It's been a few years since I've been, but Hawai'i (Oahu, Kaneohe area) had TONS of video arcades when I was there. In fact, on the relatively small air force base that we were stationed on, there were at least five decently sized arcades. Granted, they were attached to other things, but at least two of the ATTACHED arcades in Hawai'i were larger than anything I've seen here in Memphis, Tennessee.
I imagine there's quite a great deal more overseas (China, Japan), but that's strictly a guess, as I've never ventured quite that far.
The local university has about the biggest selection of games around, and while I don't attend, I was up there with a friend of mine for the day once, and didn't lose once to any of the "hardcore" gamers stationed around it. I was quite pleased with myself, but after I realized that I'd just spent 8 hours in front of a stand up arcade on one quarter, and wasted the entire day away, I made a conscious decision not to go back. I've got real life responsibilities nowadays, and don't have the kinda time that sort of addiction requires.
If it gets in, then there's a flaw for it to fix. If it can't get in, then, while it may have other flaws, it doesn't whichever flaw allows your worm to infiltrate it.
Now, there's a decent debate as to whether or not you could send your worm back out after you've fixed all the flaws, because, in theory, if you've fixed all the flaws in the system, the system should then be smart enough to not allow this code to be arbitrarily executing itself.
Of course, it could fix a number of flaws, and set the last update to occur at the next reboot, ala a run_once entry (for example), then run shutdown -r 60, then send itself back out. After its rebooted, it shouldn't be able to propagate itself at all... or something.
Speaking as a father, if I were that concerned with my daughter's usage of the library's internet, I would be by her side while she used it, not expect the library to do my parenting for me.
Libertarians seem to think that money can do no wrong.
Based on what?
That much I actually agree with, in all senses.
Libertarians DO seem to think that money can do no wrong, and (being a libertarian), I agree with it. If you limit money to the point that it can have no impact in the government, then money can't do any wrong, without buying off the populace.
I appreciate the sentiment, but honestly, I don't consider anything wrong with being told I'm wrong, no matter how it's done. Of course, if I'm right, and I'm told that I'm wrong, I get all snotty about it, but in this case, either way I'm defenseless... * sniff *
Sorry, I was trying to put a lot of post in as few words as I could get away with, and it didn't occur to me that legalize and decriminalize were (basically) the same thing.
You are correct though, the lp wants to legalize all drugs, and focus on education for addicts as their means to the end. Again though, the green party feels similarly.
Perhaps it is those matters which interest me the most, but from where I stand, they maintain similar stances on many current issues, including gay rights, abortion, drug laws (lp is for decriminalization of marijuana, while gp is for legalizing it), the internet, the internet and the government, the internet and Microsoft, technology, standardized testing, schools and church (ie, ten commandments / prayer in the classrooms), commercialization in the classrooms, and many many other issues.
Granted, they disagree on quite a few things as well, and often disagree on how to accomplish the things that they do agree on, but ideologically, I find them similar (again, in my viewpoint). They both wish to have smaller governments and smaller governmental budgets, both want to focus on education, and spend more money there, as well as defederalize state education requirements, etc. Sure, they disagree on gun control, and things of that nature, but again, from where I stand, they don't appear all that different.
That's also why there are libertarians, who share many beliefs with the green party.
That said, if more people started voting independent, I'm still unsure as to whether or not that would be a good thing.
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For PHP-related information, php.net is easily the most comprehensive language resource I've ever seen. Frankly, if every language out there had such an easy to use/easily available language reference, we'd see as many real programmers coming up out of the woodwork as we have seen php programmers (not discounting the skill of PHP programmers, just that it is, predomanately, a "web-only" language.
I think that the effect isn't necessarily to get you to spend MORE money, but to spend the money that you're already spending on their products. Granted, they would LOVE it if an ad actually prompted you to go out and buy their product that second (which I've found to be most effective with things like pizza ads and the like), but for the most part, you'll watch an ad, and continue on.
What they want to happen is that, after having seen Kraft Mac and Cheese on the television, and just how deliciously scrumptious it looks, you'll stop buying Brand X Mac and Cheese, because it isn't as appealing.
Another affect is that they want their ads to linger in their heads, fooling you into wanting them. While you might not be hungry right after dinner while watching an ad for your nearby Burger King, if that ad were able to linger there until the next day, when you're taking your lunch hour, you might subconsiously head to burger king to quell the urge.
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I guess your mileage may very, but in my experience, as a LAN tech, ME was horrid, and much less stable than 98. Of course, this doesn't take into account whatever OEM software may have been installed, and its ME-compliance/optimization.
I don't know if it helps you any, but, as previously mentioned somewhere on here, you can get a $2000 federal tax break for owning a hybrid. After the tax break, she's only saving money on gas. Granted, it's akin to a mail-in-rebate sort of deal, but if she can afford the difference up front, but just doesn't want to pay it, it should even things out for her. If she can't afford the difference up front, then well, buy the EX, and wait for prices to drop.
Well, considering the WWF (wrestling) no longer goes by that acronym since they were wrested of it by the WWF (wildlife), I would have thought it pretty safe.
The WWF (wrestling) is now going by WWE (World Wrestling Enterprise or Entertainment, or something), until they can find some legal claim to take back their WWF acronym.
That said, I'm a contributor to the WWF (wildlife), so perhaps I'm biased.
Yeah. I think both kids died actually, but one of them might have lived.
She felt terrible for weeks, and couldn't go to work or even begin to crack a smile. The accident totalled her car completely (Honda Civic, in case anyone's wondering), despite its relatively new condition.
Naturally, her insurance went up immediately, despite her having been found innocent of any wrongdoing.
My apologies, I meant specifically Tennessee, but the law has been pretty much universal for every state that I've lived in (to my knowledge).
It probably doesn't apply in states like Hawaii, where there is a heavy tourist population, large amounts of sidewalk merchants, and no crosswalks (downtown Waikiki, to the best of my recollection).
And yes, I agree that it is basic morality, unless (as addressed in another post here) you clearly saw them, had time to react, and just didn't because they were jaywalking.
I don't know that you HAVE to try to avoid them, really, but I do guess you'd be charged with manslaughter if you didn't.
I'm not entirely clear on the subject, other than a friend of mine was sued by Johnny Cochran (yes THAT Johnny Cochran) for accidentally hitting two kids in the middle of the road.
They weren't in the crosswalk, and my friend couldn't see them because she was behind a U-Haul that swerved to avoid hitting the kids at the last second. Since she didn't have the view that the U-Haul did, the case was dismissed. For the record, she didn't try not to hit them, because she just didn't see them at all, and when she did, didn't have enough time to react even to apply the brakes.
That said, she was found innocent of manslaughter, and Johnny's civil suit was dismissed altogether.
I know that it's true in the United States. As long as you a) weren't speeding, b) didn't evade the scene of the crime, c) weren't under the influence of anything, d) weren't doing anything else considered wrong, then you didn't do anything wrong, really.
If someone walks out in front of your car in an area that you don't expect them to be (school zones, crosswalks, etc.), then you haven't committed a crime, and in my opinion, rightfully so.
I suppose you could be slapped with a "failure to maintain a proper lookout", but seriously, there are a ton of instances in which I might have hit a jaywalker that would literally not be my fault. I imagine the same applies.
I don't mean to be nitpickity here, and certainly don't mean to come off as that "other poster" you were conversing with... but a couple of things I don't agree with:
- You're referring to the necessity of cell phone features, and, while you're right, cell phones themselves aren't necessary, they certainly do make things more convenient.
- While we "got along without" cell phones for a great deal of time, we also did okay without many vaccines and medical treatments that we'd be likely lost without today.
Accustomization is something that everybody (except the Amish) pretty much succumbs to. The penetration of society with little trinkets like cell phones and pagers, while not at all necessary, certainly does make things easier, and does improve the quality of life in certain instances (think 911 calls or roadside assistance calls made from a cell phone).
That said, I'd very much like to send email from my (hypothetical) cell phone. (Hypothetical because I don't actually own a cell phone, but a two-way pager... company provided.:-\)
I was down in St. Louis the other day, at the Vans Warped Tour, and while I was getting sunburnt to a crisp, because I forgot sunscreen, I was emailing my wife, then 200+ miles away, asking her to have some sunburn remedies and treatments available for me when I got home, so as to soothe my pain.
Granted, that was by no means a necessity, but it was certainly a convenience. Another convenience was when the boyfriend (I assume) of the girl that passed out from heat exhaustion called for an ambulance to take her to the hospital to get rehydrated. I'm not saying she would have died, but in the 8 hours I spent at the UMB Pavilion in St. Louis, I didn't see a single pay phone (but I could be wrong, since I wasn't really looking... after all, I had my pager), and it was pretty damn handy to have medical assistance waiting for them by the time they got to the gates of the pavilion, etc.
Anyway, I've already rambled on, and I'm sure you see my point. I can't deny that cell phones and increases in technology are unnecessary, but you can't deny the conveniences they afford us. I'm sure there are plenty of people that will come up with a use for any feature offered, though I do agree that we could probably both do without the Hello Kitty screensavers.:-\
Agreed. If every language had the type of documentation found at php.net, programming wouldn't be nearly as daunting a task as people make it out to be.
As for my experience, the PHP manual taught me all the perl I know, in an indirect method.
(Note, I am by no means a great perl programmer, but I've not been able to accomplish any task thus far.)
Honestly, I'm considering it myself. With a highly technical background, I'm a shoe-in for tech IP law, except that I haven't any law background or schooling behind me yet.
That said, I have two friends who are in law because they wanted to change the world, and make it a better place. I'm sure the money doesn't hurt, but at least one of the friends in question is barely making a living. He pays the bills and feeds his kids, but he's driving around in an 86 Buick Century, and his wife in an 88 Toyota 4-door. He's not raking it in hand-over-fist, and while his wife hates him for it sometimes (that he can't just sell out every now and again), he can truly say that he hasn't ever done anything that he doesn't agree with (in law, he used to be military).
Agreed... further, it is not a lawyer's job or duty to "get his client off", rather, to provide that client the best possible defense.
The best possible defense in some cases may get the client off, guilty or not, and in other cases, it might reduce their sentence, guilty or not. In other cases it may get them convicted, guilty or not, but that's another matter altogether.
In my best estimation, lawyers _want_ to win, and so, tend to do a good job in defending their clients, which is what they're paid to do. Again though, they're not paid to win, just to put up the best possible defense.
You are correct in that. On some of their servers they provide ensim server manager software pre-installed on it. Well, if there's a problem with the Ensim software, they won't assist you at all, unless there's a problem with the server.
Their stance is that they provided the server, which they maintain, but the software is up to you. Ironic, really, since they'll change your hostname upon request. (hint: software)
Other than that though, if you know how to peruse Ensim's website for answers (their communities tend to know more than Ensim proper, mind you), it's a simple task to keep up to date on the changes and whatnot. Between that and RedHat's up2date utility, it's a pretty good deal.
Again, I'm not saying that Rackshack is better, but if cost is the primary factor, then yes, it is.
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It's been a few years since I've been, but Hawai'i (Oahu, Kaneohe area) had TONS of video arcades when I was there. In fact, on the relatively small air force base that we were stationed on, there were at least five decently sized arcades. Granted, they were attached to other things, but at least two of the ATTACHED arcades in Hawai'i were larger than anything I've seen here in Memphis, Tennessee.
I imagine there's quite a great deal more overseas (China, Japan), but that's strictly a guess, as I've never ventured quite that far.
The local university has about the biggest selection of games around, and while I don't attend, I was up there with a friend of mine for the day once, and didn't lose once to any of the "hardcore" gamers stationed around it. I was quite pleased with myself, but after I realized that I'd just spent 8 hours in front of a stand up arcade on one quarter, and wasted the entire day away, I made a conscious decision not to go back. I've got real life responsibilities nowadays, and don't have the kinda time that sort of addiction requires.
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Wait. That's not right.
If it gets in, then there's a flaw for it to fix. If it can't get in, then, while it may have other flaws, it doesn't whichever flaw allows your worm to infiltrate it.
Now, there's a decent debate as to whether or not you could send your worm back out after you've fixed all the flaws, because, in theory, if you've fixed all the flaws in the system, the system should then be smart enough to not allow this code to be arbitrarily executing itself.
Of course, it could fix a number of flaws, and set the last update to occur at the next reboot, ala a run_once entry (for example), then run shutdown -r 60, then send itself back out. After its rebooted, it shouldn't be able to propagate itself at all... or something.
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Speaking as a father, if I were that concerned with my daughter's usage of the library's internet, I would be by her side while she used it, not expect the library to do my parenting for me.
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Based on what?
That much I actually agree with, in all senses.
Libertarians DO seem to think that money can do no wrong, and (being a libertarian), I agree with it. If you limit money to the point that it can have no impact in the government, then money can't do any wrong, without buying off the populace.
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I appreciate the sentiment, but honestly, I don't consider anything wrong with being told I'm wrong, no matter how it's done. Of course, if I'm right, and I'm told that I'm wrong, I get all snotty about it, but in this case, either way I'm defenseless... * sniff *
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Shaddup. You're making me feel bad now.
Honestly, I don't think I've made a completely accurate statement all day.
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Actually, that's correct.
Sorry, I was trying to put a lot of post in as few words as I could get away with, and it didn't occur to me that legalize and decriminalize were (basically) the same thing.
You are correct though, the lp wants to legalize all drugs, and focus on education for addicts as their means to the end. Again though, the green party feels similarly.
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Perhaps it is those matters which interest me the most, but from where I stand, they maintain similar stances on many current issues, including gay rights, abortion, drug laws (lp is for decriminalization of marijuana, while gp is for legalizing it), the internet, the internet and the government, the internet and Microsoft, technology, standardized testing, schools and church (ie, ten commandments / prayer in the classrooms), commercialization in the classrooms, and many many other issues.
Granted, they disagree on quite a few things as well, and often disagree on how to accomplish the things that they do agree on, but ideologically, I find them similar (again, in my viewpoint). They both wish to have smaller governments and smaller governmental budgets, both want to focus on education, and spend more money there, as well as defederalize state education requirements, etc. Sure, they disagree on gun control, and things of that nature, but again, from where I stand, they don't appear all that different.
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That's also why there are libertarians, who share many beliefs with the green party. That said, if more people started voting independent, I'm still unsure as to whether or not that would be a good thing. -9mm-
For PHP-related information, php.net is easily the most comprehensive language resource I've ever seen. Frankly, if every language out there had such an easy to use/easily available language reference, we'd see as many real programmers coming up out of the woodwork as we have seen php programmers (not discounting the skill of PHP programmers, just that it is, predomanately, a "web-only" language.
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I think that the effect isn't necessarily to get you to spend MORE money, but to spend the money that you're already spending on their products. Granted, they would LOVE it if an ad actually prompted you to go out and buy their product that second (which I've found to be most effective with things like pizza ads and the like), but for the most part, you'll watch an ad, and continue on.
What they want to happen is that, after having seen Kraft Mac and Cheese on the television, and just how deliciously scrumptious it looks, you'll stop buying Brand X Mac and Cheese, because it isn't as appealing.
Another affect is that they want their ads to linger in their heads, fooling you into wanting them. While you might not be hungry right after dinner while watching an ad for your nearby Burger King, if that ad were able to linger there until the next day, when you're taking your lunch hour, you might subconsiously head to burger king to quell the urge.
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I guess your mileage may very, but in my experience, as a LAN tech, ME was horrid, and much less stable than 98. Of course, this doesn't take into account whatever OEM software may have been installed, and its ME-compliance/optimization.
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I don't know if it helps you any, but, as previously mentioned somewhere on here, you can get a $2000 federal tax break for owning a hybrid. After the tax break, she's only saving money on gas. Granted, it's akin to a mail-in-rebate sort of deal, but if she can afford the difference up front, but just doesn't want to pay it, it should even things out for her. If she can't afford the difference up front, then well, buy the EX, and wait for prices to drop.
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I guess that would equate to "throw a man into the water and make him find the fish", or something like that.
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Shit. That was supposed to be funny.
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Well, considering the WWF (wrestling) no longer goes by that acronym since they were wrested of it by the WWF (wildlife), I would have thought it pretty safe.
The WWF (wrestling) is now going by WWE (World Wrestling Enterprise or Entertainment, or something), until they can find some legal claim to take back their WWF acronym.
That said, I'm a contributor to the WWF (wildlife), so perhaps I'm biased.
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Yeah. I think both kids died actually, but one of them might have lived.
She felt terrible for weeks, and couldn't go to work or even begin to crack a smile. The accident totalled her car completely (Honda Civic, in case anyone's wondering), despite its relatively new condition.
Naturally, her insurance went up immediately, despite her having been found innocent of any wrongdoing.
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My apologies, I meant specifically Tennessee, but the law has been pretty much universal for every state that I've lived in (to my knowledge).
It probably doesn't apply in states like Hawaii, where there is a heavy tourist population, large amounts of sidewalk merchants, and no crosswalks (downtown Waikiki, to the best of my recollection).
And yes, I agree that it is basic morality, unless (as addressed in another post here) you clearly saw them, had time to react, and just didn't because they were jaywalking.
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I don't know that you HAVE to try to avoid them, really, but I do guess you'd be charged with manslaughter if you didn't.
I'm not entirely clear on the subject, other than a friend of mine was sued by Johnny Cochran (yes THAT Johnny Cochran) for accidentally hitting two kids in the middle of the road.
They weren't in the crosswalk, and my friend couldn't see them because she was behind a U-Haul that swerved to avoid hitting the kids at the last second. Since she didn't have the view that the U-Haul did, the case was dismissed. For the record, she didn't try not to hit them, because she just didn't see them at all, and when she did, didn't have enough time to react even to apply the brakes.
That said, she was found innocent of manslaughter, and Johnny's civil suit was dismissed altogether.
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I know that it's true in the United States. As long as you
a) weren't speeding,
b) didn't evade the scene of the crime,
c) weren't under the influence of anything,
d) weren't doing anything else considered wrong,
then you didn't do anything wrong, really.
If someone walks out in front of your car in an area that you don't expect them to be (school zones, crosswalks, etc.), then you haven't committed a crime, and in my opinion, rightfully so.
I suppose you could be slapped with a "failure to maintain a proper lookout", but seriously, there are a ton of instances in which I might have hit a jaywalker that would literally not be my fault. I imagine the same applies.
As for horse and buggy days, I couldn't say.
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I don't mean to be nitpickity here, and certainly don't mean to come off as that "other poster" you were conversing with... but a couple of things I don't agree with:
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- You're referring to the necessity of cell phone features, and, while you're right, cell phones themselves aren't necessary, they certainly do make things more convenient.
- While we "got along without" cell phones for a great deal of time, we also did okay without many vaccines and medical treatments that we'd be likely lost without today.
Accustomization is something that everybody (except the Amish) pretty much succumbs to. The penetration of society with little trinkets like cell phones and pagers, while not at all necessary, certainly does make things easier, and does improve the quality of life in certain instances (think 911 calls or roadside assistance calls made from a cell phone).
That said, I'd very much like to send email from my (hypothetical) cell phone. (Hypothetical because I don't actually own a cell phone, but a two-way pager... company provided.
I was down in St. Louis the other day, at the Vans Warped Tour, and while I was getting sunburnt to a crisp, because I forgot sunscreen, I was emailing my wife, then 200+ miles away, asking her to have some sunburn remedies and treatments available for me when I got home, so as to soothe my pain.
Granted, that was by no means a necessity, but it was certainly a convenience. Another convenience was when the boyfriend (I assume) of the girl that passed out from heat exhaustion called for an ambulance to take her to the hospital to get rehydrated. I'm not saying she would have died, but in the 8 hours I spent at the UMB Pavilion in St. Louis, I didn't see a single pay phone (but I could be wrong, since I wasn't really looking... after all, I had my pager), and it was pretty damn handy to have medical assistance waiting for them by the time they got to the gates of the pavilion, etc.
Anyway, I've already rambled on, and I'm sure you see my point. I can't deny that cell phones and increases in technology are unnecessary, but you can't deny the conveniences they afford us. I'm sure there are plenty of people that will come up with a use for any feature offered, though I do agree that we could probably both do without the Hello Kitty screensavers.
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Agreed. If every language had the type of documentation found at php.net, programming wouldn't be nearly as daunting a task as people make it out to be.
As for my experience, the PHP manual taught me all the perl I know, in an indirect method.
(Note, I am by no means a great perl programmer, but I've not been able to accomplish any task thus far.)
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I don't understand...
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Here here. Congrats to you.
Honestly, I'm considering it myself. With a highly technical background, I'm a shoe-in for tech IP law, except that I haven't any law background or schooling behind me yet.
That said, I have two friends who are in law because they wanted to change the world, and make it a better place. I'm sure the money doesn't hurt, but at least one of the friends in question is barely making a living. He pays the bills and feeds his kids, but he's driving around in an 86 Buick Century, and his wife in an 88 Toyota 4-door. He's not raking it in hand-over-fist, and while his wife hates him for it sometimes (that he can't just sell out every now and again), he can truly say that he hasn't ever done anything that he doesn't agree with (in law, he used to be military).
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Agreed... further, it is not a lawyer's job or duty to "get his client off", rather, to provide that client the best possible defense.
The best possible defense in some cases may get the client off, guilty or not, and in other cases, it might reduce their sentence, guilty or not. In other cases it may get them convicted, guilty or not, but that's another matter altogether.
In my best estimation, lawyers _want_ to win, and so, tend to do a good job in defending their clients, which is what they're paid to do. Again though, they're not paid to win, just to put up the best possible defense.
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You are correct in that. On some of their servers they provide ensim server manager software pre-installed on it. Well, if there's a problem with the Ensim software, they won't assist you at all, unless there's a problem with the server.
Their stance is that they provided the server, which they maintain, but the software is up to you. Ironic, really, since they'll change your hostname upon request. (hint: software)
Other than that though, if you know how to peruse Ensim's website for answers (their communities tend to know more than Ensim proper, mind you), it's a simple task to keep up to date on the changes and whatnot. Between that and RedHat's up2date utility, it's a pretty good deal.
Again, I'm not saying that Rackshack is better, but if cost is the primary factor, then yes, it is.
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