korea the cream doesn't always rise to the top, and to say that King Jong Ill achieved power by intelligence is, again, naive.
And how is anything I said racist? Either you just felt like taacking on random adjectives that had nothing to do with anything, or you interpreted my saying "little man" as racist, in which case here http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200505/s13771 47.htm/ he is estimated at being just over 5 feet tall. 5 feet tall = 'little man'.
Third, since you implied that Bush's actions were a direct cause of North Korea's desire to join the nuclear club, I assumed that you meant a Democrat would have done a better job. That is what I meant, I just misinterpreted what you were infering a tiny bit, and it is my mistake. But my main point was this: things would not be different if someone else was president; the invasion of Iraq had nothing to do with Kim Jong Ill's decision to produce nuclear weapons. I'm not a supporter of Bush, but if McCain or Kerry or anyone else was president we would have still ended up at this point (a nuclear North Korea), only maybe with a different stand on the issue.
And oh, you threw in a personal attack on the end! It's like highschool all over again.
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I remember a few weeks ago my girlfriend came over on a Thursday and wanted me to go to a party with her. Thursdays were my guild's Ahn Quiraj raid nights, so at first I was pretty bummed and was trying to think of an excuse to tell my girlfriend. Then I realized what I was doing, gave myself a mental bitch-slap, and put my WoW account on hold the next day. I haven't looked back, though I'm thinkin about starting it back up for the expansion.
You do realize that everyone is going to be biased when talking about their company, right? It's a free-market, and this kind of competetiveness has proven to be healthy for the economy, even if you think it's unethical. I can understand your view on the antitrust trials, but speaking with bias? Come on man, it's rather naive to get upset over something like that.
When your child is applying for college, are you going to mention all of his/her shortcomings in the admissions letter? If not, then you're pretty much doing the exact same thing Bill is.
For every Atheist that has killed because of his belief you can name I'll name 10 Muslims counterparts.
Sure, Muslims are often the undeserving scapegoats nowadays, but it's not like it's an unjustified stereotype.
I agree with you about Israel, though--that's one relationship that the United States needs to break.
I take it you haven't heard Nancy Pelosi talk about the Patriot act, or any of the other things you don't think will change? http://www.house.gov/pelosi/press/releases/Dec05/p atriot.html Go ahead and tell everyone that still nothing is going to change, we all know you're just dying to say that some more.
Maybe you should, you know, take a break from spouting off random anarchist rabble. Wipe the spittle from your chin, maybe take a shower, and get back to us when you've grown up a bit.
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Entrapment is only if the law-enforcer or plaintiff initiates the actual 'transaction'. When police do sting-operations for drugs or prostitution, they have to let the druggie or perv actually ask them for the weed or sex.
It would only be entrapment if the RIAA initiated the upload to you, or messaged you saying "Hey, wanna download some of this rap?" The RIAA may be standing on the street corner wearing fish-nets, a short skirt and clear heels, but it's only entrapment if THEY offer YOU the blowjob.
Ahh, picturing the RIAA as a street-hooker really puts a smile on my face.
I agree with your point, but your analogy is a bit off. In most states if someone sells a gun illegally to an unregistered person, they would be held responsible for negligence; there are laws against that sort of thing (http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m5072/i s_13_22/ai_61645216).
/ kinkel/blame/
Also, the parents of school shooters have been successfully sued in the past for allowing access to the guns used in the shootings. Illegally selling someone a gun is essentially the same thing. http://149.48.228.121/wgbh/pages/frontline//shows
But like I said I agree, the RIAA is pretty much bonkers.
Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal." Not worth $750, but considering how awesome the music video is I would say it's as close as you're going to get.
Stairway To Heaven is pretty damn close too.
Uh oh, someone is getting upset over a simple -1 mod!
That's not a side effect... that's an intended effect. Temporary infertility, at least.
It's probably all black and twisty, and comprised of the smaller hearts of children.
It was a sad, sad day when Starcraft: Ghost was announced as console-only.
That's what made it so ridiculous!
Yeah, there's always that... unless they have the fancy keyloggers that physically connect between the keyboard and the computer. Then you're pretty much fucked.
Yeah, I just assumed that whoever put it on there was an idiot Frenchman (St. Maartin has two sides, the French side and the Dutch side, and we were on the French half) who didn't know what he was doing.
I'm not just talking about a minimum-wage teenager at the 7/11... I'm talking about the Hilton New York desk manager neglecting to check when I use my credit card to pay the $250 room fee for my room. I could care less about small payments, but anything over $50 and I want to see my signature checked.
Hahaha! Great link. I've never gone as far as to draw stick-figure comics as my signature, but I think I just might now.
I stopped at a cyber cafe while on vacation in St. Maartin last March to check my work email, and the computer I was at had a Key Logger installed and active in the system tray! I switched to another computer and, sure enough, same thing.
The kicker--the manager of the place made the customers pay for the computer time by entering your credit card information into the computers themselves! Needless to say the only thing that kept me from leaving immediately was the 5 minutes I took to laugh in his face.
...swipe cards aren't secure? Hell, I'm still waiting for CREDIT cards to become secure.
I've been waiting for 2 years for cashiers and salespeople to check my signature whenever I buy something with my credit card. Sometimes I'll sign "Mickey Mouse" or "Donald Trump", or even write a phrase like "Yankees suck!", and I still have yet to be asked even once. With the lack of security on older cards, it doesn't surprise me that these newer ones are no less safe.
I'm running NAV 2007 right now, and it's a huge improvement over the previous versions. I'd damn near say it's good.
Hooray for the off-topic Bush bashing... and to think I thought I would not see it on this article.
Even if it's almost the same cut of beef, the way you marinate and cook it can be different. Use your imagination!
Heaven forbid the technology that may one day eliminate global starvation is immoral to a few people!
"Mr Thompson criticised the decision to have an employee take him through the game, arguing he could have avoided making violent choices."
I can make violent decisions or choose to avoid making violent choices in REAL life, so should we ban real life as well?
First of all, a man like Kim Jong Ill is not rational. Of course invading the South would be detrimental for him, but do you think he wouldn't do it? Invading Kuwait was an obviously idiotic move for Saddam a decade and a half ago, but he still did it.
1 47.htm/ he is estimated at being just over 5 feet tall. 5 feet tall = 'little man'.
Second, you confuse 'smart' with 'maniacal' or 'paranoid'. This isn't American propaganda, it's a viewpoint shared by China, Japan, South Korea and Russia. In a nation like North Korea the cream doesn't always rise to the top, and to say that King Jong Ill achieved power by intelligence is, again, naive.
And how is anything I said racist? Either you just felt like taacking on random adjectives that had nothing to do with anything, or you interpreted my saying "little man" as racist, in which case here http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200505/s1377
Third, since you implied that Bush's actions were a direct cause of North Korea's desire to join the nuclear club, I assumed that you meant a Democrat would have done a better job. That is what I meant, I just misinterpreted what you were infering a tiny bit, and it is my mistake. But my main point was this: things would not be different if someone else was president; the invasion of Iraq had nothing to do with Kim Jong Ill's decision to produce nuclear weapons. I'm not a supporter of Bush, but if McCain or Kerry or anyone else was president we would have still ended up at this point (a nuclear North Korea), only maybe with a different stand on the issue.
And oh, you threw in a personal attack on the end! It's like highschool all over again.