Watching a senior citizen convert their entire social security check into nickels, then put it all in a slot machine is gut-wrenchingly depressing... I think I'd stick to turning kids into cold blooded killers by developing traditional video games.
I need claim that MS stole my IP and put it in windows and then spam spam spam asking for my $700. If even a fraction of a fraction of a percent gave me money, i'd me a millionare
yeah, I thought about that... but 9/11 is always nine-eleven, whereas for the emergency phone number I've always heard nine-one-one.
I wonder if perhaps it was done intentionally to get us to remember the attacks at least once a year. People say "remeber Pearl Harbor" or "remember the Alamo", but when the event is named by it's date... well, at least it's easy to remember when it happened!
When I see stories like this I wonder how many more FPS games people will be willing to buy...... then I realize that they're still making james bond movies
I remember years ago there being talk of the x86 never being able to keep up because it would just get hotter and bigger.... but now they're over 3ghz... was that all just hooey, or will there be a point where the x86 is dead and the RISC processors that replace them just have a CISC compatibility later?
Post 9/11* showed me something I hadn't realized before: the power of the executive branch. I never really knew that the administation could do whatever they wanted unless congress actively stopped them from doing it.
* why is it called 9/11 (September 11th or the even more annoying "nine-eleven") instead of WTC, or 2001 hijackings, or something else. We don't call Pearl Harbor 12/7. Sorry for the rant, just becoming a pet peeve of mine.
I agree totally that the judges, in many regards, put politics ahead of the law. Term limits would be a good idea, but how? a set number of years? one goes every presidental term? I think the idea the founding fathers had (not that i'd presume to speak for them) was to have a branch of government that would be more conservative (in the tradional sense... administrations and congresses come and go relatively rapidly, but the court is more steady). As a result, a short term swing in either ideological direction doesn't overwhelm the entire government.
As numerous replys to my original post indicated, I'm pointing out that linux still has a ways to go until getting a big contract is no big deal. flamebait? how? I long for the day where another big linux win is normal and thus not newsworthy
as far as the court, how long of an appointment should it be? I mean, if the executive branch can fill in the court when elected that pretty much destroys the whole idea of checks and balances.
Back when I played (years ago), we had the rulebooks, and used them as a guide, but didn't actually stick to most of the rules. we found that when we did most of the time was spent looking stuff up and rolling a lot of dice. Our game ended up being mostly a storytelling game, and pretty much the only rules we used were for combat.
There was still a lot of min/maxing and THAC0 manipulation going on... i can't imagine how bad it would have been if we were actually following the rules!
okay, machine guns are illegal. replace machine guns with semi automatic weapons, or even handguns, or rifles... my point remains the same. smoke does real damage to people, and the cost of health care is distributed to everyone. (higher insurance premiums, workers comp clains, medicare, etc)
why aren't cigs illegal? well, if you think drug policy is good thing, they *should* be illegal, but fat chance the southern tobacco growing states and the tobacco lobby are going to let that happen. if you think drug policy is bad thing, people should be able to do whatever they want to their bodies, and thus cigs (and booze, and pot, etc) should be legal.... however, when you smoke in a public place you are harming others. There are plenty of things you can do legally in the privacy of your own home that aren't legal to do in public.
NYC is now completely non-smoking in all public places. Why? Public health is bull sh*&. Go somewhere else if you think it is unhealthy. You swim in a clean pool / river / lake instead of a polluted one for the same reason.
Public health is bullsh*&? (btw, "bullsh*&"? please tell me that was an intended censorship joke) Best I can tell, most of the public is pretty concerned with their health. By your logic we shouldn't have laws banning spaying machine gun fire in public - Go somewhere else if you think the bullets are dangerous
18 to vote. 18 to join the military. 21 to buy or consume alcohol legally in the USA. Old analogy, I know. But it still works.
Actually, that's up to the states, but a drinking age < 21 means no federal highway money. When the drinking age was 18, the 18 year old HS seniors would pass alcohol on to the 15 year old freshmen. Now the 21 year old college students pass alcohol on to the 18 year old college freshmen. It's not like it's hard to get beer when you're 18. But yes, the law is stupid. One answer would be to raise the age for voting, military, legal contracts, etc to 21... but I have better idea:
Make the drinking age 21 or High School graduation. Helps the problem of younger kids drinking, and gives the dropouts a reason to reconsider.
I'm a huge Final Fantasy nut, and I have both a GameCube and a PS2, but I'm sure I don't have the time to play both games simultaneously, and I bet there's a lot of people who fall into this same category. Buy one, play it. Then buy the other; it will probably drop in price after a while anyway.
I've had a lot of classes where the entire lecture was a big waste of my time, but the prof would pretty much FORCE you to attend by asking nitpicky test questions about specific examples given in class. It's nice to know you aren't missing anything, but it's also nice to not be bored off your ass the other 95% of the time
As a incredibly disorganized computer geek, the visor was a life saver. So long as I'd remember to check the calendar a few times a day (took awhile to get into that habit) I could see what was going on, as well as any todos that were about to come due (i'd use the to do list almost exclusively for assignments). The abilty to set alarms for appointments, brilliant! Granted, I'd have a half dozen or so alarms go off a day, but it sure beat string around the finger!
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If I boycotted every company that was evil, I'd never be able to buy ANYTHING
Watching a senior citizen convert their entire social security check into nickels, then put it all in a slot machine is gut-wrenchingly depressing... I think I'd stick to turning kids into cold blooded killers by developing traditional video games.
it's the big round one on the front of the case ...glad I could help
I need claim that MS stole my IP and put it in windows and then spam spam spam asking for my $700. If even a fraction of a fraction of a percent gave me money, i'd me a millionare
yeah, I thought about that... but 9/11 is always nine-eleven, whereas for the emergency phone number I've always heard nine-one-one.
I wonder if perhaps it was done intentionally to get us to remember the attacks at least once a year. People say "remeber Pearl Harbor" or "remember the Alamo", but when the event is named by it's date... well, at least it's easy to remember when it happened!
When I see stories like this I wonder how many more FPS games people will be willing to buy... ... then I realize that they're still making james bond movies
I remember years ago there being talk of the x86 never being able to keep up because it would just get hotter and bigger.... but now they're over 3ghz... was that all just hooey, or will there be a point where the x86 is dead and the RISC processors that replace them just have a CISC compatibility later?
um.... the PDP-11 was an x86?
Post 9/11* showed me something I hadn't realized before: the power of the executive branch. I never really knew that the administation could do whatever they wanted unless congress actively stopped them from doing it.
* why is it called 9/11 (September 11th or the even more annoying "nine-eleven") instead of WTC, or 2001 hijackings, or something else. We don't call Pearl Harbor 12/7. Sorry for the rant, just becoming a pet peeve of mine.
I agree totally that the judges, in many regards, put politics ahead of the law. Term limits would be a good idea, but how? a set number of years? one goes every presidental term? I think the idea the founding fathers had (not that i'd presume to speak for them) was to have a branch of government that would be more conservative (in the tradional sense... administrations and congresses come and go relatively rapidly, but the court is more steady). As a result, a short term swing in either ideological direction doesn't overwhelm the entire government.
hey, dumbass moderators!
As numerous replys to my original post indicated, I'm pointing out that linux still has a ways to go until getting a big contract is no big deal. flamebait? how? I long for the day where another big linux win is normal and thus not newsworthy
sheesh
Company/Government X is using linux to do Y! woot!
It would be much nicer if it was news everytime microsoft landed a big contract.
um, so what sides of the fence are we on?
as far as the court, how long of an appointment should it be? I mean, if the executive branch can fill in the court when elected that pretty much destroys the whole idea of checks and balances.
Back when I played (years ago), we had the rulebooks, and used them as a guide, but didn't actually stick to most of the rules. we found that when we did most of the time was spent looking stuff up and rolling a lot of dice. Our game ended up being mostly a storytelling game, and pretty much the only rules we used were for combat.
There was still a lot of min/maxing and THAC0 manipulation going on... i can't imagine how bad it would have been if we were actually following the rules!
why aren't cigs illegal? well, if you think drug policy is good thing, they *should* be illegal, but fat chance the southern tobacco growing states and the tobacco lobby are going to let that happen. if you think drug policy is bad thing, people should be able to do whatever they want to their bodies, and thus cigs (and booze, and pot, etc) should be legal.... however, when you smoke in a public place you are harming others. There are plenty of things you can do legally in the privacy of your own home that aren't legal to do in public.
Please have your ID or Highschool Equivalency Certificate ready before purchasing!
My plan entails the kids going to the dmv and getting an endorsement on their DL saying they are legal for alcohol consumption
Public health is bullsh*&? (btw, "bullsh*&"? please tell me that was an intended censorship joke) Best I can tell, most of the public is pretty concerned with their health. By your logic we shouldn't have laws banning spaying machine gun fire in public - Go somewhere else if you think the bullets are dangerous
18 to vote. 18 to join the military. 21 to buy or consume alcohol legally in the USA. Old analogy, I know. But it still works.
Actually, that's up to the states, but a drinking age < 21 means no federal highway money. When the drinking age was 18, the 18 year old HS seniors would pass alcohol on to the 15 year old freshmen. Now the 21 year old college students pass alcohol on to the 18 year old college freshmen. It's not like it's hard to get beer when you're 18. But yes, the law is stupid. One answer would be to raise the age for voting, military, legal contracts, etc to 21... but I have better idea:
Make the drinking age 21 or High School graduation. Helps the problem of younger kids drinking, and gives the dropouts a reason to reconsider.
I'm a huge Final Fantasy nut, and I have both a GameCube and a PS2, but I'm sure I don't have the time to play both games simultaneously, and I bet there's a lot of people who fall into this same category.
Buy one, play it. Then buy the other; it will probably drop in price after a while anyway.
sheesh.
I remember using Adobe PageMaker way back... is inDesign just its new name?
okay, i have photoshop. now which PAGE LAYOUT PROGRAM should I get with my remaining $290.95?
People make assumptions about me because my eyes are constantly blood-shot
um, yeah... it's just monitor strain
i gotta remember that
I've had a lot of classes where the entire lecture was a big waste of my time, but the prof would pretty much FORCE you to attend by asking nitpicky test questions about specific examples given in class. It's nice to know you aren't missing anything, but it's also nice to not be bored off your ass the other 95% of the time
well, they sell everying else at 500% retail, and I don't see why inkjet cartridges would be an exception
As a incredibly disorganized computer geek, the visor was a life saver. So long as I'd remember to check the calendar a few times a day (took awhile to get into that habit) I could see what was going on, as well as any todos that were about to come due (i'd use the to do list almost exclusively for assignments). The abilty to set alarms for appointments, brilliant! Granted, I'd have a half dozen or so alarms go off a day, but it sure beat string around the finger!
To think you solved something like that, and to be ready to publish, after all that hard work.... then...... oops. guess that doesns't work
man. i feel sorry for those guys