She repeatedly mentions she has no interest in a male body (generally when talking to Batou), we also get a couple flashbacks to various points in her past where she is still in a female cyber body.
Don't worry, your fapping is perfectly safe from your homophobic fears:)
Or, the next Windows OS (9, right?) will fix the compatibility issues, toss is a bunch of shiny features, and big business will instantly jump all over it. The "myth of upgrade inevitability" isn't busted in any way. Admittedly I wouldn't call it that. I would call it the "business likes to have the biggest E-Wang", or possibly "business is dumb and vendors are scum", or anything nicely jaded will do.
Man kills 2 burglars. One of them I think was on his property, the other down the street. He had called the cops, hell we know exactly what happened b/c we can hear it all on the 911 call. Exact quote from the 911 call (as far as my memory allows): "I ain't gona let them get away with this" (to the 911 operator who repeatedly told him NOT to go out, cops are on the way) "bang, your DEAD!" (after firing).
He wasn't even indited (aka, it never went to trial, a grand jury decided that there was not enough evidence to try him).
Oh, last little bit?
They didn't break into his house. He saw the breaking in and leaving his neighbors.
To be (sorta) fair. Those M16s were not loaded, and probably for the exact reasoning that you gave.
Too all those avoiding the US, I suggest you come back and give us another shot, after all, where else can you just about double your purchasing power? Admittedly I would suggest the standard I follow when ever I travel: If it doesn't fit in my carry on, it isn't coming.
I remember seeing the book a while ago, and I could swear the name was TANSTAAFL, and I thought it was written (or at least partially written) by Spider Robinson. Unfortunately, further investigation says I am wrong.
IIRC, there was a DBZ game at release that actually did this. I think the basic attacks were done via button presses, however the special moves required you to imitate the character's moves. I never actually played it but it was amusing to watch people try it out at the Nintendo store.
However, I expect that is about as detailed as we will ever see in that line of development. The Wii controls are not nearly as sensitive as would be required to actually map a full set of moves to equivalent movements by the players.
Actually all it requires is for the websites that do not want anonymous postings to require some sort of real life identification. There is no need to centralize this, and Brady didn't say that it needs to be centralized, just that he wants it.
To be perfectly honest I see no problem with this. It is your damn web page, you can run it as you see fit. IF you want only authorized posters then require some sort of identification (CC/Drivers license, SS, what have you), and then ban the sod that breaks your rules. And he is correct, that practice would eliminate the type of people you don't want on your web page, obviously it would also eliminate a large group of people that don't want to share that info/CBA to go through a registration system like that.
Again, his web page, he can do what ever he wants. In fact, the best way to do it for him would be to link it directly to newspaper subscriptions. You want to use our service? You pay us for it. You break the rules? We ban you.
Again, just one way of dealing with user comments, and we are all free to not use his webpage if we don't like it.
no one comments yet on a General's usage of "YGTBKM! LOL!"?
Yes, most of the comments were relatively content free, but a few of them had some interesting tidbits. I mean, I didn't expect him to say "Well, here are our plans, and here are full in depth discussions on some rather sensitive topics". From the position he was coming from, I appreciate that amount he DID say. I think he took the questions seriously and provided those answers he could.
Why don't we set up these polls that will have the hardware on top!
We just need to space them out nice and evenly, and we wouldn't have to worry (as much) about weather effects. Heck, why limit our selves to just just traditional internet access. I bet I could rig up some sort of portable radio that could make use of these polls.
I could call them PollRadios!
Yah! I am going to make MILLIONS!
So, seriously, what is the point of these balloons? I mean, I could see usages for it where you need to saturate an area with radio for a temporary time (for an always on type thing this just sounds way to cost prohibitive). Something like when if you have a manhunt (lost person/criminal/I don't care) going on in a wilderness area you could set up some sort of network with these things so that searchers could be in constant contact, and such.
ISPs are currently not liable for what illegal things their customers do with the service provided. One of the reasonings behind this is that they should not be mining traffic enough to know wth is going on. (IANAL, this is a bad explanation) Comcast says that they SHOULD be mining traffic to shape it and see wth is going on. Comcast should then be held liable for any illegal activities that they 'know' about because of this monitoring.
get it now?
Personally, I don't know if I agree or disagree. Mostly because I don't really understand how much monitoring they are doing, and just what the legal grounds are that protect the ISPs currently.
On the note of them shaping traffic? I have not much of problem with Comcast shaping traffic as they see fit, well, at least now that they admit it. They are a company and can do what ever the hell they want so long as it is with in the law, and does not defraud/mislead customers/potential customers. I will never use their service, but I still think they are allowed to do what they want. Only problem is that many people have no choice, and there it IS a problem.
Yah, but Mike was on OUR side (well, our side being the loonies, as they were the protagonists).
so I see no problem!
However, I have to admit to being amused that everyone references SkyNet, yet no one references The Matrix. yes, I know that The Matrix isn't nearly as geeky as SkyNet, but still.
He doesn't think: 1) Buy movie writes to game 2) Make a movie and attach name. 3) ????? 4) profit. 5) Repeat.
It really is: 1) Buy movie writes to game. 2) Make good movie that is based on best selling game. 3) ponder why every one hates my movie. 4) Challenge and threaten any one who insults my movie. 5) Repeat.
"There are all sorts of lessons in these cases. One is that the border seems be a privacy-free zone. A second is that encryption programs work. A third is that you should keep your password to yourself. And the most important is that you should leave your laptop at home."
Don't forget the one about not being a pedo, I mean, I know, it isn't that obvious, but still, just in case you didn't catch it, don't be a damn pedo.
Honestly, I am not sure how I feel about boarder inspections. Yes, they are important to some degree (it IS illegal to traffic in certain things). However, they should also have a good REASON to search you.
If we accept them doing random stops and searches (I honestly don't know how I feel about this), or if they have good reason to stop and search you, then I have no problem with them searching your laptop as well. They obviously should not keep records of ANYTHING found in there (unless breaking a specific law), however searching a laptop when you are already searching the person/car for somethign that likely could be found on the laptop? why not?
All in all, I dono. It seems a slippery slope problem, but it also seems relatively reasonable (Again, assuming there is a good reason for the search in the first place)
Well, SJ Games never seemed to really want to go into the video game market. However they did pick up UltraCorps from MS a while back (2006), but nothing much has come of it or of their supposed other projects.
Well, an NWN style game is what SR SHOULD have been as a video game, Or at least the easiest one to do.
Admittedly, if you would like to play one, there are some out there (and they are rather good).
Personally I want to see 2 things from the franchise:
1) Standard RPG ala NWN/KotOR/whatever. Let us play what we want, integrate magic and decking and rigging all properly, etc etc. I would prefer if it had multilayer capability (like the NWN ability for one person to run a game for others).
2) A squad based action game. I know, I know, No one actually would ever make this correct, but wouldn't it be awesome?
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She repeatedly mentions she has no interest in a male body (generally when talking to Batou), we also get a couple flashbacks to various points in her past where she is still in a female cyber body.
Don't worry, your fapping is perfectly safe from your homophobic fears :)
Or, the next Windows OS (9, right?) will fix the compatibility issues, toss is a bunch of shiny features, and big business will instantly jump all over it. The "myth of upgrade inevitability" isn't busted in any way. Admittedly I wouldn't call it that. I would call it the "business likes to have the biggest E-Wang", or possibly "business is dumb and vendors are scum", or anything nicely jaded will do.
And the point is:
NOT IN TEXAS!
Man kills 2 burglars. One of them I think was on his property, the other down the street. He had called the cops, hell we know exactly what happened b/c we can hear it all on the 911 call. Exact quote from the 911 call (as far as my memory allows): "I ain't gona let them get away with this" (to the 911 operator who repeatedly told him NOT to go out, cops are on the way) "bang, your DEAD!" (after firing).
He wasn't even indited (aka, it never went to trial, a grand jury decided that there was not enough evidence to try him).
Oh, last little bit?
They didn't break into his house. He saw the breaking in and leaving his neighbors.
Yup!
gotta love Texas law! ...
right?
God I am glad I don't live there.
The ghouls and super mutants probably would like to have a word with you.
To be (sorta) fair. Those M16s were not loaded, and probably for the exact reasoning that you gave.
Too all those avoiding the US, I suggest you come back and give us another shot, after all, where else can you just about double your purchasing power? Admittedly I would suggest the standard I follow when ever I travel: If it doesn't fit in my carry on, it isn't coming.
Hissssss
This is going to drive me batty.
I remember seeing the book a while ago, and I could swear the name was TANSTAAFL, and I thought it was written (or at least partially written) by Spider Robinson. Unfortunately, further investigation says I am wrong.
IIRC, there was a DBZ game at release that actually did this. I think the basic attacks were done via button presses, however the special moves required you to imitate the character's moves. I never actually played it but it was amusing to watch people try it out at the Nintendo store.
However, I expect that is about as detailed as we will ever see in that line of development. The Wii controls are not nearly as sensitive as would be required to actually map a full set of moves to equivalent movements by the players.
Actually all it requires is for the websites that do not want anonymous postings to require some sort of real life identification. There is no need to centralize this, and Brady didn't say that it needs to be centralized, just that he wants it.
To be perfectly honest I see no problem with this. It is your damn web page, you can run it as you see fit. IF you want only authorized posters then require some sort of identification (CC/Drivers license, SS, what have you), and then ban the sod that breaks your rules. And he is correct, that practice would eliminate the type of people you don't want on your web page, obviously it would also eliminate a large group of people that don't want to share that info/CBA to go through a registration system like that.
Again, his web page, he can do what ever he wants. In fact, the best way to do it for him would be to link it directly to newspaper subscriptions. You want to use our service? You pay us for it. You break the rules? We ban you.
Again, just one way of dealing with user comments, and we are all free to not use his webpage if we don't like it.
no one comments yet on a General's usage of "YGTBKM! LOL!"?
Yes, most of the comments were relatively content free, but a few of them had some interesting tidbits. I mean, I didn't expect him to say "Well, here are our plans, and here are full in depth discussions on some rather sensitive topics". From the position he was coming from, I appreciate that amount he DID say. I think he took the questions seriously and provided those answers he could.
wait, I got it!
Why don't we set up these polls that will have the hardware on top!
We just need to space them out nice and evenly, and we wouldn't have to worry (as much) about weather effects. Heck, why limit our selves to just just traditional internet access. I bet I could rig up some sort of portable radio that could make use of these polls.
I could call them PollRadios!
Yah! I am going to make MILLIONS!
So, seriously, what is the point of these balloons? I mean, I could see usages for it where you need to saturate an area with radio for a temporary time (for an always on type thing this just sounds way to cost prohibitive). Something like when if you have a manhunt (lost person/criminal/I don't care) going on in a wilderness area you could set up some sort of network with these things so that searchers could be in constant contact, and such.
The argument here is this:
ISPs are currently not liable for what illegal things their customers do with the service provided.
One of the reasonings behind this is that they should not be mining traffic enough to know wth is going on. (IANAL, this is a bad explanation)
Comcast says that they SHOULD be mining traffic to shape it and see wth is going on.
Comcast should then be held liable for any illegal activities that they 'know' about because of this monitoring.
get it now?
Personally, I don't know if I agree or disagree. Mostly because I don't really understand how much monitoring they are doing, and just what the legal grounds are that protect the ISPs currently.
On the note of them shaping traffic? I have not much of problem with Comcast shaping traffic as they see fit, well, at least now that they admit it. They are a company and can do what ever the hell they want so long as it is with in the law, and does not defraud/mislead customers/potential customers. I will never use their service, but I still think they are allowed to do what they want. Only problem is that many people have no choice, and there it IS a problem.
Yah, but Mike was on OUR side (well, our side being the loonies, as they were the protagonists).
so I see no problem!
However, I have to admit to being amused that everyone references SkyNet, yet no one references The Matrix. yes, I know that The Matrix isn't nearly as geeky as SkyNet, but still.
Sorry, I fail it. That was supposed to be QFG1
:D
However that is awesome news
Because he honestly thinks he makes good movies.
He doesn't think:
1) Buy movie writes to game
2) Make a movie and attach name.
3) ?????
4) profit.
5) Repeat.
It really is:
1) Buy movie writes to game.
2) Make good movie that is based on best selling game.
3) ponder why every one hates my movie.
4) Challenge and threaten any one who insults my movie.
5) Repeat.
You can still pick up the anthology pack that has all of them (well, not the original QFG2, but the remake is better I think).
:D
It is really fun going through from 1-4, and the voice acting that they added to 4 is actually really rather good
I think you missed the point.
We can make a rather convincing Omaha Beech video with only 3 actors.
And we can make the LotR battles with only a few hundred.
But we still needed 30K loud cricket fans to create the SOUND of a pitched battle.
Can we do it with 3?
bah, people need to watch Ave Q more. (ok, so I knew I was gona get modded troll, but it was still worth it :P)
What is that, some kind of Nazi word?
Seriously, stop having fun!
http://xkcd.com/359/
I still fail to see the problem.
Don't you have to first present the person that is infringing on your IP notice to stop before you can sue?
"There are all sorts of lessons in these cases. One is that the border seems be a privacy-free zone. A second is that encryption programs work. A third is that you should keep your password to yourself. And the most important is that you should leave your laptop at home."
Don't forget the one about not being a pedo, I mean, I know, it isn't that obvious, but still, just in case you didn't catch it, don't be a damn pedo.
Honestly, I am not sure how I feel about boarder inspections. Yes, they are important to some degree (it IS illegal to traffic in certain things). However, they should also have a good REASON to search you.
If we accept them doing random stops and searches (I honestly don't know how I feel about this), or if they have good reason to stop and search you, then I have no problem with them searching your laptop as well. They obviously should not keep records of ANYTHING found in there (unless breaking a specific law), however searching a laptop when you are already searching the person/car for somethign that likely could be found on the laptop? why not?
All in all, I dono. It seems a slippery slope problem, but it also seems relatively reasonable (Again, assuming there is a good reason for the search in the first place)
well, except that Earthdawn IS SR.
Ha, I can still out geek you!
Well, SJ Games never seemed to really want to go into the video game market. However they did pick up UltraCorps from MS a while back (2006), but nothing much has come of it or of their supposed other projects.
Well, an NWN style game is what SR SHOULD have been as a video game, Or at least the easiest one to do.
Admittedly, if you would like to play one, there are some out there (and they are rather good).
Personally I want to see 2 things from the franchise:
1) Standard RPG ala NWN/KotOR/whatever. Let us play what we want, integrate magic and decking and rigging all properly, etc etc. I would prefer if it had multilayer capability (like the NWN ability for one person to run a game for others).
2) A squad based action game. I know, I know, No one actually would ever make this correct, but wouldn't it be awesome?