We provide a service people apparently want and consented to. It's removing us that's the violation." And, by the letter of the law, they're right. People running the software that removed them are exercising their rights and gave consent to the software doing the removal.
Or would you like to argue that an EULA stating "You may never remove this software from your system" should be legally binding?
Pushups I can and do do. Pullups I haven't tried for a couple of decades. Lets just say that I'm sceptical I'd manage even one, and I haven't anywhere in my home to try and find out.
I am out of shape. Then again, I shoot competitive archery - much arm and shoulder muscle use there.
It's just a different sort of use, and doesn't have the whiplash effect that many of the Wii controller movements have.
You may well be right about the Wii. I've had an interesting experience mentioning it to people I know - a lot of the non-IT people have heard of it, have heard it's good fun or played on it and enjoyed it, and want to play more. That surprised me - I hadn't expected such widespread recognition.
The games I have on it are mixed. Sports and Play are puff pieces - a few minutes fun tops, unless you're multiplayer in which case a fair bit more. Madden is pretty involved, and the full 'Hall of Fame' career I just kicked off could take months. I may get bored of the game before that, but it's still classic console fodder. Zelda I haven't started yet but I'm expecting a solid week's gameplay from it.
Then again, the Wii is to give me exercise - doing the 15 challenges in Wii Sports followed by the daily fitness test is 45 minutes of arm-waving exercise I wouldn't normally get. Add in the control systems around Madden and Zelda and after a week of Wii ownership I have a sore arm:)
For '18 hours without a break' gaming I have the PC. Consoles still can't compete with Supreme Commander, WoW, etc..
So I'm happy with the Wii, its gameplay is very different, and if they can release games that give good gameplay then the graphics just wont matter. Which is how it should be.
(Incidentally, Madden on the Wii is graphically superb. I don't know the fill-rates, I don't know the polygon count, I don't know how it compares to other platforms. I do know it looks just fine)
In the UK, usually, they'll both get a telling off and the daughter's parents will ground her and the boy's parents will congratulate him.
There has been an instance where the parents of the girl demanded that the boy be prosecuted for statutory rape. I was continually amazed that his parents didn't demand the same of her. Can't remember how that one ended.
Anybody within a year or two in age tends to get away with it; if it's someone that's 14 on someone that's 9 (it did happen a while back) that's considered pretty clearly a rape.
Ah, you missed out on BWL, AQ40, Naxxramas and all of the TBC stuff then.
The bosses got far more interesting in the later patches, and check out the worldwide progress of the top guilds in TBC compared to the time it's been out - while the levelling continues to be quick, easy and fun, the end-game content very definitely challenges hard.
To the hardcore MMOG player WoW instances are easy. But only if they're in a guild with similar players.
Many of the boss fights in instances are technical in nature, requiring people to pay attention and play well. Finding 39 other people capable of that was very hard. Finding 24 other people now is also hard, especially since guilds are sized around 40 player raids and the less capable guild members must also be given the chance to join in.
But WoW does still hold some challenges for the top players. Try Heroic instances with a PUG. Try Heroic instances as a hunter. Lets face it, hunters are easy-mode for 70 levels. Get into heroic 5 man instances as one, and you'll be using 20-30 abilities in a single fight. That's not easy mode. That needs in-depth knowledge of the class, great reactions, a good link and good teammates.
Maybe MMORPGs aren't for you any more. But don't dismiss WoW unless you've completed Mount Hyjal in the Caverns of Time. Because that's not easy.
No. The stuff I grew up on is low-grade cheap chocolate. Not as low grade or cheap as off-the-shelf candy in the US, but mass-market anyway.
I was (am) addicted to the stuff. Eating between a kilo a week and a kilo a day. So I stopped. No chocolate for four years.
Ironically it was in America that I broke my fast. By accident, by eating a Mole sauce on a taco at Trudy's in Austin. (Best tex-mex on the planet). I said how great that food was, the guy with me told me the ingredient list - including chocolate.
Since then I'm back on the chocolate. Far far lower volumes, but similar cash outlay. I almost entirely only eat high quality chocolate. Doesn't necessarily mean a high cocoa content (but the 70-80% stuff can be beautiful) but does mean you have to look for it, and you have to pay for it.
There is much good chocolate in this world, and it's not available on the racks by the checkout.
to be fair to the Sunday Herald, it's quite possible that they've been asked specifically not to name anybody against whom an ongoing investigation is in progress.
I'm sure the name will come out in the future. It may even be released by the minister in question, as part of a Government statement on the issue.
If anything it's about bloody time the media gave a little more privacy to those accused but not convicted of various crimes. Personally I loathe the anonymity given to people that make accusations of rape, child molestation, etc, and not to the accused. Give the anonymity to both, and reveal a name only after a conviction or police caution (which requires an admission of guilt).
Not to mention Person A shooting at Person B (the killer) and hitting Person C by accident, causing Person's D and E to open fire at Person A, hitting Persons F, G and H.
Now it's a mass shootout, and Person B is chuckling as he chains the doors shut and carries on with his original mission.
Yotal prevention isn't necessarily required. Raising the barrier to achieving high body count is often all that's needed.
Researching bombs, making them, testing them, positioning them for adequate effect are very much more difficult than grabbing firearms out of the cabinet and stepping outside.
Bombs tend to be less effective too. Sure, in Iraq they're getting pretty expert, but even there not many individual bombs achieve the same body count that's happened here. Most amateur stuff kills far fewer.
Trying to disarm America though - that would be quite an undertaking. I'd want to watch that one from a safe distance..
Ah, petty name-calling. And I'm the one modded 'Flamebait'?
What, you expect sympathy for dead americans? I lost all my fucking sympathy for your fucking country when American funded bombs started killing the people around me and damaged my fucking school.
Give me a button marked "Kill all Americans" and I'll personally ring each of the six I actually give a damn about to apologise in advance for pushing it. That's the only delay you'll get.
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Except I have the price increase and not the speed increase, and still have the danger of throttling.
half a minute? have you seen the average 13yo on a mobile phone?
they're at anything up to 200wpm and the texts can be 2-10 words long.
(wpm count made up.)
Or would you like to argue that an EULA stating "You may never remove this software from your system" should be legally binding?
Pushups I can and do do. Pullups I haven't tried for a couple of decades. Lets just say that I'm sceptical I'd manage even one, and I haven't anywhere in my home to try and find out.
I am out of shape. Then again, I shoot competitive archery - much arm and shoulder muscle use there.
It's just a different sort of use, and doesn't have the whiplash effect that many of the Wii controller movements have.
You may well be right about the Wii. I've had an interesting experience mentioning it to people I know - a lot of the non-IT people have heard of it, have heard it's good fun or played on it and enjoyed it, and want to play more. That surprised me - I hadn't expected such widespread recognition.
The games I have on it are mixed. Sports and Play are puff pieces - a few minutes fun tops, unless you're multiplayer in which case a fair bit more. Madden is pretty involved, and the full 'Hall of Fame' career I just kicked off could take months. I may get bored of the game before that, but it's still classic console fodder. Zelda I haven't started yet but I'm expecting a solid week's gameplay from it.
Then again, the Wii is to give me exercise - doing the 15 challenges in Wii Sports followed by the daily fitness test is 45 minutes of arm-waving exercise I wouldn't normally get. Add in the control systems around Madden and Zelda and after a week of Wii ownership I have a sore arm
For '18 hours without a break' gaming I have the PC. Consoles still can't compete with Supreme Commander, WoW, etc..
So I'm happy with the Wii, its gameplay is very different, and if they can release games that give good gameplay then the graphics just wont matter. Which is how it should be.
(Incidentally, Madden on the Wii is graphically superb. I don't know the fill-rates, I don't know the polygon count, I don't know how it compares to other platforms. I do know it looks just fine)
Oblivion is indeed very pretty - shame they forgot about the gameplay.
Gameplay is king. Graphics are fantastic, and can aid gameplay, but come second in importance.
See also : Angband/Nethack.
In the UK, usually, they'll both get a telling off and the daughter's parents will ground her and the boy's parents will congratulate him.
There has been an instance where the parents of the girl demanded that the boy be prosecuted for statutory rape. I was continually amazed that his parents didn't demand the same of her. Can't remember how that one ended.
Anybody within a year or two in age tends to get away with it; if it's someone that's 14 on someone that's 9 (it did happen a while back) that's considered pretty clearly a rape.
People have been manually trying to recreate these files for years. Automation is the obvious next step, albeit not necessarily a simple one.
One use for them is trying to track down people that 'disappeared'.
The book Stasiland which mentions these efforts is superb, well worth reading.
Ah, you missed out on BWL, AQ40, Naxxramas and all of the TBC stuff then.
The bosses got far more interesting in the later patches, and check out the worldwide progress of the top guilds in TBC compared to the time it's been out - while the levelling continues to be quick, easy and fun, the end-game content very definitely challenges hard.
You do need to avoid PUGs still though
To the hardcore MMOG player WoW instances are easy. But only if they're in a guild with similar players.
Many of the boss fights in instances are technical in nature, requiring people to pay attention and play well. Finding 39 other people capable of that was very hard. Finding 24 other people now is also hard, especially since guilds are sized around 40 player raids and the less capable guild members must also be given the chance to join in.
But WoW does still hold some challenges for the top players. Try Heroic instances with a PUG. Try Heroic instances as a hunter. Lets face it, hunters are easy-mode for 70 levels. Get into heroic 5 man instances as one, and you'll be using 20-30 abilities in a single fight. That's not easy mode. That needs in-depth knowledge of the class, great reactions, a good link and good teammates.
Maybe MMORPGs aren't for you any more. But don't dismiss WoW unless you've completed Mount Hyjal in the Caverns of Time. Because that's not easy.
Surely RL rape can also be motivated by raw sexual frustration/desire.
This is particularly likely in the case of "date rape".
You do realise that in the UK voting is not secret?
They can tie down a specific ballot to a specific voter. The information isn't publicly accessible, but it is there.
No. The stuff I grew up on is low-grade cheap chocolate. Not as low grade or cheap as off-the-shelf candy in the US, but mass-market anyway.
I was (am) addicted to the stuff. Eating between a kilo a week and a kilo a day. So I stopped. No chocolate for four years.
Ironically it was in America that I broke my fast. By accident, by eating a Mole sauce on a taco at Trudy's in Austin. (Best tex-mex on the planet). I said how great that food was, the guy with me told me the ingredient list - including chocolate.
Since then I'm back on the chocolate. Far far lower volumes, but similar cash outlay. I almost entirely only eat high quality chocolate. Doesn't necessarily mean a high cocoa content (but the 70-80% stuff can be beautiful) but does mean you have to look for it, and you have to pay for it.
There is much good chocolate in this world, and it's not available on the racks by the checkout.
The article is primarily about two Americans. One of them trained, worked with, socialised with and employed a team of Iraqis.
How exactly is he shamelessly profiteering?
Thing is, market rate for my skillset is $1200-$1500/day contract in the middle of London right now.
You don't be going to Iraq for the money.
Your post is truly heroic in its stupidity.
Of course it's possible. It's merely a radio transmitter. People have been building those for over a century.
Why not experiment yourself and devise your own schematics?
That's no way to talk about the source to this wonderful site!
(which is, apart from a single wikipedia entry, the only non-Guns N Roses topic on the first page of Google's results)
to be fair to the Sunday Herald, it's quite possible that they've been asked specifically not to name anybody against whom an ongoing investigation is in progress.
I'm sure the name will come out in the future. It may even be released by the minister in question, as part of a Government statement on the issue.
If anything it's about bloody time the media gave a little more privacy to those accused but not convicted of various crimes. Personally I loathe the anonymity given to people that make accusations of rape, child molestation, etc, and not to the accused. Give the anonymity to both, and reveal a name only after a conviction or police caution (which requires an admission of guilt).
Not to mention Person A shooting at Person B (the killer) and hitting Person C by accident, causing Person's D and E to open fire at Person A, hitting Persons F, G and H.
Now it's a mass shootout, and Person B is chuckling as he chains the doors shut and carries on with his original mission.
Yotal prevention isn't necessarily required. Raising the barrier to achieving high body count is often all that's needed.
Researching bombs, making them, testing them, positioning them for adequate effect are very much more difficult than grabbing firearms out of the cabinet and stepping outside.
Bombs tend to be less effective too. Sure, in Iraq they're getting pretty expert, but even there not many individual bombs achieve the same body count that's happened here. Most amateur stuff kills far fewer.
Trying to disarm America though - that would be quite an undertaking. I'd want to watch that one from a safe distance..
Ah, petty name-calling. And I'm the one modded 'Flamebait'?
What, you expect sympathy for dead americans? I lost all my fucking sympathy for your fucking country when American funded bombs started killing the people around me and damaged my fucking school.
Give me a button marked "Kill all Americans" and I'll personally ring each of the six I actually give a damn about to apologise in advance for pushing it. That's the only delay you'll get.
To the people dying they are.
Simple fact : If the individual responsible had not had access to firearms, he would not have shot anybody.