I'd argue that slavery isn't even a step up from death. Theoretically, one can escape from slavery, or can even choose death over slavery. I'm not sure that one has similar options in death.
DMCA makes it illegal to hack copy protection IIRC, DMCA only makes it illegal to distribute hacking utils for copy protection. Hack all you want. Download hacks all you want. Just no distributing.
Slow Down Cowboy!
Slashdot requires you to wait between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment.
It's been 4 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment Really? Maybe people can think of things to say more than once every five minutes. Silly lameness filter.
so you get a taller vehicle. That's fine, except now everyone else who could see just find before can't see over you. So they also need higher vehicles. And then you can't see over them, so you need a yet taller vehicle Until all vehicles are tall enough that some people start driving motorized street luge sleds.
Cyclists should be riding on the sidewalks. The relative momentums of bike riders and pedestrians are much closer than bike riders and multi-ton vehicles. The traffic laws for bicycles seems to hearken back to the days when an automobile's average speed was 15mph.
[The Internet is] becoming our map and our clock, our printing press and our typewriter, our calculator and our telephone, and our radio and TV. No, my calculator is my telephone, before that, it was my solar calculator, before that, it was my calculator-watch, before that, it was my battery calculator (Who really googles (424+26)/78 to get the answer?).
My telephone is my cell phone. Before that, it was nothing (no phone), before _that_, it was my land-line.
I love internet maps, because they do so much, but they don't beat my paper map when I'm stuck in the middle of nowhere.
The internet isn't my clock, my internal clock works pretty well. If I have to know the exact time, then I suppose the internet is my clock... sort of: I check my cell phone which is updated by the cell network, which is updated by some atomic clock over the internet (presumably), and I like that set up. It means I'm never more than a few milliseconds off what my servers think the time is.
Radio and TV? No, the Internet is no where close to being our Radio and TV. I think nothing will be like "our Radio and TV" ever again. It used to be everyone had a similar experience with local radio and TV, now people get to choose what they want when they want. If people switch to Internet viewing, it will be more like buying movies from the brick and mortar.
I suppose it is replacing our press and typewriter, but how does that make us dumber?
Is the concern overblown or are we becoming the Web that we created? Overblown. I still remember as much as I used to, and now I have a way to find more information about things. Google expands the limits of our potential so that we _think_ we're dumber because we finally see a portion of the vastness of human knowledge and we realize we don't know jack in comparison. Was it Socrates or Plato that said something about that? Hold on, let me check Wikipedia...
He's a natural-born citizen over the age of 35. Does anything more really matter? Yes, he has to have been a resident of the U.S. for fourteen years too. (Check on that too)
Also, he hasn't been elected to the office of President twice, nor has he held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President.
I find that very likely; if not that, then at least no multiple sales to staff. Nintendo as a brand loses when its customers lose _hope_ in getting a console.
the white space is where all of the unnecessary extraneous artwork was before The artwork in previous editions was a great signpost for flipping to rules in a hurry. Absolutely need a morale chart in AD&D 2nd edition? Look for the full-page picture of a cleric turning some undead in a graveyard. Sure, you can always fudge morale, but sometimes when the players are _trying_ to scare the enemy, you want to get into the dirty details.
the real issue - Mac and Linux is a tiny market for games. I thought the real issue was whether Mac and Linux were heavily used at home by tabletop role playing gamers, not computer gamers? Computer game =/= RPG.
I would say that the young and generally better than averagely educated demographic that make up D&D players is going to have a much greater proportion of Linux and Mac users. Do you have any figures to back that up? Anecdotal; My old gaming group has been shifting to *nix based systems, even the Windows Sysadmin uses Linux at home. All it takes is one *nix lover in a group of geeks (and several years) to cause a tidal swell. The Windows guy and I are the only two IT guys in the group, so finding out the others were using ubuntu or MacOSX was surprising.
Also anecdotal: Amongst the *nix admins I know, at least 99% of them are tabletop RPGers to the point of buying plushy d20's for their offices. With Windows admins, the population of RPGers is about 50% (still respectable).
It's closer to hiring a doctor who used to do research for tobacco companies as the S.G. (Ballmer does have experience making sweeping technology decisions, even if they're bad), but I get where you're coming from.
Come to think of it, gun control and net neutrality have a lot in common, except that guns kill people while networks kill corporations. networks only kill Revision3
GP explained the causal relation. Allow me to analogize:
Back in the day, our ancestors had to hunt herds of cattle-like creatures with the knowledge that they could get gored or trampled. What did they do? Eventually, they bred the "fight" out of their prey, and domesticated them to the point that the cattle don't react when they hear or smell one of their own being slaughtered (they still spook a little at the sight). Some were even bred without the big horns. Now, whenever a human wants some steak, there's no danger, they just walk up, knife the cattle in the head and drag it to the BBQ pit.
To reiterate GP's point: Most people follow laws, some do not. Imagine a law against guns, and providing "amnesty" if you turn yours in to the local recycling plant. Those who follow laws will turn their guns in. Those who do not follow laws will keep their guns. The predators will no longer fear the prey.
Unrelated: in the U.S.A., the founding fathers didn't consider the criminals the predators, they considered all governments (not just King George) as the predators.
WTF? Why does your desktop have a wireless card? Because he has absolutely no idea what he is doing. Because no one could possibly want a desktop computer two rooms away from their DSL or cablemodem without cat-5 running all over the floor? And yes, I have a wireless NIC connected to one of my desktops in my apartment.
I like it; if I might offer a further suggestion, make the wiimote vibrate until the ghost-sword is back in position. If you've ever hit a full-tang sword (or an aluminum bat) against something metal, you'll know the feeling I'm talking about.
They could have easily fixed this; The enemy blocks, but Link's sword continues to the spot where the user dictated by the wiimote motion. In Die by the Sword, you had the same full range of motion, and it worked great!
A Buddhist or Jewish fundamentalist doesn't care if you're a part of their religion. A Wiccan fundamentalist doesn't care if you believe he or she can perform magic. It might be time to research the term fundamentalist. ie one who returns to the fundamentals.
A Buddhist fundamentalist doesn't care if you're a part of their religion. Check, Buddhism is almost totally inwardly focussed.
A Jewish fundamentalist doesn't care if you're a part of their religion unless it comes to one of the many points of law dealing with separation of the Hebrew people from the Gentiles. If the JF is not a Sadducee, then he doesn't think Gentiles get into Heaven. If he is, then he doesn't believe in Heaven.
I claim no knowledge of Wiccan beliefs... Skipping
A Christian or Muslim fundamentalist believes that human lives are expendable if extinguished in the name of God. They deserve neither respect nor even common courtesy. If not for their religion, they would be correctly labeled sociopaths and imprisoned for inciting and participating in violence and wars of aggression. A Christian fundamentalist believes that all (human) life is sacred, and that "turning the cheek" is the best option (violence in defense of others only). The fundamental (original) Christians purportedly went to their deaths without a fight. Medieval crazies believed all life to be expendable and used God's name to fool the unlearned.
A true Islamic fundamentalist doesn't think life is expendable either. An Islamic terrorist might, but they're not the same thing.
Republicans have been shoving their Christianity down everyones [throats] Which political party advocates higher taxes for larger government-run social programs (usually with genuine references to Christian charity) again?
Did you click on the "Next Page" link at the bottom of the page? The first page can't really be fathomed without reading the next three pages to form a full four-cornered web-timecube.
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Slow Down Cowboy! Slashdot requires you to wait between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment. It's been 4 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment Really? Maybe people can think of things to say more than once every five minutes. Silly lameness filter.
Cyclists should be riding on the sidewalks. The relative momentums of bike riders and pedestrians are much closer than bike riders and multi-ton vehicles. The traffic laws for bicycles seems to hearken back to the days when an automobile's average speed was 15mph.
My telephone is my cell phone. Before that, it was nothing (no phone), before _that_, it was my land-line.
I love internet maps, because they do so much, but they don't beat my paper map when I'm stuck in the middle of nowhere.
The internet isn't my clock, my internal clock works pretty well. If I have to know the exact time, then I suppose the internet is my clock... sort of: I check my cell phone which is updated by the cell network, which is updated by some atomic clock over the internet (presumably), and I like that set up. It means I'm never more than a few milliseconds off what my servers think the time is.
Radio and TV? No, the Internet is no where close to being our Radio and TV. I think nothing will be like "our Radio and TV" ever again. It used to be everyone had a similar experience with local radio and TV, now people get to choose what they want when they want. If people switch to Internet viewing, it will be more like buying movies from the brick and mortar.
I suppose it is replacing our press and typewriter, but how does that make us dumber?
Is the concern overblown or are we becoming the Web that we created? Overblown. I still remember as much as I used to, and now I have a way to find more information about things. Google expands the limits of our potential so that we _think_ we're dumber because we finally see a portion of the vastness of human knowledge and we realize we don't know jack in comparison. Was it Socrates or Plato that said something about that? Hold on, let me check Wikipedia...
Also, he hasn't been elected to the office of President twice, nor has he held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President.
I find that very likely; if not that, then at least no multiple sales to staff. Nintendo as a brand loses when its customers lose _hope_ in getting a console.
Joy!
Also anecdotal: Amongst the *nix admins I know, at least 99% of them are tabletop RPGers to the point of buying plushy d20's for their offices. With Windows admins, the population of RPGers is about 50% (still respectable).
Don't worry, the plot was obvious to anyone paying attention.
Don't forget SMB -1 and 0 (Donkey Kong and [non-super] Mario Brothers)
It's closer to hiring a doctor who used to do research for tobacco companies as the S.G. (Ballmer does have experience making sweeping technology decisions, even if they're bad), but I get where you're coming from.
GP explained the causal relation. Allow me to analogize:
Back in the day, our ancestors had to hunt herds of cattle-like creatures with the knowledge that they could get gored or trampled. What did they do? Eventually, they bred the "fight" out of their prey, and domesticated them to the point that the cattle don't react when they hear or smell one of their own being slaughtered (they still spook a little at the sight). Some were even bred without the big horns. Now, whenever a human wants some steak, there's no danger, they just walk up, knife the cattle in the head and drag it to the BBQ pit.
To reiterate GP's point: Most people follow laws, some do not. Imagine a law against guns, and providing "amnesty" if you turn yours in to the local recycling plant. Those who follow laws will turn their guns in. Those who do not follow laws will keep their guns. The predators will no longer fear the prey.
Unrelated: in the U.S.A., the founding fathers didn't consider the criminals the predators, they considered all governments (not just King George) as the predators.
Heck, LTSP can cost only $100 per client in total costs, hardware and software.
I like it; if I might offer a further suggestion, make the wiimote vibrate until the ghost-sword is back in position. If you've ever hit a full-tang sword (or an aluminum bat) against something metal, you'll know the feeling I'm talking about.
Okami makes good use with the painting, slashing, etc...
They could have easily fixed this; The enemy blocks, but Link's sword continues to the spot where the user dictated by the wiimote motion. In Die by the Sword, you had the same full range of motion, and it worked great!
A Buddhist fundamentalist doesn't care if you're a part of their religion. Check, Buddhism is almost totally inwardly focussed.
A Jewish fundamentalist doesn't care if you're a part of their religion unless it comes to one of the many points of law dealing with separation of the Hebrew people from the Gentiles. If the JF is not a Sadducee, then he doesn't think Gentiles get into Heaven. If he is, then he doesn't believe in Heaven.
I claim no knowledge of Wiccan beliefs... Skipping
A Christian or Muslim fundamentalist believes that human lives are expendable if extinguished in the name of God. They deserve neither respect nor even common courtesy. If not for their religion, they would be correctly labeled sociopaths and imprisoned for inciting and participating in violence and wars of aggression. A Christian fundamentalist believes that all (human) life is sacred, and that "turning the cheek" is the best option (violence in defense of others only). The fundamental (original) Christians purportedly went to their deaths without a fight. Medieval crazies believed all life to be expendable and used God's name to fool the unlearned.A true Islamic fundamentalist doesn't think life is expendable either. An Islamic terrorist might, but they're not the same thing.
I can see how POP3 relates to Exchange, but c'mon, Squirrelmail is quality.
Did you click on the "Next Page" link at the bottom of the page? The first page can't really be fathomed without reading the next three pages to form a full four-cornered web-timecube.
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