Why not? The key figure right now for the effects of concussions is a WWE wrestler who killed his wife and child, then strangled himself. Nowinski's Sports Legacy Institute was the one that examined the brain, and their findings were similar to those of the various football players examined.
What next, is Microsoft going to have to drink from different water fountains than the "normal" software companies? Are they going to have to wear a Windows badge on their shirt every time they show their face in public?
Are you silly? Of course he does. Now ask him if Apple should put an arbitrary price on Safari or iTunes, or whether the FSF should put an arbitrary price on any of its utilities, simply because otherwise a "level playing field" might not develop.
So this is pretty much it. It's not about standards, enforcing a free market (kind of a contradiction in terms, innit?), ensuring a level playing field for Web browsers, or any of that pie-in-the-sky bullshit. It's about putting enough handcuffs on a competent company so their less competent fellows can catch up.
Doubt it. They seem to have made it clear in the past that once you veer off into other people's code, you're pretty much on your own as far as bugs or security holes go.
Forget MS vs Linux, or MS vs Apple, this is gonna be the *real* computing holy war of the future: MS as computing institution vs MS as springboard for screwy new technology.
Actually, the artist usually keeps the copyrights, or transfers them to a publishing company (generally wholly owned by the artist/artists, after what happened with Lennon/McCartney and the whole Northern Songs clusterfuck).
Good argument, but I still stand by what I said. Any document that declares a right to life and liberty and also codifies slavery is flawed and contradictory. Any document that declares a right to property and allows for eminent domain and federal regulation of interstate commerce is flawed and contradictory. The contradictions and flaws in the US Constitution have severly damaged freedom and capitalism in this country.
Sadly, you can find support in the Constitution for all the things you mention, if you look hard enough. It's a flawed, self-contradictory piece of paper that has long deviated from the moral and political principles its writers laid out.
As for weakening the federal government, sure, most people "want" it on some level, but you can be damn sure they're not going to want cuts in anything that actually affects them. That's the real evil of a welfare state: it turns us into 300 million grifters trying to stick each other with the check.
As far as the capitals, it's just extraneous crap, seeing as how everyone seems to run for Empire/Chaos territories anyways as soon as they can find a flight master.
I played WAR for a little while after launch (and I'll probably play more, but it's *very* tough on my laptop, occasionally to the point of being damn near unplayable). The PVE stuff is really there to show you this isn't a PVE game, the crafting stuff has me scratching my head in confusion, and getting around some of the places can be a total nightmare compared to WoW. There's some bugs too (fell off the world a time or two in Altdorf). I think the positives outweigh the negatives though. It's actually the first MMO I've played where I *like* to PvP (oops RvR).
Truer than you think. I remember a while back, someone took a look at NCSoft's numbers, and figured out that they make nearly as much money off of City of Heroes (~150,000 subs) as they do off of the sub-free Guild Wars (~5 million copies sold). EQ and Ultima Online are still operating and still at a profit despite a massive drop-off in populations (EQ for UO, and EQ2/WoW for EQ).
Money aside, though, the real issue at hand is that with Blizzard, like many other very successful entertainment ventures, the inmates are effectively running the asylum. It's not enough for WoW to be the biggest MMO ever, if the dev's aren't convinced that it's not the *best* MMO, they'll start rolling out the changes. Wintergrasp and the achievement system come to mind, especially considering that both were announced before WAR even went live.
I'm no ardent Free Software supporter or anything like that, but if you're going to knock Stallman's abilities as a coder, knock Emacs or GCC or something else he was actually involved with. Hurd from the beginning has been left in the hands of other developers (Thomas Bushnell to start with IIRC, and I've got no f'n clue who's working on it now). As far as the date, there may have been early attempts at a GNU kernel as early as 1986, but initial development on Hurd is pretty firmly set at 1990.
The free market *didn't* get us into this mess, because we haven't had a free market in housing lending for decades. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been around in one way or another since the New Deal to keep an artificial (ie fake) level of liquidity in the housing market. The CRA (effectively forcing businesses to make sub-prime loans to keep regulators off their backs) has been around since the Carter administration. The financial wizards that started this mess knew full well that the government would be more than willing to let them off the hook when the bill came due. So yeah, let it burn. It'll hurt Wall Street, it'll hurt Main Street, it'll hurt plenty who made bad decisions and probably more who didn't, but what's left in the end will be honest. And we can rebuild from there.
Shaking a gin martini aerates the drink, causing a sharper taste. Shaking a vodka martini (the kind James Bond drinks) makes the drink colder and weaker, both of which make it taste less like lighter fluid.
It's called SIV in primates, and it's actually a different virus (although not very, and it isn't disease-causing in them). I've heard the vaccine story before, but it smacks of conspiracy theory and seems completely unnecessary when any old cut while preparing bushmeat would do the trick. And, actually, HIV has never really been called HTLV-III by anyone outside of Robert Gallo.
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Why not? The key figure right now for the effects of concussions is a WWE wrestler who killed his wife and child, then strangled himself. Nowinski's Sports Legacy Institute was the one that examined the brain, and their findings were similar to those of the various football players examined.
What next, is Microsoft going to have to drink from different water fountains than the "normal" software companies? Are they going to have to wear a Windows badge on their shirt every time they show their face in public?
How about we have two different families living in your house independent of each other? How much better would the lawn look?
So why don't you deal with the people directly committing this sort of thoughtcrime, instead of Microsoft?
Are you silly? Of course he does. Now ask him if Apple should put an arbitrary price on Safari or iTunes, or whether the FSF should put an arbitrary price on any of its utilities, simply because otherwise a "level playing field" might not develop.
So this is pretty much it. It's not about standards, enforcing a free market (kind of a contradiction in terms, innit?), ensuring a level playing field for Web browsers, or any of that pie-in-the-sky bullshit. It's about putting enough handcuffs on a competent company so their less competent fellows can catch up.
Well, were the fixes in 3.5.10 applicable to OpenBSD?
Doubt it. They seem to have made it clear in the past that once you veer off into other people's code, you're pretty much on your own as far as bugs or security holes go.
In other late breaking news, 100% of Coke drinkers prefer Coke to Pepsi.
A lot of users don't give them.
It's the GNU Hurd of desktops!
Forget MS vs Linux, or MS vs Apple, this is gonna be the *real* computing holy war of the future: MS as computing institution vs MS as springboard for screwy new technology.
Actually, the artist usually keeps the copyrights, or transfers them to a publishing company (generally wholly owned by the artist/artists, after what happened with Lennon/McCartney and the whole Northern Songs clusterfuck).
Good argument, but I still stand by what I said. Any document that declares a right to life and liberty and also codifies slavery is flawed and contradictory. Any document that declares a right to property and allows for eminent domain and federal regulation of interstate commerce is flawed and contradictory. The contradictions and flaws in the US Constitution have severly damaged freedom and capitalism in this country.
I thought he got it when Stephen Fry knocked him ass over teakettle for bringing him coffee instead of tea...
Sadly, you can find support in the Constitution for all the things you mention, if you look hard enough. It's a flawed, self-contradictory piece of paper that has long deviated from the moral and political principles its writers laid out.
As for weakening the federal government, sure, most people "want" it on some level, but you can be damn sure they're not going to want cuts in anything that actually affects them. That's the real evil of a welfare state: it turns us into 300 million grifters trying to stick each other with the check.
As far as the capitals, it's just extraneous crap, seeing as how everyone seems to run for Empire/Chaos territories anyways as soon as they can find a flight master.
I played WAR for a little while after launch (and I'll probably play more, but it's *very* tough on my laptop, occasionally to the point of being damn near unplayable). The PVE stuff is really there to show you this isn't a PVE game, the crafting stuff has me scratching my head in confusion, and getting around some of the places can be a total nightmare compared to WoW. There's some bugs too (fell off the world a time or two in Altdorf). I think the positives outweigh the negatives though. It's actually the first MMO I've played where I *like* to PvP (oops RvR).
Warhammer geeks: More disposable income than D&D geeks since 1983.
Truer than you think. I remember a while back, someone took a look at NCSoft's numbers, and figured out that they make nearly as much money off of City of Heroes (~150,000 subs) as they do off of the sub-free Guild Wars (~5 million copies sold). EQ and Ultima Online are still operating and still at a profit despite a massive drop-off in populations (EQ for UO, and EQ2/WoW for EQ).
Money aside, though, the real issue at hand is that with Blizzard, like many other very successful entertainment ventures, the inmates are effectively running the asylum. It's not enough for WoW to be the biggest MMO ever, if the dev's aren't convinced that it's not the *best* MMO, they'll start rolling out the changes. Wintergrasp and the achievement system come to mind, especially considering that both were announced before WAR even went live.
I'm no ardent Free Software supporter or anything like that, but if you're going to knock Stallman's abilities as a coder, knock Emacs or GCC or something else he was actually involved with. Hurd from the beginning has been left in the hands of other developers (Thomas Bushnell to start with IIRC, and I've got no f'n clue who's working on it now). As far as the date, there may have been early attempts at a GNU kernel as early as 1986, but initial development on Hurd is pretty firmly set at 1990.
The free market *didn't* get us into this mess, because we haven't had a free market in housing lending for decades. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been around in one way or another since the New Deal to keep an artificial (ie fake) level of liquidity in the housing market. The CRA (effectively forcing businesses to make sub-prime loans to keep regulators off their backs) has been around since the Carter administration. The financial wizards that started this mess knew full well that the government would be more than willing to let them off the hook when the bill came due. So yeah, let it burn. It'll hurt Wall Street, it'll hurt Main Street, it'll hurt plenty who made bad decisions and probably more who didn't, but what's left in the end will be honest. And we can rebuild from there.
Shaking a gin martini aerates the drink, causing a sharper taste. Shaking a vodka martini (the kind James Bond drinks) makes the drink colder and weaker, both of which make it taste less like lighter fluid.
And failing.
It's called SIV in primates, and it's actually a different virus (although not very, and it isn't disease-causing in them). I've heard the vaccine story before, but it smacks of conspiracy theory and seems completely unnecessary when any old cut while preparing bushmeat would do the trick. And, actually, HIV has never really been called HTLV-III by anyone outside of Robert Gallo.
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