Sorry, my sentence was a little backwards, but those are the windows games I'm playing. I also have an Xbox 360 which I bought used, and whose optical drive I have replaced. I bought it on the theory that it hasn't RROD'd yet even though it's old. SFSG.

These arguments are hypocritical. If Florida really believed the shit they said to stop this development, then more than half the development in Florida would have never happened. But let's face it, Florida is a warm storage facility for dying people that most of us are hoping (secretly or not) will get wiped out by some sort of massive wave, and their primary exports are citrus (better from Mexico anyway) and bad legislation.

I have nothing against vilifying specific groups by name, on either side, if they deserve vilification. Libertarians are those who want police protection from their slaves (and are sure they'll be on the enslaving side.) Teabaggers don't even know what that means. I have lots of things to say about hippies too, if you want to hear more negativity. I grew up in Santa Cruz, so I am more intimately acquainted with their smells than I would like.

Well, if you're convinced, then I'm convinced. baa! baa!

The fact is that the natives who lived in the pacific northwest had successful land management practices. They had rules for who could fish where and how much, they set fires yearly when moving between their summer and winter grounds which kept down the brush including poison oak, and they were able to subsist primarily on hunting and gathering because their land management was so very successful and the land so rich. Predictably, ol' whitey fucked it all up for them. First he murdered them wholesale, notably in the form of the U.S. 1st. Cavalry killing every man, woman, and child on an island in the lake (one of the larger settlements) in revenge for deeds by a distinctly different band of Pomo. Then he destroyed their way of life by attrition, granting their land to others and then paying them a dollar per tree planted to rip out the oaks and install black walnut. You can't live on walnuts alone, but you can live on acorns.

The point here is that humans are capable of responsible land management, the problem is which humans are chosen to make the decisions. Baa! Baa!

I suppose you've been out to the site and taken a nice broad range of soil samples, then brought them home and analyzed them? Because military bases of all kinds have a tendency to become superfund sites because of decades of disposal of hazardous chemicals involving burying barrels or simply dumping things out in back of the shop.

It's a nice idea, but it doesn't work that way for several reasons. One of them is that when someone walks away and leaves a housing development it doesn't just vanish. Another is that there's always impact from the construction that you can't simply wish away.

What kind of torture did you use on this sentence? Waterboarding? Thumbscrews?

850 sq. ft? That's okay for one person, or a young couple that doesn't own anything yet, but it's cramped for anyone else. Oh, it might be okay for small people. But not the average 'merican.

Speaking for myself, I'm not living in a city again until they abolish cars. Cars are what make cities suck.

Not me, I'm still playing the old games because they new ones are shit, like in the case of Civ IV or Simcity IV.

Well, when the alien YHWH created them, they had nanotechnological mechanisms to prevent the inbreeding from becoming a problem. They were passed down generationally until eventually there was a break in the process. This led to the tradition of consuming corpses, to gain their remaining nanobots...

BECAUSE... ALIENS. No, I don't believe any of this stuff, but it would make a cool story. It's more creative than nine tenths of what's coming out of hollywood anyway :p

I agree with you on all points, but a delay is not a reasonable concern because we're just talking about additional safeties at this point. Either the gun fires or it doesn't. That's not going to be a concern until we go to caseless, and even then the gun can still be designed in the same basic way, but with electronic safeties rather than mechanical ones. By the same token, though, I don't want to involve even electricity with anything on my gun except additional targeting systems or other tacticool gadgetry because it's not necessary. It doesn't make any sense until you need a battery in the gun just to fire it.

You have got it precisely. Indeed, there is in fact no need whatsoever for centralized control of anything save perhaps IP address allocation. Each nation ought to be solely responsible for the details of implementation within their borders, and each nation can decide whether it wants to accept traffic directly from each other nation, or whether their citizens will have to do some tunneling (and perhaps break some laws) in order to access those addresses. It's nobody else's business.

If those facilities, offices, and data centers are owned by the American company, then perhaps Germany should be looking into laws which permit that instead of trying to make other nations' corporations behave by their laws. You can't even _do_ that in China, you have to partner with a Chinese firm to even have that kind of presence there. If Germany wants that level of control, perhaps they should institute it.

There's no inherent need to permit a foreign corporation to own land and an effective business; force them to incorporate in Germany, in which case they can be regulated. If they haven't already, in which case they can be regulated, and this whole conversation is stupid. But it's stupid anyway, because this is what corporations do, and it makes more sense to control them from that angle.

That's a load of dingo's kidneys. It has been shown repeatedly that Green Revolution farming does not increase yields. As compared to USDA Organic, which is total fucking bullshit, maybe. The biggest fundamental problem is that we are throwing away poop which should be returned to the fields after composting.

Probably pretty easy. And really they only need to make a good-faith effort to keep EU data within the EU. But as you say, they really would have to be separate entities for this to work. There's just no way otherwise to avoid nations applying pressure to get their way.

And then you would still be in a position of reinventing things which people do all the time which are provided by Javascript.

C is cool, C is great, C is wonderful, C does not serve all purposes and it probably never will. But never say never.

The truth, though, is that now that the scope of the impact has been publicized, corporations who already knew that data they shared with U.S. corporations was being Hoovered into the government's databases are now having to deal with the backlash from their customers.

Exactamente.