Whoog - 28 July 2007
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silveradeptDidn’t spend today doing much for productive material, but I dd knock off a few more Final Fantasy XII hunts and make a plot to make sure that I go crash a particular opponent’s party at a specific level (49, for the curious), and wondering how much optional content I should be going after and how much I should just decide to go forward with the story. I think I’ve already made it to sixty hours, and I’m probably only into the second major arc of the story, as I’ve been cleaning up much of the optional content. At some point, I’ll probably just break out a large story segment and then go back to dealing with the optional content.
Suffice it to say, since I am spending large amounts of my time playing console games, I am not yet employed, nor have I heard a whispering of the possibility that this may be so. As such, I continue to hope that I will be able to defeat statistical odds and find employment. The 27th was National Scotch Day, by the way. Anyone need a drink? No? Maybe you will after reading the accounts of a Spanish judge who ordered a lesbian mother to find a male partner or give up her daughters. and the college football star who had to hire security for his wedding, because people threatened him and his wife's lives for engaging in an interracial marriage. In the first case, it’s been said that the judge is under investigation
Turning to other matters, then, Second Life continues to take on aspects of first life, including Jesuit missionaries spreading Catholicism. Which could make for some interesting discussions as to whether any god holds sway and can influence the virtual realm. But if Seoncd Life is supposed to reflect the first life, this is natural progression. If it’s supposed to be a place where one can do things that first life would never allow, then it might be an unnecessary grounding of the place. Of course, with people like Bruno Madoox, who think contemporary science fiction doesn't matter, using Michael Crichton’s career as an example of how much the genre was lively and then died, who would need such flights of imagination. To Maddox, science fiction has served its purpose in building our current society and should accept its obsolescence gracefully. I wonder if he’s read any good science fiction lately.
Going elsewhere, the United States government may subpoena Michael Moore about his trip to Cuba in "Sicko", in so much as he may have violated the United States’s long-standing embargo on U.S. citizens visiting Cuba. Moore claims not to have broken any laws. And as far as I know, disseminating the following information from a former drug cop about how to avoid being arrested if marijuana is in your possession doesn’t do so, either. Whether any of it actually works, I don’t know. Your mileage may vary. And probably will. Considering, though, that someone can be arrested for having "too many" of a drug that he has a prescription for, I wouldn’t put that much stock in any part of drug laws or any method on how to avoid them.
I need to brush up on my flag display rules/laws again. As far as I know, hanging the flag upside-down is a distress signal, and legal to do. I’m not entirely sure whether pinning something to said flag counts as a desecration thereof. I’m inclined to say it will fall on the side of desecration, though. Anyway, such a pinned, upside-down flag is the centerpiece for an account that claims a police officer broke into a private residence and arrested the couple there after they removed the potentially offending flag and took it back inside, on the grounds that the couple would not produce their identification for the officer when asked. I’m also a bit fuzzy on what grounds an officer can actually require someone to produce identification. Either way, a lot of these accounts seem to have a common ground of the officers resorting to force where it doesn’t appear force was needed.
Hugh Hewitt, underneath much denouncement of the anti-war segment of the population, actually makes a reasonable suggestion - when Petraeus reports in September, play it uninterrupted and unedited for as long as he needs to make his executive summary. That will give everyone an idea of what the ground general thinks, and will be more than enough for supporters to point their fingers at the anti-war advocates and say “See! Victory! All planned out right there!” and for the anti-war crowd to say “Pipe dreams! It’ll take thirty years, not six months, to achieve that!” In this case, though, it will be on what was said, not what is conjectured to be said. Now, were the conflict to be stopped before the General is slated to make his report, then this becomes moot. I don’t see that happening, however.
For those wondering just how many executive orders there have been in various presidencies, the Federation of American Scientists offers an index of executive orders. I’m not sure if it’s complete, but it covers most of the recent ones, which is where the current fracas tend to reside. It also makes mention where you can find the full text of the Executive Orders in the United States Code (Title 3), should you want to see the exact wording.
Soon after Mr. Bush had an examination for polyps, Mr. Cheney will undergo a procedure to replace his pacemaker battery. I’m sure there are plenty of people who wish Mr. Cheney well on his procedure. There may be an equal number of people who wish for complications in the procedure, but I’m sure that the doctors will return him to us alive, whether we want him back or not.
If you have $250,000 U.S. or more and would like to get some face and influence time with the Democratic or Republican candidates, consider a donation to help sponsor their conventions, have private golf or other outings with them, or set up talks in your industry for them to attend. Because our public office candidates and political parties are always happy to hear whatever big donors and corporate overseers have to say.
Last for tonight, Ars Technica has a look at deep packet inspection, a tool that allows for both the monitoring and shaping of Internet traffic at the provider and backbone level. DPI devices can look even at the contents of packets crossing their paths, in both directions, just in case a government entity requests that information, and have the power to decide that Youtube traffic is of lowest priority, if it manages to get through at all. Net neutrality can easily be subverted by DPI devices and then have content providers held hostage by the distribution network’s tolls. Imagine paying your Wow subscription and an extra fee to your ISP so that you can actually play it.
Anyway, it’s far too late for me to still be up doing things, but here I am. G’night, everybody.
Suffice it to say, since I am spending large amounts of my time playing console games, I am not yet employed, nor have I heard a whispering of the possibility that this may be so. As such, I continue to hope that I will be able to defeat statistical odds and find employment. The 27th was National Scotch Day, by the way. Anyone need a drink? No? Maybe you will after reading the accounts of a Spanish judge who ordered a lesbian mother to find a male partner or give up her daughters. and the college football star who had to hire security for his wedding, because people threatened him and his wife's lives for engaging in an interracial marriage. In the first case, it’s been said that the judge is under investigation
Turning to other matters, then, Second Life continues to take on aspects of first life, including Jesuit missionaries spreading Catholicism. Which could make for some interesting discussions as to whether any god holds sway and can influence the virtual realm. But if Seoncd Life is supposed to reflect the first life, this is natural progression. If it’s supposed to be a place where one can do things that first life would never allow, then it might be an unnecessary grounding of the place. Of course, with people like Bruno Madoox, who think contemporary science fiction doesn't matter, using Michael Crichton’s career as an example of how much the genre was lively and then died, who would need such flights of imagination. To Maddox, science fiction has served its purpose in building our current society and should accept its obsolescence gracefully. I wonder if he’s read any good science fiction lately.
Going elsewhere, the United States government may subpoena Michael Moore about his trip to Cuba in "Sicko", in so much as he may have violated the United States’s long-standing embargo on U.S. citizens visiting Cuba. Moore claims not to have broken any laws. And as far as I know, disseminating the following information from a former drug cop about how to avoid being arrested if marijuana is in your possession doesn’t do so, either. Whether any of it actually works, I don’t know. Your mileage may vary. And probably will. Considering, though, that someone can be arrested for having "too many" of a drug that he has a prescription for, I wouldn’t put that much stock in any part of drug laws or any method on how to avoid them.
I need to brush up on my flag display rules/laws again. As far as I know, hanging the flag upside-down is a distress signal, and legal to do. I’m not entirely sure whether pinning something to said flag counts as a desecration thereof. I’m inclined to say it will fall on the side of desecration, though. Anyway, such a pinned, upside-down flag is the centerpiece for an account that claims a police officer broke into a private residence and arrested the couple there after they removed the potentially offending flag and took it back inside, on the grounds that the couple would not produce their identification for the officer when asked. I’m also a bit fuzzy on what grounds an officer can actually require someone to produce identification. Either way, a lot of these accounts seem to have a common ground of the officers resorting to force where it doesn’t appear force was needed.
Hugh Hewitt, underneath much denouncement of the anti-war segment of the population, actually makes a reasonable suggestion - when Petraeus reports in September, play it uninterrupted and unedited for as long as he needs to make his executive summary. That will give everyone an idea of what the ground general thinks, and will be more than enough for supporters to point their fingers at the anti-war advocates and say “See! Victory! All planned out right there!” and for the anti-war crowd to say “Pipe dreams! It’ll take thirty years, not six months, to achieve that!” In this case, though, it will be on what was said, not what is conjectured to be said. Now, were the conflict to be stopped before the General is slated to make his report, then this becomes moot. I don’t see that happening, however.
For those wondering just how many executive orders there have been in various presidencies, the Federation of American Scientists offers an index of executive orders. I’m not sure if it’s complete, but it covers most of the recent ones, which is where the current fracas tend to reside. It also makes mention where you can find the full text of the Executive Orders in the United States Code (Title 3), should you want to see the exact wording.
Soon after Mr. Bush had an examination for polyps, Mr. Cheney will undergo a procedure to replace his pacemaker battery. I’m sure there are plenty of people who wish Mr. Cheney well on his procedure. There may be an equal number of people who wish for complications in the procedure, but I’m sure that the doctors will return him to us alive, whether we want him back or not.
If you have $250,000 U.S. or more and would like to get some face and influence time with the Democratic or Republican candidates, consider a donation to help sponsor their conventions, have private golf or other outings with them, or set up talks in your industry for them to attend. Because our public office candidates and political parties are always happy to hear whatever big donors and corporate overseers have to say.
Last for tonight, Ars Technica has a look at deep packet inspection, a tool that allows for both the monitoring and shaping of Internet traffic at the provider and backbone level. DPI devices can look even at the contents of packets crossing their paths, in both directions, just in case a government entity requests that information, and have the power to decide that Youtube traffic is of lowest priority, if it manages to get through at all. Net neutrality can easily be subverted by DPI devices and then have content providers held hostage by the distribution network’s tolls. Imagine paying your Wow subscription and an extra fee to your ISP so that you can actually play it.
Anyway, it’s far too late for me to still be up doing things, but here I am. G’night, everybody.
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Date: 2007-07-29 09:32 pm (UTC)....hasn't it already been determined that the sexual orientation of a parent has NO BEARING on the child? Wasn't that one of your papers in Child Dev. that I proofed?
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Date: 2007-07-30 12:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-29 09:42 pm (UTC)How is that possibly illegal, when you are legally allowed to bring a 90 day supply of any medicine you have a prescription for into the country from canada?