The problem with that, is Christianity is a relatively new religion to the people in that particular region of the world. No no, don't get yourself in a tizzy... Christianity did not exist before Christ... or are you saying that it was sheer luck that he happened to bear the last name that is the corner stone of the name of the religion that holds him in such High Esteem?
So these are people who as a people, have lived in that area before Christ was an itch in Big Daddy's pants (assuming that God wears pants). Trying to use *THAT* Religion as the determining factor in this, is like throwing Napalm over your house to make it fire-proof.
And some FYI to others that may read this... Romans used the term Palestine in reference to the very same region now referred to as Palestine. So the idea of Palestinian land dates back MUCH further than late 19th/early 20th century as some have suggested here. The Muslim Presence in Jerusalem began in the 7th century with the Arab conquest of Jerusalem. Oh, and also, as I've read here, apparently since they continue to fight, these people are accused of loving violence over food and over their children. Well, Christians must LOATHE their children, after rounding up 35,000 of them between the 4th and 5th Crusades and sending them off to fight a war. Of course, there was no Children's crusade, because those children were sold into slavery long before they ever got to the Holy Land. So neither side has clean hands in this. Not the participants, nor the observers.
maybe rather than the rest of the world being happy they built the corporate jet for the Fat American businessman, the rest of the world should be happy they have a job that Americans might jump at the chance to do. You aren't the only one who is unhappy that 95% of the American population works to support the other 5%. I'm just grateful there is someone who makes more money than I do, that can afford to pay me to fix their shit. If it was building jets for rich fat cats, as long as there is a paycheck and I'm not directly contributing to some crime... I'm good.
Can you point out exactly where I showed you that the world was better off without you? Or can you only prove that you have no intention to ever actually learn anything, and only intend to make an ass of yourself?
What are you talking about? If Lori Drew had not done what she had done, and girl had not died, Lori Drew would never have been arrested, regardless of how many times she signed up at Myspace with fake names and information.
Hello?
She was charged with the crime she was charged with because the prosecution went with the policy... if you can't get them for the bigger crime, get them for the lesser crime. At the very least get them. Again, if she had not committed the greater crime, she would not face the charges for the lesser crime... else there would already be FAR more people in jail right now for signing up to Myspace with false information.
Al Capone was convicted for the lesser crime of Tax Evasion because the prosecution knew they could convict him of that. He escape prosecution for the greater crimes that he committed, not because he didn't do them, but because legally, there was not enough evidence to convict without having it overturned on appeal. You can't argue that just because you cannot successfully prosecute someone, they must not have committed the crime.
Lori Drew is guilty of causing the death of an impressionable child who was not quite old enough to understand life and responsibility and consequence. She abused her position as a parent and an adult, and maliciously manipulated a child into killing herself. Just because the prosecution could not convict her of this, does not mean she did not do this. You can't use the Jersey Defense here, that Everything is legal as long as you don't get caught.
So you fear for your ability to sign up for online services under a fake name. If you plan on performing malicious acts, you SHOULD be fearful.
Wow... what a way to justify your own inappropriate actions... to throw out a blanket policy that Everyone has harassed someone to the point of regretting it, just so you feel better about the times that YOU did it in the past.
So, how does it feel to be wrong? I mean, you are sure that everyone here has harassed someone to a point where they might have felt bad about it. I've never done that. I know others that have never done that. This makes you wrong. Don't even bother to argue that... you said everyone. I'm part of that Everyone, and I'm here. Some of us actually take responsibility for our actions, and the words that come out of our mouths. Some of us think about what we say before we say it, and if we say biting things, we mean to be biting. I understand that this is a foreign concept to you. Don't argue that it's not a foreign concept to you either. You've already proven that you need to be reminded how much words can hurt someone. That means you forget how much words can hurt people. That means you don't always think about what you say. That means that you don't take responsibility for what you say. That means the concept of ALWAYS thinking before you speak and ALWAYS taking responsibility for your words and actions is a foreign concept.
Lori Drew knew full well what she was doing was malicious. She just thought nothing was wrong with what she was doing. She thought her actions were correct for HER and her life. She just did not put any real thought to what she was doing. She enjoyed being mean to that child, and she enjoyed making that child's life hell. Then she applied her own twisted morality to it, and thought, "Aww, what a baby... can't take the heat."
Well, this woman got off light. I say an Eye for an Eye. I say that if you want to teach people to take responsibility, you must show them that this kind of behavior will not be tolerated. Execute her. I don't really care if people think that is absurd or too harsh. If people do not fear and respect the consequences, they will continue to behave badly. Lori Drew's punishment should be so harsh that she not only never EVER wants to act that way again, but that she should spend her remaining life making amends... considering her actions already cost someone else (someone who was not fully developed enough to realize their potential and understand life) her life. Lori Drew's life should be forfeit. Ok. Maybe not Executed. Maybe a lifetime of public service helping kids with self-esteem issues.
Just an FYI... anyone with a Wii can be playing NES games. Most of the NES titles are available as extras that can be downloaded to the console with a net connection. Miss that old 3 level Donky Kong? Download it. Have a Yearning for Castlevania? Download it. Then sit back, turn your Wii controller sideways, and play.
Isn't that typical. Find anyone or anything else to blame, aside from the actual culprit. I mean, these kids see movies like Hackers, they learn that it is indeed a crime, then they disregard THAT lesson, and only take away from it the fact that if they protect the world from disaster by only doing good with their hacking, they can get the Pretty Girl at the end?
I don't buy it. Nope. Because Hackers is full, from beginning to end, that Hacking is Bad/Illegal/Criminal. So the only thing that movies are guilty of, is not doing a good enough job of teaching kids that criminal activities lead to jail.
Riiiight... and there's no reason to remind people of what's currently going on in the world... because everyone regularly proves that they will remember it all, guaranteed.
Oh... and no reason to go after the person who creates the virus. Only the person who uses it against others.
No reason to go after the guy who makes pipe bombs either. Just the guy who uses them.
No reason to go after the guy who makes the full-auto conversion kits. Just the guy who applies them to the off-the-shelf weapon.
No reason to go after the guy who makes the fake passports. Just the guy who uses one.
Oh, and why stop at the creator of the windows API? Why not go after the inventor of the computer? {/sarcasm}
I did hear that reference twice before I saw the SNL clip... but since I was setting up 4 desktops every day in the back of a coffee shop in Tallahassee, more people benefited from my homelessness than from making fun of it.
UCLA received 55,000+ applications last year... and each carried with it a $60 non-refundable fee. That means in just application fees alone, $3.3 million dollars came in to UCLA. Now, if UCLA is spending $100k on fighting file sharing... I guess that means they only got $3.2 million profit off those applications.
Now, if it were more of a bumpkin school that only charged $25 per application... the first 4000 applicants would pay for this.
From my year+ of being homeless and living in a van...
I used a deep cell battery (I'll need to check the amp rating, but it started that Ford E250 with that 298 quite easily) and a 700 watt inverter. I was able to run that inverter for a few hairs over 2 hours before I needed to start the van to recharge the battery. Any more than say two and a half hours, and the charge was too low to turn over the van's engine.
Now, you aren't talking about a 700 watt inverter. You are not talking about a deep cell battery either. However, two or three deep cell batteries and a smaller inverter should last quite a while.
Jailbreaking is voids the warranty. Installing Apps from a source other than Google on an Android does not. If you have to go through a procedure that only few people can do (and from the large number of people on Yahoo Answers that cannot properly "jailbreak" their iPhone, don't argue that it's easy) and you risk damaging your phone where you have to go buy a new one, just to install applications that aren't made by the company that sells the phone... then it cannot be compared to the ease with which the Android was DESIGNED to enable adding third party applications.
So sure. Anything is possible. That doesn't translate to "anything" being right.
I'll try to make this simple, and I'll even use a car analogy.
You loan your car to a friend. Your friend loses the keys. Does this mean you are guilty of losing the keys? Absolutely not. You may be guilty of loaning your car to an idiot, but you did not lose the keys.
Now, I understand you want to emphasize the incompetence of the British Ministry of Defense. However, it has already been established that *they* lost nothing. Get over it. Get off it.
Well, I do tend to purchase clothes from Goodwill as much as I buy clothes new. I also get around by a bicycle and a diesel vehicle. Now, I was using straight used cooking oil and homemade biodiesel, until in 2006 a man in South Carolina was charged with Failure to pay the Fuel Tax for making his own biodiesel... although the fine was suspended because the judge did not want to give the impression that seeking alternative fuel sources was a bad thing. Can't find the article I read back then, but here is a similar link... http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/03/illinois_man_fi.php and a related link http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d08_1181765099
And I rent. From the home owner.... on their family land. You got me on the tools, but i guess I could spend more time in the barn with the forge and anvil leaning how to be a blacksmith... it's just so damn hot back there.
The horses and pigs supply the manure we use for fertilizer. Good soil here though... in the part of the country where just about everyone grew their own tobacco as their cash crop.
I know we aren't self sufficient. I know I can be if pressed. And I don't see the people in power doing anything to repair the economy. I only see them doing what they can to maintain a status quo for the upper class.
No taxation without representation. It is what the country was started for... among other things. Our current government does not represent me, but I'm paying my taxes none the less. No desire to go to jail and avoid paying taxes that way.
I don't own any bonds. I don't have any investments. I don't even own a credit card. So, why should I be contributing to keeping AIG alive?
Now, in a related note, I also can't get a mortgage. Been rejected. Why are the tax dollars I pay being used to keep Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac alive? Let's see. I apply to purchase a house and get a mortgage... where if accepted my money would provide a house. Now, these companies get my money anyway, except I don't get the house.
Maybe it is time for the entire world's financial industry to take a massive hit.
it is true that so many people insist that the music industry already owns and controls radio. I personally believe it is an ongoing crusade on their part.
Pandora offers the individual listener the potential of having music served to them that their algorithm determines should be a good match. Pandora listeners have the option of tweaking that selection with an "I like" or an "I don't like" vote. However, a Pandora listener can just as easily populate their playlist with only specific songs that THEY want to listen to.
Traditional radio/satellite radio offers all listeners the same songs. The only choices are to change the station and hope for the best, or turn the radio off. You have to accept what you are handed. Radio stations create rotations... Pop, Heavy, Medium, Light...etc. Songs in the POPular rotation get played the most often, over and over, until they get relegated to the Heavy rotation. Songs in the heavy rotation get played more often than those in medium rotation, and those in medium... well you get the picture. What I think should be in Heavy rotation does not necessarily match what you think should be in heavy rotation. But here's a little insight for you, from my 4 years as an FM DJ. The songs in the different rotations, get their rotation designation from the music director of the station, based on what HE thinks the rotation should be. He bases his decision on things like Bilboard top 100, requests, and even his or her personal preference. Which brings us back to Traditional radio/Satellite radio is a controlled medium, where someone is deciding what is popular and what is not, and passing that info down to you.
What is the connection to the music Industry trying to destroy all of internet radio? Are you familiar with the popular media player called VLC? http://www.videolan.org/ and give it a try. Did you know that it keeps a list of internet radio stations that you can pick and choose from? If you downloaded it (or already have it), start it up. From the top menu, hit view, and open the playlist. From the Playlist, hit Manage, and look at Services Directory. We are only interested in Shoutcast Radio Listings. There are currently 397 internet radio stations in that list. The number will vary as some are very amateur, and some are essential commercial. All are considered internet radio. The Music industry cannot exert a controlling influence over all of them to make them play what they would wish. When all you need is add a plugin to your Winamp player to turn your music collection into a Shoutcast Radio station, how can the music industry exert control over you? What they can do, is track you down by your IP address (just like a movie thief), contact you through your ISP, and have you fined for not paying for the music you play... until you make the choice THEY want, which is you see that it costs you more than you get out of having your own radio station.
The music industry not only wants their dollar. They want the old days back where they decided what was hot and what was not, and they want to get back to those days of serving up their choices in music to the public.
So let me get this straight. The Rolling Stones write and record "Start Me up" prior to 1975. They release it three times, twice in collections, and finally in 1981. It is their misfortune that it will be in demand by Microsoft for their Windows 95 marketing campaign? What... because they didn't have the "foresight" to hold of on releasing it so less than 14 years would pass? THis song is still in demand by people. It is considered a signature piece representative of Keith Richards. It is still used to open shows. You might even say it is Quintessential Rolling Stones.
According to you, the Rolling Stones should be screwed blued and tattooed, because a company large enough to put the most recognizable portion of that song into every home three times a day (or included with the damn OS) didn't actually have a demand for the song until after you think the copyright should have run out.
No.
The Rolling Stones created it. They deserve to get paid for it. It was an investment of time and effort. Everyone deserves to get paid for their investments. Sorry, but I don't hold that after a short limit of time, your investment becomes worth nothing. I'm not talking about taking cheese and sticking it in the fridge and calling it an investment. That song is like money in the bank and should always be treated as such for the creators' (not the creators' estates). You put money in the bank, and after 20 years, it doesn't become public money. Maybe it should become public money after the investor dies, to follow the old adage "You can't take it with you".
But you never know when something is going to be in demand. Some company like Microsoft should never be able to go "Jackpot! I can use that formerly copyrighted material in this marketing campaign, I can make millions because it is still popular, I won't have to pay a dime for it, AND the artists who made it is still alive to see me make millions off their work." According to you, this is exactly what should have happened.
I can tell you've never worked hard at anything in your life. I can tell you've never created anything with the fruit of your own imagination. And I can tell you'd lie to try to tell me otherwise.
I'm glad to see you point out holes in this theory... because those holes also apply to IT professionals. By that, I mean the IT Pro who is constantly finding security holes in something a programmer spent hundreds of hours designing, *should* feel good about how he is working to make something better... not only better for the programmer, but for everyone who is going to use that software. The IT security expert who has to hack into systems to learn how to protect against hackers, *should* feel good for the same reasons.
And as far as cops and military personnel not feeling happy... isn't it bad that our protection isn't very happy about the job they are doing? How can they do an effective job if they dislike their job? It makes them not want to be there, it makes them sloppy, and it makes them care less about the quality of the job they are doing. I don't want *that* cop on the beat.
Wouldn't cops and military personnel also be extremely unhappy as well, based on this?
Wouldn't people who work in demolitions, tearing down buildings, be very unhappy?
Wouldn't this mean that anyone working in a job that had a potential negative impact on others, also be very unhappy? I mean with gas prices what they are, isn't the guy working at the gas station feeling miserable, because people hate paying as much as they are for gas, and he is the front-line representative seeing these reactions?
I just got back from 2045 in my Ubuntu controlled time machine...
Solaris is the only OS in use.
Apparently MS could not comply with the federally mandated "No Home without a Computer" program, which was necessary with the abolishment of Congress in favor with what was dubbed "Cell Phone Democracy". In order for every citizen to be able to vote on issues, every person needed a cell phone. In 2032, every citizen was issued a cell phone, or credited for their existing one, providing that their individual unit could interface with a home computer. This meant that every home needed to have a computer. MS refused to supply an OS at cost, arguing that their $499 sticker price for an internet based OS was a bargain.
Linux continued to grow a fraction of a step multiple times per day, but never completely left their idea behind that they could make an OS work on any hardware, as long as it was installed properly, and that the user picked the right boot loader (Grub and LILO are still the only two main choices... for software). With the birth of the AIOS (Advanced Input Output System), both Grub and LILO were now obsolete, but Linux developers refused to let go of these loaders, arguing "This AI thing isn't Open Source, and we'll make it comply!"
Solaris embraced the AIOS and net boot concept, developing a three stage OS that would start with the IOS (initial Operating System, distributed freely on a PinkyNail drive) which users would log into via DNA sampling and retinal scanning, followed by the DemocratOS which would connect to their cell phone, and finally by the CUOS (common user Operating System) for general use. Java apparently is not dead, and is in fact living quite comfortably these days.
Sorry guys. I guess Zemlin might have dropped the ball...
I suppose you can remove the grind altogether, unless it is related to the story and plot.
First, players must check a job board... things they can do to earn Experience. If "Good Characters" choose to walk the outer wall at a protected town, they earn experience for their time. If there is an attack during that time, or of there are "monsters" to kill from the wall with distance weapons, they earn more experience. On the opposite side of that, if "Evil" characters check their job boards, they might be able to siege this town, for experience. To ensure that the town has people guarding it, the job board might not even present jobs other than guard duty, until a minimum number of guards are on the wall.
THere could be three main camps insteaf og two. SO no more Alliance/Hoarde... but now White/Grey/Black... Good/Neutral/Evil where the neutral job board would depend on balancing what's not being done on either side.
your job board has a quest to rescue a computer controlled character? Great. There could be a job board request to go and kidnap a character. People could take jobs as the bartender or stable master, or weapon smith (if they build those skills... bar tending school in a fantasy game lol) and this is where they get experience.. every item they make, every item they sell, every transaction, and just time passed.
Again, no more just running off and killing random things for gold or grind. You only gain experience and advance of you take a necessary job. This makes a persistent world.
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The problem with that, is Christianity is a relatively new religion to the people in that particular region of the world. No no, don't get yourself in a tizzy... Christianity did not exist before Christ... or are you saying that it was sheer luck that he happened to bear the last name that is the corner stone of the name of the religion that holds him in such High Esteem?
So these are people who as a people, have lived in that area before Christ was an itch in Big Daddy's pants (assuming that God wears pants). Trying to use *THAT* Religion as the determining factor in this, is like throwing Napalm over your house to make it fire-proof.
And some FYI to others that may read this... Romans used the term Palestine in reference to the very same region now referred to as Palestine. So the idea of Palestinian land dates back MUCH further than late 19th/early 20th century as some have suggested here. The Muslim Presence in Jerusalem began in the 7th century with the Arab conquest of Jerusalem. Oh, and also, as I've read here, apparently since they continue to fight, these people are accused of loving violence over food and over their children. Well, Christians must LOATHE their children, after rounding up 35,000 of them between the 4th and 5th Crusades and sending them off to fight a war. Of course, there was no Children's crusade, because those children were sold into slavery long before they ever got to the Holy Land. So neither side has clean hands in this. Not the participants, nor the observers.
maybe rather than the rest of the world being happy they built the corporate jet for the Fat American businessman, the rest of the world should be happy they have a job that Americans might jump at the chance to do. You aren't the only one who is unhappy that 95% of the American population works to support the other 5%. I'm just grateful there is someone who makes more money than I do, that can afford to pay me to fix their shit. If it was building jets for rich fat cats, as long as there is a paycheck and I'm not directly contributing to some crime... I'm good.
Can you point out exactly where I showed you that the world was better off without you? Or can you only prove that you have no intention to ever actually learn anything, and only intend to make an ass of yourself?
What are you talking about? If Lori Drew had not done what she had done, and girl had not died, Lori Drew would never have been arrested, regardless of how many times she signed up at Myspace with fake names and information.
Hello?
She was charged with the crime she was charged with because the prosecution went with the policy... if you can't get them for the bigger crime, get them for the lesser crime. At the very least get them. Again, if she had not committed the greater crime, she would not face the charges for the lesser crime... else there would already be FAR more people in jail right now for signing up to Myspace with false information.
Al Capone was convicted for the lesser crime of Tax Evasion because the prosecution knew they could convict him of that. He escape prosecution for the greater crimes that he committed, not because he didn't do them, but because legally, there was not enough evidence to convict without having it overturned on appeal. You can't argue that just because you cannot successfully prosecute someone, they must not have committed the crime.
Lori Drew is guilty of causing the death of an impressionable child who was not quite old enough to understand life and responsibility and consequence. She abused her position as a parent and an adult, and maliciously manipulated a child into killing herself. Just because the prosecution could not convict her of this, does not mean she did not do this. You can't use the Jersey Defense here, that Everything is legal as long as you don't get caught.
So you fear for your ability to sign up for online services under a fake name. If you plan on performing malicious acts, you SHOULD be fearful.
Wow... what a way to justify your own inappropriate actions... to throw out a blanket policy that Everyone has harassed someone to the point of regretting it, just so you feel better about the times that YOU did it in the past.
So, how does it feel to be wrong? I mean, you are sure that everyone here has harassed someone to a point where they might have felt bad about it. I've never done that. I know others that have never done that. This makes you wrong. Don't even bother to argue that... you said everyone. I'm part of that Everyone, and I'm here. Some of us actually take responsibility for our actions, and the words that come out of our mouths. Some of us think about what we say before we say it, and if we say biting things, we mean to be biting. I understand that this is a foreign concept to you. Don't argue that it's not a foreign concept to you either. You've already proven that you need to be reminded how much words can hurt someone. That means you forget how much words can hurt people. That means you don't always think about what you say. That means that you don't take responsibility for what you say. That means the concept of ALWAYS thinking before you speak and ALWAYS taking responsibility for your words and actions is a foreign concept.
Lori Drew knew full well what she was doing was malicious. She just thought nothing was wrong with what she was doing. She thought her actions were correct for HER and her life. She just did not put any real thought to what she was doing. She enjoyed being mean to that child, and she enjoyed making that child's life hell. Then she applied her own twisted morality to it, and thought, "Aww, what a baby... can't take the heat."
Well, this woman got off light. I say an Eye for an Eye. I say that if you want to teach people to take responsibility, you must show them that this kind of behavior will not be tolerated. Execute her. I don't really care if people think that is absurd or too harsh. If people do not fear and respect the consequences, they will continue to behave badly. Lori Drew's punishment should be so harsh that she not only never EVER wants to act that way again, but that she should spend her remaining life making amends... considering her actions already cost someone else (someone who was not fully developed enough to realize their potential and understand life) her life. Lori Drew's life should be forfeit. Ok. Maybe not Executed. Maybe a lifetime of public service helping kids with self-esteem issues.
Just an FYI... anyone with a Wii can be playing NES games. Most of the NES titles are available as extras that can be downloaded to the console with a net connection. Miss that old 3 level Donky Kong? Download it. Have a Yearning for Castlevania? Download it. Then sit back, turn your Wii controller sideways, and play.
wow.
Isn't that typical. Find anyone or anything else to blame, aside from the actual culprit. I mean, these kids see movies like Hackers, they learn that it is indeed a crime, then they disregard THAT lesson, and only take away from it the fact that if they protect the world from disaster by only doing good with their hacking, they can get the Pretty Girl at the end?
I don't buy it. Nope. Because Hackers is full, from beginning to end, that Hacking is Bad/Illegal/Criminal. So the only thing that movies are guilty of, is not doing a good enough job of teaching kids that criminal activities lead to jail.
People are responsible for their own actions.
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Riiiight...
and there's no reason to remind people of what's currently going on in the world... because everyone regularly proves that they will remember it all, guaranteed.
Oh... and no reason to go after the person who creates the virus. Only the person who uses it against others.
No reason to go after the guy who makes pipe bombs either. Just the guy who uses them.
No reason to go after the guy who makes the full-auto conversion kits. Just the guy who applies them to the off-the-shelf weapon.
No reason to go after the guy who makes the fake passports. Just the guy who uses one.
Oh, and why stop at the creator of the windows API? Why not go after the inventor of the computer? {/sarcasm}
I did hear that reference twice before I saw the SNL clip... but since I was setting up 4 desktops every day in the back of a coffee shop in Tallahassee, more people benefited from my homelessness than from making fun of it.
If you consider...
UCLA received 55,000+ applications last year... and each carried with it a $60 non-refundable fee. That means in just application fees alone, $3.3 million dollars came in to UCLA. Now, if UCLA is spending $100k on fighting file sharing... I guess that means they only got $3.2 million profit off those applications.
Now, if it were more of a bumpkin school that only charged $25 per application... the first 4000 applicants would pay for this.
From my year+ of being homeless and living in a van...
I used a deep cell battery (I'll need to check the amp rating, but it started that Ford E250 with that 298 quite easily) and a 700 watt inverter. I was able to run that inverter for a few hairs over 2 hours before I needed to start the van to recharge the battery. Any more than say two and a half hours, and the charge was too low to turn over the van's engine.
Now, you aren't talking about a 700 watt inverter. You are not talking about a deep cell battery either. However, two or three deep cell batteries and a smaller inverter should last quite a while.
Jailbreaking is voids the warranty. Installing Apps from a source other than Google on an Android does not. If you have to go through a procedure that only few people can do (and from the large number of people on Yahoo Answers that cannot properly "jailbreak" their iPhone, don't argue that it's easy) and you risk damaging your phone where you have to go buy a new one, just to install applications that aren't made by the company that sells the phone... then it cannot be compared to the ease with which the Android was DESIGNED to enable adding third party applications.
So sure. Anything is possible. That doesn't translate to "anything" being right.
The spiders did it for me... chittering, fast as all fsck, and hard to kill... at least a shotgun shot or a few bullets made a monkey go bye bye.
SS2 was and is Awesome, for getting scared by a video game.
I'll try to make this simple, and I'll even use a car analogy.
You loan your car to a friend.
Your friend loses the keys.
Does this mean you are guilty of losing the keys? Absolutely not.
You may be guilty of loaning your car to an idiot, but you did not lose the keys.
Now, I understand you want to emphasize the incompetence of the British Ministry of Defense. However, it has already been established that *they* lost nothing. Get over it. Get off it.
Congratulations. You just quoted Wired Magazines summary of the entire 10 year history of Google in 6 bullet points.
There. Fixed that for ya.
I mean, the page you linked to, does dub itself as Google's 10th birthday.
Well, I do tend to purchase clothes from Goodwill as much as I buy clothes new. I also get around by a bicycle and a diesel vehicle. Now, I was using straight used cooking oil and homemade biodiesel, until in 2006 a man in South Carolina was charged with Failure to pay the Fuel Tax for making his own biodiesel... although the fine was suspended because the judge did not want to give the impression that seeking alternative fuel sources was a bad thing. Can't find the article I read back then, but here is a similar link... http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/03/illinois_man_fi.php and a related link http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d08_1181765099
And I rent. From the home owner.... on their family land. You got me on the tools, but i guess I could spend more time in the barn with the forge and anvil leaning how to be a blacksmith... it's just so damn hot back there.
The horses and pigs supply the manure we use for fertilizer. Good soil here though... in the part of the country where just about everyone grew their own tobacco as their cash crop.
I know we aren't self sufficient. I know I can be if pressed. And I don't see the people in power doing anything to repair the economy. I only see them doing what they can to maintain a status quo for the upper class.
No taxation without representation. It is what the country was started for... among other things. Our current government does not represent me, but I'm paying my taxes none the less. No desire to go to jail and avoid paying taxes that way.
Your guess would be wrong, and there is no connection between people who grow their own vegetables, and people who don't pay taxes.
I don't own any bonds. I don't have any investments. I don't even own a credit card. So, why should I be contributing to keeping AIG alive?
Now, in a related note, I also can't get a mortgage. Been rejected. Why are the tax dollars I pay being used to keep Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac alive? Let's see. I apply to purchase a house and get a mortgage... where if accepted my money would provide a house. Now, these companies get my money anyway, except I don't get the house.
Maybe it is time for the entire world's financial industry to take a massive hit.
I'll continue to grow my own vegetables, thanks.
it is true that so many people insist that the music industry already owns and controls radio. I personally believe it is an ongoing crusade on their part.
I believe it is trying to destroy all of internet Radio. As has been pointed out, as late as 2005, Sony BMG was fined millions for payola to radio stations, "encouraging" them to play what THEY wanted played. http://www.globalethics.org/newsline/2005/08/01/sony-bmg-fined-for-payola-to-the-tune-of-10-million/
Pandora offers the individual listener the potential of having music served to them that their algorithm determines should be a good match. Pandora listeners have the option of tweaking that selection with an "I like" or an "I don't like" vote. However, a Pandora listener can just as easily populate their playlist with only specific songs that THEY want to listen to.
Traditional radio/satellite radio offers all listeners the same songs. The only choices are to change the station and hope for the best, or turn the radio off. You have to accept what you are handed. Radio stations create rotations... Pop, Heavy, Medium, Light...etc. Songs in the POPular rotation get played the most often, over and over, until they get relegated to the Heavy rotation. Songs in the heavy rotation get played more often than those in medium rotation, and those in medium... well you get the picture. What I think should be in Heavy rotation does not necessarily match what you think should be in heavy rotation. But here's a little insight for you, from my 4 years as an FM DJ. The songs in the different rotations, get their rotation designation from the music director of the station, based on what HE thinks the rotation should be. He bases his decision on things like Bilboard top 100, requests, and even his or her personal preference. Which brings us back to Traditional radio/Satellite radio is a controlled medium, where someone is deciding what is popular and what is not, and passing that info down to you.
What is the connection to the music Industry trying to destroy all of internet radio? Are you familiar with the popular media player called VLC? http://www.videolan.org/ and give it a try. Did you know that it keeps a list of internet radio stations that you can pick and choose from? If you downloaded it (or already have it), start it up. From the top menu, hit view, and open the playlist. From the Playlist, hit Manage, and look at Services Directory. We are only interested in Shoutcast Radio Listings. There are currently 397 internet radio stations in that list. The number will vary as some are very amateur, and some are essential commercial. All are considered internet radio. The Music industry cannot exert a controlling influence over all of them to make them play what they would wish. When all you need is add a plugin to your Winamp player to turn your music collection into a Shoutcast Radio station, how can the music industry exert control over you? What they can do, is track you down by your IP address (just like a movie thief), contact you through your ISP, and have you fined for not paying for the music you play... until you make the choice THEY want, which is you see that it costs you more than you get out of having your own radio station.
The music industry not only wants their dollar. They want the old days back where they decided what was hot and what was not, and they want to get back to those days of serving up their choices in music to the public.
So let me get this straight. The Rolling Stones write and record "Start Me up" prior to 1975. They release it three times, twice in collections, and finally in 1981. It is their misfortune that it will be in demand by Microsoft for their Windows 95 marketing campaign? What... because they didn't have the "foresight" to hold of on releasing it so less than 14 years would pass? THis song is still in demand by people. It is considered a signature piece representative of Keith Richards. It is still used to open shows. You might even say it is Quintessential Rolling Stones.
According to you, the Rolling Stones should be screwed blued and tattooed, because a company large enough to put the most recognizable portion of that song into every home three times a day (or included with the damn OS) didn't actually have a demand for the song until after you think the copyright should have run out.
No.
The Rolling Stones created it. They deserve to get paid for it. It was an investment of time and effort. Everyone deserves to get paid for their investments. Sorry, but I don't hold that after a short limit of time, your investment becomes worth nothing. I'm not talking about taking cheese and sticking it in the fridge and calling it an investment. That song is like money in the bank and should always be treated as such for the creators' (not the creators' estates). You put money in the bank, and after 20 years, it doesn't become public money. Maybe it should become public money after the investor dies, to follow the old adage "You can't take it with you".
But you never know when something is going to be in demand. Some company like Microsoft should never be able to go "Jackpot! I can use that formerly copyrighted material in this marketing campaign, I can make millions because it is still popular, I won't have to pay a dime for it, AND the artists who made it is still alive to see me make millions off their work." According to you, this is exactly what should have happened.
I can tell you've never worked hard at anything in your life. I can tell you've never created anything with the fruit of your own imagination. And I can tell you'd lie to try to tell me otherwise.
I'm glad to see you point out holes in this theory... because those holes also apply to IT professionals. By that, I mean the IT Pro who is constantly finding security holes in something a programmer spent hundreds of hours designing, *should* feel good about how he is working to make something better... not only better for the programmer, but for everyone who is going to use that software. The IT security expert who has to hack into systems to learn how to protect against hackers, *should* feel good for the same reasons.
And as far as cops and military personnel not feeling happy... isn't it bad that our protection isn't very happy about the job they are doing? How can they do an effective job if they dislike their job? It makes them not want to be there, it makes them sloppy, and it makes them care less about the quality of the job they are doing. I don't want *that* cop on the beat.
Wouldn't cops and military personnel also be extremely unhappy as well, based on this?
Wouldn't people who work in demolitions, tearing down buildings, be very unhappy?
Wouldn't this mean that anyone working in a job that had a potential negative impact on others, also be very unhappy? I mean with gas prices what they are, isn't the guy working at the gas station feeling miserable, because people hate paying as much as they are for gas, and he is the front-line representative seeing these reactions?
I just got back from 2045 in my Ubuntu controlled time machine...
Solaris is the only OS in use.
Apparently MS could not comply with the federally mandated "No Home without a Computer" program, which was necessary with the abolishment of Congress in favor with what was dubbed "Cell Phone Democracy". In order for every citizen to be able to vote on issues, every person needed a cell phone. In 2032, every citizen was issued a cell phone, or credited for their existing one, providing that their individual unit could interface with a home computer. This meant that every home needed to have a computer. MS refused to supply an OS at cost, arguing that their $499 sticker price for an internet based OS was a bargain.
Linux continued to grow a fraction of a step multiple times per day, but never completely left their idea behind that they could make an OS work on any hardware, as long as it was installed properly, and that the user picked the right boot loader (Grub and LILO are still the only two main choices... for software). With the birth of the AIOS (Advanced Input Output System), both Grub and LILO were now obsolete, but Linux developers refused to let go of these loaders, arguing "This AI thing isn't Open Source, and we'll make it comply!"
Solaris embraced the AIOS and net boot concept, developing a three stage OS that would start with the IOS (initial Operating System, distributed freely on a PinkyNail drive) which users would log into via DNA sampling and retinal scanning, followed by the DemocratOS which would connect to their cell phone, and finally by the CUOS (common user Operating System) for general use. Java apparently is not dead, and is in fact living quite comfortably these days.
Sorry guys. I guess Zemlin might have dropped the ball...
I suppose you can remove the grind altogether, unless it is related to the story and plot.
First, players must check a job board... things they can do to earn Experience. If "Good Characters" choose to walk the outer wall at a protected town, they earn experience for their time. If there is an attack during that time, or of there are "monsters" to kill from the wall with distance weapons, they earn more experience. On the opposite side of that, if "Evil" characters check their job boards, they might be able to siege this town, for experience. To ensure that the town has people guarding it, the job board might not even present jobs other than guard duty, until a minimum number of guards are on the wall.
THere could be three main camps insteaf og two. SO no more Alliance/Hoarde... but now White/Grey/Black... Good/Neutral/Evil where the neutral job board would depend on balancing what's not being done on either side.
your job board has a quest to rescue a computer controlled character? Great. There could be a job board request to go and kidnap a character. People could take jobs as the bartender or stable master, or weapon smith (if they build those skills... bar tending school in a fantasy game lol) and this is where they get experience.. every item they make, every item they sell, every transaction, and just time passed.
Again, no more just running off and killing random things for gold or grind. You only gain experience and advance of you take a necessary job. This makes a persistent world.