[quote]From Kingwood TX (just north of Houston) Power back on, internet access established. Spent the day cleaning the block. Life is good. [/quote] Same thing going on here except without the power (running a generator).
I think this pairs off well. http://www.cracked.com/article_16196_7-commandments-all-video-games-should-obey.html
WOOOO made it through Ike! I'm not in a costal town by the way I'm about 60 miles inland but we still got winds packing in at 80mph. In case your wondering I'm using a wireless card, we haven't lost cellphone signals even tho we have no power.
http://www.cracked.com/article_16583_5-scientific-experiments-most-likely-end-world.html Best article on the subject. In my opinon anyways.
Worse yet we could have that rap about the hadron collider wind up becoming the next "Numa Numa" or the next Macarena,...........God help us all
I don't belive it to be the end of the world in the sense that everyone thinks it would be. Worst possible thing that could probably happen would be to have our understanding of physics turned on its head. You know, something rrrreeeeaaaaallllllllyyyyyyyy unexplainable happening like having the Standard model of particle physics getting proven wrong. Or having the Higgs Boson turn out wrong or discovering wacky circus stuff happening that would raise more questions
[quote]Wolfenstein 3d But I don't remember if Hitler appeared in the original Wolf 3d or the Spear of Destiny.[/quote] *Warning about to show just how old I am* In the original he was the final boss at the end of the 3rd campaign. Spear of Destiny was the expansion/sequel where they "the bad guys" we going to use the spear in connection with supernatural forces to revive Hitler and take over the world........O yeah nerdy
I love cracked.com Some of my favorite articles, The 5 Scientific Experiments Most Likely to End the World 5 Innovative Ways the Gaming Industry is Screwing You 7 People From Around the World With Real Mutant Superpowers The 9 Most Badass Bible
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So I was reading all the information presented to me in the forums, and first i would like to thank those who helped shake me from alot of misconceptions I had before. But I would like to submit a question. Due to the massive limitations/obstacles presented by our current understanding of physics. And not just physics, you also have to take into account human endurance, recources, basicly everything we take for granted in our atmosphere. Would it be easier, p
Did anyone read the articles on the "secular trading" of oil? man thats some scary stuff.
I JUST WANT TO MAKE MY PHONE CALL! Rest in peace Heath Ledger.
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I can't remember where I saw it, but what about using guided metorites as seige weapons? Its no diffrent than throwing stones really, but you could throw a few stones ranging from the size of houses to the size of Texas if you wanted.
Recently colonized a world only to forget I had left my Novalith cannon in the other star system on auto fire. Had the last AI on thier last world with no ships bombing them. I then donated 10,000 credits to them. The AI response? "Thank you, is there more where that came from?"
Cthulhu Tho not exactly in movie format that does him justice, By far the baddest of the bad.
[quote]Not so much--TWC is tying the transfer quotas to the speed tiers. So you can get fast and (comparably, but still low by any sane standard) high cap, or slow and low cap. It rather annoys me since if they take it national, it means my prices are liable to go up. Hopefully the backlash is enough in Texas that they don't. I expect, as do many, that file sharing is just a scapegoat in that particular case. They're likely just doing it to try and make a bit of extra cash while not hav
Well I will allways belive that banning pirates from the internet is justified. I do not belive there ever will be a true "silver bullet" solution to the problem. As long as there is a demand for it, pirated software will allways be available no matter what. Handling it case by case would be best. One thing I think would have a large impact is what Time Warner is now doing in my area. Not only are you just paying for internet service now, the service plans are becomin
[quote]And my 2 cents on it is, you can't put kids who download music and movies, in jail with hardened criminals.[/quote] I don't belive you should put children in prison either, but such things shouldn't go unpunished. Its a crime yes but I don't think its one that should be one that lands you in prison on a first offense. 3 strike laws make sense. If you repeat the offense, the punishment for doing it should go up with each offense. If a youth ends up doing it enough that it lands th
[quote]The difference here is that you aren't losing money if there was none to begin with. You may have a point if the person would have bought it anyways, but if they wouldn't, then they don't lose money, since the cost of producing that copy is near zero.[/quote] The cost is still there, cost is to the financial world, as heat is to the physics world. You can't destroy it. Minimizing doesn't get rid of it, it still costs the publisher. [quote]Take for example t
[quote]Now, in the realm of software and digital media, your supply is infinite, and the marginal cost per unit is near zero. I don't consider piracy theft, because as has been stated many times before, you aren't taking something away from the owner.[/quote] Yes you are, Its called MONEY
[quote]This reminds me of a particular conundrum of mine. Let's say you are at a burger place and someone orders a burger with no cheese and lettuce, but messed up and gave the person a burger with lettuce. Upon realizing their mistake, they proceed to throw it away. Here's where another one might ask if they could have the burger if it was going to be thrown away anyways. However, the burger person doesn't want to do that, because he's afraid that if he gives the burger to that person, that
If you had the ability to download the game directly from the publisher, taxes would then come into account. If I bought something abroad, even downloading I get hit with service fees to cover the exchange of money. The goverment will get it taxes sure enough. Having to wait months for games to be released in your region sucks. Having to pay the extra ammount for the importing of goods to your country sucks to. I doesn't make it ok to aquire them through illegal meens
[quote]I said "download a game you couldn't have bought" (or paid for) And i add, is it theft when you couldn't have bought it either even if you wanted? Cause i mean, over here games tend to arrive over 3 months later so if there's no way to get it paying, it can't be called stealing... Another grey area: Imagine I could have bought a digital distribution from the US, but cannot buy a digital distribution or physical copy where i live (and pay the adequate taxes to my
Yes, unless you paid the publisher in order to download it.
http://supreme.justia.com/us/473/207/ This is a case that went before the U.S. Supreme Court The defendant used the arguement that copyright infringement (piracy) was not theft in itself. The Supreme Court ruled that under the law, piracy and theft, the terms are interchangeable.
[quote]The problem is many people, including myself, make no distinction between stealing a ditigal product and a physical product. In either case, you are taking something without consent. In my opinion, the penalty for the theft of digital product should be slightly less than that of physical product - but that difference should only account for the logistics and packaging required to shelf the product.[/quote] Your right about that, people have a hard time with the concept of theft o