Thankfully I don't eat luncheon meats very often, maybe once or twice every five yeras. I for one will be fine. I'll also keep an eye out for what else this crap ends up in.:)
Software patents are still thankfully illegal in most civilized countries, and Japanese patent law just doesn't CARE (though there's a reason the non-entertainment software industry over there is pretty dead). I'm a software developer myself, and I WANT COPYRIGHT REFORM. All of this copywrong is getting on my nerves.
Make a joke of it if you want, but this IS the truth for a lot of megacorps, and if you don't want to accept it, you can go ahead and be another sheep. Energy crisis is coming anyway, a lot of things are going to have to get shaken up.
According to their legal department, probably yes. I have never, and will never. I'll import my stuff and stay the HELL away from American mainstream music...hell, about 1 in a million songs these days are worth listening to anyway!
I second rptools, I know the developer and he's very receptive to ideas and to new devs. I recommend it to anyone - and it's system-independent, for the most part, so you don't have to bother with d20 if you don't want to.:)
Because, a school is no longer an academic institution - not at ANY level of education. Even the universities these days squander most of their money supporting corporate interests on shaky promises of big cash returns. Fools.
What it really comes down to is who can turn a profit doing what, and because of poor education funding in the US, schools often have no choice if they actually want to have some books for the kids to read - at least one per three students, anyway.
If only I had mod points, heh. I like the "Desert credits" idea - if the kid stuffs his face with too much junk, dump his ass in the desert and make him sweat it off on the walk back to school.:p
Both sides of this little argument are exact examples of the problems we're having today. The reason corporations portray such rebellious behaviour as ideal, is because the "little rebels" are a LOT more profitable. Kids who dominate their parents get HUGE amounts of disposable income, and are the only reason a lot of companies are still around!
It is peer pressure, both real (caused by the majority around them eating junk food) and virtual (mass media portraying everyone eating junk food). So, in the eyes of the average kid, everybody eats like a fucking fatass slob...so he does too. Welcome to morbid obesity.
I think decent parents would talk to their kids about the system, and any kid with half a brain would agree to come up with some restrictions on himself - which he could help himself impose with the paycard system. Honestly, it's not a bad idea, though it comes down to most people being useless, shitty parents.
Indeed - you probably haven't seen Telus' business practices, but if it weren't for gross bribery of the federal police, their CEO, board of directors, Human Resources departments, and several others would be going to prison for nearly every crime under the sun. I think first and second degree murders would be the only things they couldn't be charged with.:p
I've used ATI cards on Linux and Windoze, and let me just say...they suck on BOTH now. I used to love them, but everything past about a 9600 is pure and utter CRAP. It's not the power of the card, though, but the shitty drivers, regardless of OS, holding them back.
Same thing applies to the States, and just about everywhere else, mate. Countries with low crime rates (Canada, for example - can't name any others off the top of my head, but I know there are a few with lower...Iceland I think?) generally also have higher reform rates, because crime really doesn't get as accepted or glamourized by society. American society has always had a bit of a romantic affair with the character of the gangster...British society has often seen criminal figures sticking up for themselves as heroes (exception: American Revolution)! So of course, these nations will have a higher crime rate, and after centuries of it...it's hard to change.
What I don't like, is how it's pushing on other nations with the advent of more globalization. You get shit like Grand Theft Auto and all the gangsta rap influencing children and making them think this stuff is "cool". Even around here, youth gangs' numbers are at unprecedented highs, and it's not going to stop. We need to look at crime from a social standpoint, not just from a punitive one. Keep stuff like GTA out of the hands of impressionable children, or for crap's sake...at least teach them the difference between fantasy and reality. Parents these days disgust me.
Taylor Out.
Google ads don't really bug me, they're just sidebars on normal websites. I'm used to seeing ad banners and sidebars, it's only if they're exploiting a vulnerability in pop-up blockers that it gets me mad.
They can't, dude...we all still get spam. Less spam, sure, but there's always still those messages that squeak by our junk mail filter every day. Or, in the case of MSN Live, the fact that all of our good e-mail ends up filtered with the spam.:p
Well...as someone who knows information laws in Canada decently well (though IANAL, I'm finishing a software engineering degree in the spring), I can say this: either he found a loophole in how that domain was registered, and got it pulled on a technicality, or it's getting blown open and he's going to jail. Even if he DID get it on a technicality, it could very easily be judged as an attempt to quash free speech, and he's STILL going to jail.
On the upside, this is getting into mainstream news and is going to utterly KILL the possibility of him getting elected to party leadership, because the last thing they need is another scandal involving famous party members being arrested.
I have an answer - Flash Artists, unite, and show this guy getting his ass kicked all over Newgrounds by Captain Planet! Cap wouldn't let this shit fly, NO SIR! Intellectual property laws and corporate interests have been holding back green technology for too damn long.
Well...when I was being an computer assistance guy in my dorm a couple years ago, the university had a bit of a virus problem, and I learned a LOT about AV software.
The university was running Norton. Whole campus went down for nearly a week. They eventually formated most of their systems.
I was running AVG. Lost my box too.
I tried Avast! afterwards, and managed to keep my box clean. I then set it up on someone else's machine who I knew WAS infected, and was able to clean it without formatting. YES, Avast is a resource hog, I won't deny the fact that it's the slowest of the offerings, but it is THE undisputed most powerful for eliminating stuff, from my experience. I haven't tried AntiVir yet, but considering I haven't had a single virus problem since then, and that I lived on a university campus for another year and a half afterwards with ZERO antivirus security on our side of the firewall, I'm pretty damn impressed with Avast!
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Thankfully I don't eat luncheon meats very often, maybe once or twice every five yeras. I for one will be fine. I'll also keep an eye out for what else this crap ends up in. :)
Software patents are still thankfully illegal in most civilized countries, and Japanese patent law just doesn't CARE (though there's a reason the non-entertainment software industry over there is pretty dead). I'm a software developer myself, and I WANT COPYRIGHT REFORM. All of this copywrong is getting on my nerves.
Make a joke of it if you want, but this IS the truth for a lot of megacorps, and if you don't want to accept it, you can go ahead and be another sheep. Energy crisis is coming anyway, a lot of things are going to have to get shaken up.
According to their legal department, probably yes. I have never, and will never. I'll import my stuff and stay the HELL away from American mainstream music...hell, about 1 in a million songs these days are worth listening to anyway!
I second rptools, I know the developer and he's very receptive to ideas and to new devs. I recommend it to anyone - and it's system-independent, for the most part, so you don't have to bother with d20 if you don't want to. :)
Because, a school is no longer an academic institution - not at ANY level of education. Even the universities these days squander most of their money supporting corporate interests on shaky promises of big cash returns. Fools. What it really comes down to is who can turn a profit doing what, and because of poor education funding in the US, schools often have no choice if they actually want to have some books for the kids to read - at least one per three students, anyway.
If only I had mod points, heh. I like the "Desert credits" idea - if the kid stuffs his face with too much junk, dump his ass in the desert and make him sweat it off on the walk back to school. :p
Both sides of this little argument are exact examples of the problems we're having today. The reason corporations portray such rebellious behaviour as ideal, is because the "little rebels" are a LOT more profitable. Kids who dominate their parents get HUGE amounts of disposable income, and are the only reason a lot of companies are still around!
It is peer pressure, both real (caused by the majority around them eating junk food) and virtual (mass media portraying everyone eating junk food). So, in the eyes of the average kid, everybody eats like a fucking fatass slob...so he does too. Welcome to morbid obesity. I think decent parents would talk to their kids about the system, and any kid with half a brain would agree to come up with some restrictions on himself - which he could help himself impose with the paycard system. Honestly, it's not a bad idea, though it comes down to most people being useless, shitty parents.
Indeed - you probably haven't seen Telus' business practices, but if it weren't for gross bribery of the federal police, their CEO, board of directors, Human Resources departments, and several others would be going to prison for nearly every crime under the sun. I think first and second degree murders would be the only things they couldn't be charged with. :p
I've used ATI cards on Linux and Windoze, and let me just say...they suck on BOTH now. I used to love them, but everything past about a 9600 is pure and utter CRAP. It's not the power of the card, though, but the shitty drivers, regardless of OS, holding them back.
Same thing applies to the States, and just about everywhere else, mate. Countries with low crime rates (Canada, for example - can't name any others off the top of my head, but I know there are a few with lower...Iceland I think?) generally also have higher reform rates, because crime really doesn't get as accepted or glamourized by society. American society has always had a bit of a romantic affair with the character of the gangster...British society has often seen criminal figures sticking up for themselves as heroes (exception: American Revolution)! So of course, these nations will have a higher crime rate, and after centuries of it...it's hard to change. What I don't like, is how it's pushing on other nations with the advent of more globalization. You get shit like Grand Theft Auto and all the gangsta rap influencing children and making them think this stuff is "cool". Even around here, youth gangs' numbers are at unprecedented highs, and it's not going to stop. We need to look at crime from a social standpoint, not just from a punitive one. Keep stuff like GTA out of the hands of impressionable children, or for crap's sake...at least teach them the difference between fantasy and reality. Parents these days disgust me. Taylor Out.
Hmmm...needs a lower pricetag, but can you think of ANYWHERE better to put your pr0n? :p
I want one.
Google ads don't really bug me, they're just sidebars on normal websites. I'm used to seeing ad banners and sidebars, it's only if they're exploiting a vulnerability in pop-up blockers that it gets me mad.
They can't, dude...we all still get spam. Less spam, sure, but there's always still those messages that squeak by our junk mail filter every day. Or, in the case of MSN Live, the fact that all of our good e-mail ends up filtered with the spam. :p
Well...as someone who knows information laws in Canada decently well (though IANAL, I'm finishing a software engineering degree in the spring), I can say this: either he found a loophole in how that domain was registered, and got it pulled on a technicality, or it's getting blown open and he's going to jail. Even if he DID get it on a technicality, it could very easily be judged as an attempt to quash free speech, and he's STILL going to jail. On the upside, this is getting into mainstream news and is going to utterly KILL the possibility of him getting elected to party leadership, because the last thing they need is another scandal involving famous party members being arrested.
I have an answer - Flash Artists, unite, and show this guy getting his ass kicked all over Newgrounds by Captain Planet! Cap wouldn't let this shit fly, NO SIR! Intellectual property laws and corporate interests have been holding back green technology for too damn long.
Well...when I was being an computer assistance guy in my dorm a couple years ago, the university had a bit of a virus problem, and I learned a LOT about AV software. The university was running Norton. Whole campus went down for nearly a week. They eventually formated most of their systems. I was running AVG. Lost my box too. I tried Avast! afterwards, and managed to keep my box clean. I then set it up on someone else's machine who I knew WAS infected, and was able to clean it without formatting. YES, Avast is a resource hog, I won't deny the fact that it's the slowest of the offerings, but it is THE undisputed most powerful for eliminating stuff, from my experience. I haven't tried AntiVir yet, but considering I haven't had a single virus problem since then, and that I lived on a university campus for another year and a half afterwards with ZERO antivirus security on our side of the firewall, I'm pretty damn impressed with Avast!