Nah, racial profiling doesn't work with Muslims. Islamists are bloodthirsty and ruthless. These Muslims will kill their own children if it means they can murder non-muslims too.
Read about this Muslim that wanted to blow up a plane but knew he couldn't get a bomb past Israel's racial profiling based security. So he seduced an Irish woman and got her pregnant, to complete his cover story he even got engaged to her.
Then the Muslim put her on a plane and snuck a bomb into her luggage. He knew the weakness to racial profiling. A pregnant Irish woman could get past Israeli security, a young Arab from the Middle East couldn't. The Irish gf had no idea she was being used as part of a terrorist plot, she thought she was going to meet her fiance's parents. The fact is he was willing to kill his fiance and his own unborn child to blow up some infidels. Oh, and he wasn't planning to even be on that flight.
You can read more about this case here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindawi_Affair
Here in Queens, NY we have an abundance of game rooms. It's sort of a backlash created by a large, immigrant population that pressures their kids to study and do well in school while being unable to afford a home computer or strictly regulating PC use at home.
Some of these game retailers full blown cyber-cafes that include LAN access and even host their own bakeries and stylish decor. Others are a bare room above a nail salon. Many have been in business for years so they can't be hurting for income.
If you plan to be open during school hours check your local laws. The success of these game rooms led to laws making it illegal in NYC to allow a school age minor into a gaming room during daytime school hours. The management are responsible for checking IDs and risk relatively serious fines for violations. The city decided the owners should be the parents.
We heard this line about piracy killing the entertainment industry for 2 decades. What has changed?
Production costs of new games keep rising while in my opinion, the fun factor is dropping. I rarely pirate games because so few of them are worth playing. I don't see how the industry has an edge in the console market, my friends that own consoles rarely buy new games, they do buy their games used or trade them. Lots of them use modchips too, but the vast majority of them rent. Why can't we rent computer games? I wish I could rent computers games for a fair price and without all the copyright protection hastle of past rental schemes.
Just my two sense but easier, quicker and cheaper development is what's needed to breathe new life (and sales) into the gaming industry. Right now there are too many industry bottlenecks for creative designers to get their games produced. Instead all we get are cookie cutter clones of whatever game is popular at the moment.
Some bloggers noticed a problem with the timestamps of his photographs as well. He allegedly photographed that same dead child being held up over a period of several hours by the same "rescue worker" that appears in many of the photos. The photos in all possibility appear staged. For news photographers that's a cardinal sin, or "haram" in this case. But previously Reuters denied all such allegations.
William Gibson's "Idoru" had me expecting virtual celebrities to come out of Japan first.
On the other hand nobody more than Mel Gibson could probably use a virtual Mel Gibson right now. A virtual Mel that can only drink whatever comes out of the Internet tubes and not his pub's taps.
In my old mu* I've seen a male character rp'd by a woman marry a female character rp'd by a man. Neither of them were aware of the RL gender situation until their IC and RL relationships were both serious. Let's see a constitutional amendment attempt to ban that.
As a rule of thumb, if a person says they're female and acts normal, they probably are. If, on the other hand, they act sickeningly cute and helpful and otherwise girly, it's typically a safe bet that you're dealing with one or more of the following: a man, a pre-teen girl, or a really fat/ugly girl who acts cute on the internet to get the attention she so desperately needs.
No wonder you can find real, normal females in internet games today. MMORPGs have turned into my ex's soap operas. If the Queen has balls, it's because she's probably a guy, in WOW at least.
By these figures, the USA is not so bad considering the ethnic makeup of America is much more varied than the Netherlands and England.
Country IQ estimate
Hong Kong 107
South Korea 106
Germany 102
Italy 102
Netherlands 102
UK 100
Denmark 98
France 98
Norway 98
USA 98
Czech Republic 97
Finland 97
Israel 94
Turkey 90
Mexico 87
Lebanon 86
Iran 84
Nepal 78
Qatar 78
Jamaica 72
South Africa 72
Nigeria 67
Equ. Guinea 59
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_the_Wealth_of_ Nations#National_IQ_estimates
I started playing a MUD because all my friends did it and I just wanted to fit in. I spent thousands of hours over the next 6 or 7 years grinding through this MUD that lacks a defined endgame. The developers make sure there are always more skills to master or abilities to fine-tune. The actual end for me finally came when my gameplay experience was ruined by a jealous and bitter rival player that became an administrator. I was lucky, many players never truly kick it, they kinda burn out from trying to stay on top and then they enter a pitiful cycle of attempts to regain their past glory. It really does keep people locked away from new experiences.
In the two or three years since I quit cold turkey I put on about 20-25 PC games without even realizing it. Whenever I get even remotely curious about a MMO or a friend tries to get me to just try his guild for a good time I stop myself and admit there is a higher power and a monthly subscription fee. So instead of getting lost in the dark dungeon of leveling I pick up a single player/lite multi-player game that lacks online ranking and locked items. I'm also looking into picking up a console and bunch of controllers to bring back the social aspects of gaming with friends and family in the living room that my own friends and I seem to have lost.
Pastry, pasty, some Irish comic with a thick brogue accent, it's too obscure even for me...
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"So, if I'm a terrorist... and I look like I'm a terrorist... I just find a white girl-friend who is the opposite of your "profile" and I pack her carry-on baggage with my weapons. Without her knowledge."
That's already been done. It's why profiling doesn't work. And I'm not middle eastern, I'm of pasty Irish ancestry. I could pass as a danish./rimshot
"In 1986, Nezar Hindawi, a Jordanian national then residing in Britain, told his pregnant Irish girlfriend to fly to Israel from London and that he would meet her there via Jordan. Before she boarded the El Al jumbo jet in London, it was discovered by airport security that the false bottom of her hand luggage concealed a bomb powerful enough to blow the jumbo jet out of the sky. She told authorities that the hand luggage was a gift from her fiancé Nezar Hindawi and that she could not believe that he would knowingly endanger her or his own unborn child. When Hindawi was arrested he revealed that he was a paid agent for Syria and claimed that he had been specifically instructed by Syria to romance and then impregnate a naive woman who could be utilized as a completely unwitting human bomb and thereby more likely avoid detection by airport security (who then operated according to standardized terrorist profiles). So convincing was the evidence of Syria's hand behind this attempt to obliterate a civilian passenger plane that Britain suspended diplomatic relations with Syria for a number of years thereafter."
"Finally, someone is going to have to refil and empty _that_ beast."
When was the last time one had to drain or fill his or her washing machine or dishwasher by hand? It's connected to the home plumbing system. I'd expect iRobot to work within this existing home infrastructure. Such major appliances can be found for around $400, same price as the Scooba. People are comfortable with having such monstrous appliances in their home. It'd hardly be as complicated as an in-flight refuling from a tanker to a fighter jet.
Is it difficult to refill the cleaning solution or empty the dirty water? It would be neat for iRobot to make a home base unit which automates that process. A small service station that empties and refills the appropriate tanks as well as recharging the Scooba. The goal should be to have it as automated as possible.
First we hear about our beloved, albeit cloned bananas at risk of going extinct, now Apples and Windows lemons are in danger... it's all over folks. Get out your tin foil and wrap your fruit up tight.
Except $200 in the mid 1980s when Nintendo launched around the world is more like $350(?) or so in today's money. And that pattern of inflation follows with the later consoles.
Then again a little bird Sony told me that the Nintendo is using hardware from 1985 for the Wii.
"Oh yes I loved being in new york when the trains werent running. 60K a year retire at 55 and they wanted to retire at 50. No one owes you a job or a life you have to make your own."
Yeah, because 60k in NY is such a fortune. The city needs to keep its working class and not allow the state operated MTA to drive them away, no pun intended. Can't have a big apple that has a super rich and shiny skin, a poverty stricken core, and no middle...
In NYC it was just reported how non-union employers are still hiring thugs from the ghetto to come up to picket lines and threaten strikers with guns. But this is 2006, corporate doesn't need professional strike breakers anymore when they have all of you non-union employees willing to do the dirty work for them. http://villagevoice.com/news/0619,robbins,73148,5. html
It's unbelievable how non-union employees try to drag union workers down to their disposebable level. Keep sacrificing yourself and your family to the major shareholders instead of trying to achieve the same shared successes that union workers won.
Why should I be shocked that a spy agency knows who I called? Anyone can go on the internet and within a few hours and some heavy change get the phone records of anybody else. Even spy and law enforcement agencies were using these shady services. And how does that work? Expensive backbone wiretaps? Nope, it's just a bit of social engineering done by the PI. Or its an inside man with a entry level customer service job that has access to these phone records. on demand It all comes down to phone company security being pathetically weak.
True, with good connectivity. But the origami teaser showed peopled not tied down to any hotspots. They were driving around, in stairwells, airplanes, the beach....
Right now that type of connectivity is not available in enough places for a tempting price. For that type of money one could have a serf lug around a desktop replacement laptop and let you use his back as a desktop...
I don't know. I'm not too excited about this or the Origami. Handheld systems still fail to meet the most basic expectations or needs of the power PC user and that's the market these devices need to capture first.
I've owned PDAs for years and quite fond of them despite everything bad for some important reasons. One, they are really tiny, pocket sized tiny. Two, using a PDA makes me feel as if I'm in a small "lilliputian" world. That's where all the applications and features are specially made for us tiny PPC people and our tiny universe's different set of physics and natural laws.
On the other hand, what about carrying around a woefully underpowered handheld "desktop" with a full installion of the same XP or Linux distro I have on my desktop? Well that just makes me feel like a eunch. Everytime I want to use a cool, maybe resource hungry app that I have on my desktop I'll be reminded how I'm castrated by these "lite" system specs. Forever forced to live in the real world but forever knowing I'm missing out.
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Nah, racial profiling doesn't work with Muslims. Islamists are bloodthirsty and ruthless. These Muslims will kill their own children if it means they can murder non-muslims too. Read about this Muslim that wanted to blow up a plane but knew he couldn't get a bomb past Israel's racial profiling based security. So he seduced an Irish woman and got her pregnant, to complete his cover story he even got engaged to her. Then the Muslim put her on a plane and snuck a bomb into her luggage. He knew the weakness to racial profiling. A pregnant Irish woman could get past Israeli security, a young Arab from the Middle East couldn't. The Irish gf had no idea she was being used as part of a terrorist plot, she thought she was going to meet her fiance's parents. The fact is he was willing to kill his fiance and his own unborn child to blow up some infidels. Oh, and he wasn't planning to even be on that flight. You can read more about this case here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindawi_Affair
Here in Queens, NY we have an abundance of game rooms. It's sort of a backlash created by a large, immigrant population that pressures their kids to study and do well in school while being unable to afford a home computer or strictly regulating PC use at home.
Some of these game retailers full blown cyber-cafes that include LAN access and even host their own bakeries and stylish decor. Others are a bare room above a nail salon. Many have been in business for years so they can't be hurting for income.
If you plan to be open during school hours check your local laws. The success of these game rooms led to laws making it illegal in NYC to allow a school age minor into a gaming room during daytime school hours. The management are responsible for checking IDs and risk relatively serious fines for violations. The city decided the owners should be the parents.
Would a robot instructed to do no harm to humans sell an obese customer a supersized burger, fries and sugary cola?
The robot would have to practice self defense when the customer attacks it.
Most of us have seen this old anti-piracy ad campaign from the early 90s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afuc8TmU2Rg
We heard this line about piracy killing the entertainment industry for 2 decades. What has changed?
Production costs of new games keep rising while in my opinion, the fun factor is dropping. I rarely pirate games because so few of them are worth playing. I don't see how the industry has an edge in the console market, my friends that own consoles rarely buy new games, they do buy their games used or trade them. Lots of them use modchips too, but the vast majority of them rent. Why can't we rent computer games?
I wish I could rent computers games for a fair price and without all the copyright protection hastle of past rental schemes.
Just my two sense but easier, quicker and cheaper development is what's needed to breathe new life (and sales) into the gaming industry. Right now there are too many industry bottlenecks for creative designers to get their games produced. Instead all we get are cookie cutter clones of whatever game is popular at the moment.
Some bloggers noticed a problem with the timestamps of his photographs as well. He allegedly photographed that same dead child being held up over a period of several hours by the same "rescue worker" that appears in many of the photos. The photos in all possibility appear staged. For news photographers that's a cardinal sin, or "haram" in this case. But previously Reuters denied all such allegations.
William Gibson's "Idoru" had me expecting virtual celebrities to come out of Japan first. On the other hand nobody more than Mel Gibson could probably use a virtual Mel Gibson right now. A virtual Mel that can only drink whatever comes out of the Internet tubes and not his pub's taps.
In my old mu* I've seen a male character rp'd by a woman marry a female character rp'd by a man. Neither of them were aware of the RL gender situation until their IC and RL relationships were both serious. Let's see a constitutional amendment attempt to ban that.
As a rule of thumb, if a person says they're female and acts normal, they probably are. If, on the other hand, they act sickeningly cute and helpful and otherwise girly, it's typically a safe bet that you're dealing with one or more of the following: a man, a pre-teen girl, or a really fat/ugly girl who acts cute on the internet to get the attention she so desperately needs.
No wonder you can find real, normal females in internet games today. MMORPGs have turned into my ex's soap operas. If the Queen has balls, it's because she's probably a guy, in WOW at least.
By these figures, the USA is not so bad considering the ethnic makeup of America is much more varied than the Netherlands and England. Country IQ estimate Hong Kong 107 South Korea 106 Germany 102 Italy 102 Netherlands 102 UK 100 Denmark 98 France 98 Norway 98 USA 98 Czech Republic 97 Finland 97 Israel 94 Turkey 90 Mexico 87 Lebanon 86 Iran 84 Nepal 78 Qatar 78 Jamaica 72 South Africa 72 Nigeria 67 Equ. Guinea 59 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_the_Wealth_of_ Nations#National_IQ_estimates
I started playing a MUD because all my friends did it and I just wanted to fit in. I spent thousands of hours over the next 6 or 7 years grinding through this MUD that lacks a defined endgame. The developers make sure there are always more skills to master or abilities to fine-tune. The actual end for me finally came when my gameplay experience was ruined by a jealous and bitter rival player that became an administrator. I was lucky, many players never truly kick it, they kinda burn out from trying to stay on top and then they enter a pitiful cycle of attempts to regain their past glory. It really does keep people locked away from new experiences.
In the two or three years since I quit cold turkey I put on about 20-25 PC games without even realizing it. Whenever I get even remotely curious about a MMO or a friend tries to get me to just try his guild for a good time I stop myself and admit there is a higher power and a monthly subscription fee. So instead of getting lost in the dark dungeon of leveling I pick up a single player/lite multi-player game that lacks online ranking and locked items. I'm also looking into picking up a console and bunch of controllers to bring back the social aspects of gaming with friends and family in the living room that my own friends and I seem to have lost.
-6 years clean
I think he meant Deep Space Mine, since the show was a bomb.
I kid, seriously! Loved the story arcs.
Everybody knows Data in Star Trek is corruptible and easily influenced. Remember when Lore/Alien of the week/etc reprogramed him?
I could starve if my food gets back ordered. Especially if I finished up that 64 pack of Pringles I got last time.
Pastry, pasty, some Irish comic with a thick brogue accent, it's too obscure even for me...
"So, if I'm a terrorist ... and I look like I'm a terrorist ... I just find a white girl-friend who is the opposite of your "profile" and I pack her carry-on baggage with my weapons. Without her knowledge."
/rimshot
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That's already been done. It's why profiling doesn't work. And I'm not middle eastern, I'm of pasty Irish ancestry. I could pass as a danish.
"In 1986, Nezar Hindawi, a Jordanian national then residing in Britain, told his pregnant Irish girlfriend to fly to Israel from London and that he would meet her there via Jordan. Before she boarded the El Al jumbo jet in London, it was discovered by airport security that the false bottom of her hand luggage concealed a bomb powerful enough to blow the jumbo jet out of the sky. She told authorities that the hand luggage was a gift from her fiancé Nezar Hindawi and that she could not believe that he would knowingly endanger her or his own unborn child. When Hindawi was arrested he revealed that he was a paid agent for Syria and claimed that he had been specifically instructed by Syria to romance and then impregnate a naive woman who could be utilized as a completely unwitting human bomb and thereby more likely avoid detection by airport security (who then operated according to standardized terrorist profiles). So convincing was the evidence of Syria's hand behind this attempt to obliterate a civilian passenger plane that Britain suspended diplomatic relations with Syria for a number of years thereafter."
More: http://www.bearpit.net/lofiversion/index.php/t272
"Finally, someone is going to have to refil and empty _that_ beast."
When was the last time one had to drain or fill his or her washing machine or dishwasher by hand? It's connected to the home plumbing system. I'd expect iRobot to work within this existing home infrastructure. Such major appliances can be found for around $400, same price as the Scooba. People are comfortable with having such monstrous appliances in their home.
It'd hardly be as complicated as an in-flight refuling from a tanker to a fighter jet.
Is it difficult to refill the cleaning solution or empty the dirty water? It would be neat for iRobot to make a home base unit which automates that process. A small service station that empties and refills the appropriate tanks as well as recharging the Scooba. The goal should be to have it as automated as possible.
The government is expanding internet access in an attempt to maintain Pakistan's top rank amongst nations that search Google for "sex".
http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex&ctab=1&sa=N
First we hear about our beloved, albeit cloned bananas at risk of going extinct, now Apples and Windows lemons are in danger... it's all over folks. Get out your tin foil and wrap your fruit up tight.
Except $200 in the mid 1980s when Nintendo launched around the world is more like $350(?) or so in today's money.
And that pattern of inflation follows with the later consoles.
Then again a little bird Sony told me that the Nintendo is using hardware from 1985 for the Wii.
"Oh yes I loved being in new york when the trains werent running. 60K a year retire at 55 and they wanted to retire at 50. No one owes you a job or a life you have to make your own."
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Yeah, because 60k in NY is such a fortune. The city needs to keep its working class and not allow the state operated MTA to drive them away, no pun intended.
Can't have a big apple that has a super rich and shiny skin, a poverty stricken core, and no middle...
In NYC it was just reported how non-union employers are still hiring thugs from the ghetto to come up to picket lines and threaten strikers with guns. But this is 2006, corporate doesn't need professional strike breakers anymore when they have all of you non-union employees willing to do the dirty work for them. http://villagevoice.com/news/0619,robbins,73148,5
It's unbelievable how non-union employees try to drag union workers down to their disposebable level. Keep sacrificing yourself and your family to the major shareholders instead of trying to achieve the same shared successes that union workers won.
Why should I be shocked that a spy agency knows who I called?
Anyone can go on the internet and within a few hours and some heavy change get the phone records of anybody else.
Even spy and law enforcement agencies were using these shady services.
And how does that work? Expensive backbone wiretaps? Nope, it's just a bit of social engineering done by the PI. Or its an inside man with a entry level customer service job that has access to these phone records. on demand It all comes down to phone company security being pathetically weak.
True, with good connectivity. But the origami teaser showed peopled not tied down to any hotspots. They were driving around, in stairwells, airplanes, the beach.... Right now that type of connectivity is not available in enough places for a tempting price. For that type of money one could have a serf lug around a desktop replacement laptop and let you use his back as a desktop...
I don't know. I'm not too excited about this or the Origami.
Handheld systems still fail to meet the most basic expectations or needs of the power PC user and that's the market these devices need to capture first.
I've owned PDAs for years and quite fond of them despite everything bad for some important reasons. One, they are really tiny, pocket sized tiny. Two, using a PDA makes me feel as if I'm in a small "lilliputian" world. That's where all the applications and features are specially made for us tiny PPC people and our tiny universe's different set of physics and natural laws.
On the other hand, what about carrying around a woefully underpowered handheld "desktop" with a full installion of the same XP or Linux distro I have on my desktop? Well that just makes me feel like a eunch. Everytime I want to use a cool, maybe resource hungry app that I have on my desktop I'll be reminded how I'm castrated by these "lite" system specs. Forever forced to live in the real world but forever knowing I'm missing out.
Me "Punch buggy blue!"
gf "Oww! Where? I don't see it..."
me "Too slow!"