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Wikipedia | Paycheck is a 2003 film adaptation of the short story of the same name by science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. The film was directed by John Woo and stars Ben Affleck, Uma Thurman and Aaron Eckhart. Paul Giamatti and Colm Feore also appear.
Paycheck is Woo's last American film to date.
Michael Jennings is a reverse engineer; for lucrative sums of money, he analyzes his clients' competitors' products and designs new versions that excel above and beyond the original's features. When he finishes the job, he undergoes a memory wipe with help from his friend Shorty. The memory wipe is achieved by computer technology able to scan one's brain and erase whatever must be erased. This ensures that the new product cannot be tracked back to the reverse engineering effort, thereby protecting his client's intellectual property. However, it is a dangerous practice because the erasing machine increases brain temperature at possibly lethal levels. In the movie it seems that brain technology is widely used by private sector and the police too.
Jennings is offered a job from James Rethrick, an old college roommate and CEO of Allcom. Whereas none of Jennings' previous jobs has ever lasted longer than two months (because the memory technology could not go very far through past), Rethrick informs him that this job will take up to three years. Rethrick offers to reward Jennings handsomely in company stock in exchange for what amounts to three years of lost life. Jennings agrees, and is injected with a special radioactive memory marker that will be used to track down how far his memories have to be erased. It is another method for memory wiping without the aid of scanners which "cook" the brain. The drawback is that as a chemical method is not 100% complete. Very little information stil remains in the brain leaving a chance for later recovery. Jennings takes up residence in the highly secure Allcom facility, falling in love with biologist Dr. Rachel Porter during his tenure.
Three years later, Jennings awakens, finding himself in the year 2007 (according to a form in an envelope shown later in the movie). He is congratulated by Rethrick for a successful job, but when he attempts to cash in on his reward he finds that he signed away his shares of Allcom. All that Jennings has to show for his time is an envelope claiming to be his personal possessions that he entered Allcom with three years ago, but instead contains a seemingly random assortment of items. As Jennings tries to figure out what happened, he is captured by the FBI who are concerned over his involvement with Allcom and the connected disappearance and death of physicist William Dekker. Jennings manages to escape their captivity, quickly realizing that each item in the envelope can be used at the right time to keep himself out of the FBI's hands.
Meanwhile, Rethrick is surprised to learn that Jennings managed to escape the FBI, and starts an investigation of how he was able to escape. He discovers that Jennings left a message to Rachel to meet at a cafe that day, and attempts to fool Jennings with a similarly looking decoy. Jennings is saved from the encounter by the real Rachel, and together they escape both Rethrick and the FBI. Jennings comes to learn of his past romance with Rachel. As the two sort through the remaining items in the envelope, they encounter a microdot on one of the stamps on the envelope; up close, the dot reveals images, most of future newspaper headlines that outline Allcom's rising success due to a device that can predict the future, and the political battles over the technology. These lead to a series of self-fulfilling prophecies and a final image showing a planet devastated by nuclear war.
The two come to realize that Jennings must have been working on this time predictive device while at Allcom, reverse engineering the details from Dekker. This device was nothing but a global forecast expert system able to predict the exact future of every human. When the machine starts up, the operator selects from a database the desirable target and the machine loads a related video visible on a large screen. This way, the operator simulates his future, avoiding possibly fatal errors. Perhaps, the machine uses laser beams able to detect gravity potential of every object including humans, so it can predict the moves and acts of everyone.
Jennings, having discovered this grim future (including his own death), took steps to try to prevent it. Using the machine, Jennings looked into his immediate future and provided himself with a set of objects that would keep him out of danger without the objects having any obvious value. Jennings also had managed to sabotage the device just prior to leaving Allcom, rendering it useless for Rethrick to attempt to use to trace him down using the same methods. The sabotage was made by placing a virus microchip on one of the machine's many motherboards. This change lead the machine to an "Error 41″.
Jennings and Rachel use the remaining items in the envelope to infiltrate Allcom and discover the machine. Jennings is able to find the circuit that he had previously altered, and uses the device once more, seeing himself being shot by an FBI sniper. The two rig the system to explode and then try to escape, but are cornered by Rethrick armed with a gun. Before Rethrick has a chance to shoot him, an alarm from a watch from Jennings' envelope of miscellaneous items goes off, allowing Jennings to duck just in time before the FBI fires, causing the bullet to fatally strike Rethrick. Jennings and Rachel escape just before the time prediction machine explodes. The FBI agents allow Jennings to go free after investigating the wreckage of the machine.
Jennings, Rachel, and Shorty begin a greenhouse operation, and come to realize that Jennings had used the device one last time while working at Allcom to secure a winning lottery ticket worth over $90 million, hidden in Rachel's birdcage.
Link: Paycheck at IMDB


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You're not thick but its not correct to say there are no surprises (problems) when it comes to the road rules.
First there is a common understanding that passing (in the same lane particularly where there are medians) is the same as overtaking which is defined as such.
In discussing overtaking there seems to be too much emphasis on marked lanes and very little on 'line of traffic' which are very different.
(c) passing the other driver while travelling in the adjacent marked lane or line of traffic
When a car or truck passes a cyclist it does not necessarily have to change lanes because of the line of traffic requirement. Wide kerbside lanes are specifically provided to be wide enough for cyclists to be overtaken within the same lane. In this case the line of traffic refers to the cyclists line which is very narrow - having a distance between the two lines of traffic, such as 1.5m is a massive improvement.
Think of a cyclist as defining his line of traffic, effectively this is a space just 1.0m wide. These are easy to see as they exist as a 'marked lane' and are called Bike Lanes. Probably their main benefit (apart from conning inexperienced cyclists that they are safer) is for the motorist as they remove cyclists from the main traffic lane and keep them away from the cleaner safer part of the road.
I see many horrendous videos of cyclists being passed which are clearly less than half a metre clear so, with a 1.5m rule evidence of a breach would be easy to show. Ask Aushiker what the WA police say when he shows them a near pass "no offence observed" and think whether that casual rejection would still be appropriate where the test would be 1.5m.
Rules are there to educate, modify behaviour and only as a last resort enforce. Why would anyone not support such a sensible rule that provides as much room to a smaller cyclist as a motor vehicle always provides to another bigger vehicle.
Put simply fear of being hit when passing too close makes motorists take greater care - with big vehicles. When the fear of passing too close is only felt by the cyclist being passed there needs to be a law that provides an additional fear for the motorist to keep clear.

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Police were alerted to a drink-driver almost three times the limit in Buxton because she was driving without her headlights on in the early hours of the morning, a court heard.
Officers on London Road at 2.30am on December 1 saw a Ford Focus coming up behind them with no lights on, prosecutor Jennifer Fitzgerald said.
They pulled over to let the vehicle go in front and then followed it along London Road, illuminating their blue lights, but the car failed to stop, High Peak Magistrates' Court heard.
The Ford Focus, which was travelling at about 20 miles an hour, then turned right onto Harpur Hill Road so they followed it up to the roundabout when it turned round and went back down Harpur Hill Road. The officers still had their blue lights on but the Focus, which was travelling very slowly and swerving across the road, again failed to stop so they activated the siren. The car continued onto London Road when another police car arrived and was able to stop it by pulling in front of it.
When officers approached the Focus, they noticed the driver, Harriet Baxter, smelt strongly of alcohol. Her eyes were glazed and her speech was slurred. She failed a roadside breath test so was arrested and taken back to the police station where she provided a reading of 101, the legal limit is 35.
Baxter, 24, of Hollins Street, admitted drink-driving.
Representing herself in court, she told the magistrates she had been out for the evening with a friend but they had got separated. She said she couldn't remember anything of the night but that she thought she had been assaulted and had her phone stolen while walking back to her house.
"My brother works in Harpur Hill and I believe that is where I must have been going," she said. "I don't remember anything. It's just a mystery. I think I was trying to get away from danger."
Chairman of the Bench Michael Hilton said: "You have pleaded guilty to an offence of drink driving at a very high level. You were just about three times the drink-drive limit. We know from the training we receive that people who are twice the drink-drive limit are 50 times more likely to be involved in a fatal accident and you were considerably more than that.
"You were a serious risk to road users, pedestrians and other people who were around."
She was given a 12-month community order with 100 hours of unpaid work. She must pay costs of £200, a surcharge of £60 and was banned from driving for 24 months.


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BOSTON, Mass. - MIT women's cross country captured its seventh straight New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) title on a rainy Saturday at Franklin Park. Tech, who has been ranked as high as third in the nation in the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) poll, ended the day with 23 points, leaving a sizeable gap between it and second place Wellesley College with 70 points and third place Coast Guard with 99.
Junior Elaine McVay (San Ramon, Calif.) claimed her first-ever individual NEWMAC title in the 5k with her time of 18:16.85, dropping almost 15 seconds off the time that earned her a second place finish at last year's championships. She was named the NEWMAC Women's Cross Country Runner of the Year for her impressive performance. Freshman Maryann Gong (Livermore, Calif.) was the runner-up with an 18:36.64 and earned NEWMAC Rookie of the Year honors.
Coming in behind Marina Capalbo of Babson College and Priyanka Fouda of Wellesley College, who were third and fourth, were freshman Christina Wicker (Oak Harbor, Wash.) and graduate student Brooke Johnson (Shoreham, N.Y.) in fifth and sixth place with times of 18:43.74 and 18:44.19 respectively.
Closing out the top 10 finishers and earning All-Conference accolades, along with all of the runners who finished in the top 14, were seniors Alexandra Taylor (Harbor Springs, Mich.) and Louise van den Heuvel (Nashua, N.H.), who crossed the line in ninth and 10th place with times of 18:49.68. Senior Kaitlin Allen (Bedford, N.H.) came in15th place with a 19:11.12 and sophomore Nicole Zeinstra (Holland, Mich.) was 16th in 19:19.51.
Tech will return to the cross country trail in just under two weeks when it travels to the University of Southern Maine for the second time this season for the New England Division III Regional Championships, which will take place on Saturday, Nov. 16.
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48 Million Xbox Live subscribers are already connected to a potentially always online service.
While I am online the majority of the time, there's occassions where ISP's screw you over and have errors, as well as LIVE's own occassional hiccups. Always-on for DRM/digital content might be fine, I expect to be able to plonk my game discs in and play offline though.
Do they even realize that not everyone has a stable internet connection? I live in paraguay and even though I can play online games it is not always that I have a stable internet connection.
discs are rumored to be used only for game installations and useless after that
If 46 million people were online all at the same time. The server would already crashed.
Sure, but you are the minority now. Time to adapt, not the other way around. Sorry.
the minority? I bet you are American who has no idea how the outside world functions. Theres a difference between having a fast internet connection and a stable internet connection. Most people dont have stable internet connections.
@Thatlalala - What do you expect him to do? Dig the roads and plant his own telephone cables?
How narrow-minded can you be? There are plenty of people in the world tat don't have stable internet connections. They are NOT the minority, in fact it's more likely that they are the majority. Hell, I live in UK, and some times our internet goes down as well. There is no such ting as a bullet-proof internet service, because they always go down at some point.
Let me tell you my situation.
I live in a place where I have a very good internet connection. But every weekend, I go to my family house in a more rural area. They dont have internet there. However, I take my Xbox or PS3 to play somes games with my family. Mainly Buzz, PES/Fifa or some racing games offline.
With this always ON crap I wont buy the nextbox because I wont be able to enjoy it there.
Even in the city, my ISP sometimes has downtime due to maintance or other factors.
Hell, I have Diablo 3 on PC, and believe me, it is not good to have a always ON game. Specially if you loose progress on a certain dificcult area of the game and your internet gets a lag spike.
This is not just exclusive to places like that either. There are places throughout Canada and the United States (surely the UK has the same problem) that are much smaller and have some of the worst internet I've ever seen, yet people still play lots of video games there.
I pretty much have my PS3 (WiiU atm) with me where ever I go for work, and more often than not the internet is horrible and can't hold a stable connection, yet alone run a proper Youtube video at 720p.
Internet is NOT mandatory to play video games, and it shouldn't start being mandatory.
@DMD Im living in ciudad del este at the borders. I spend half my time in Brasil as well.
always online in regards to actually playing a game online (aka multiplayer) and verifying legitimacy of a game (aka key checking).
If their system does a check to verify the game (which can take a few seconds) then is that so bad?
I know people will find fault in that thought process but it doesnt mean you are maintaining an internet connection from that verification process on.
F-it...im getting the next box no matter what because I like gaming too much to up and quit. Its an addiction for me, a fever. And the only thing that can cure me is more cow bell.
You're retarded, i know a lot of people who have xbox's that don't have internet access and i live in downtown SD California, they rather just use their phones to access their social media or they just don't care about online gaming thus have no need to pay for a isp. I even have a friend who has never updated his xbox so he still uses the old 360 dashboard ^_^
@Xaphy - Pay no mind to Thatlalala, his comment was one of the dumbest things I've read in a while. You and everyone else have every right to play games offline. You shouldn't NEED to have a stable connection to play games. That is simply ridiculous and unfair to those that don't have them.
No need to bring up what piece of dirt he happened to take his first breath on. Theres ignorant people across the globe, not just america. Would if i said the only thing people in paraguay can comprehend is a soccer ball? Would that be a correct assumption or a blind hateful stab at your people?
Thats exactly what M$ looks at.
last time i checked they sold how many?? 70+ Million.
so thats about half of there users right?
in the words of the now infamous Francis SCREW THEM right?
of those 46 million how many have intermittent disconnections occur, hard to tell right well let me enlighten you most of those users don't have 100% connections even live is not online 100% of the time so what are they supposed to do with there consoles when they have internment issues and want to play?? use it as a footbal??
Do you really think that a company that sold over 70 million units of their prior iteration would say "You know, let's only market to half of our previous customer base"?
You think they said "Screw them, we don't need their business"?
Really, that's what you think? OK...
I'm not sure what the Always On/Block Used Game component really means (if it exists). But I do know that it would be commercial suicide for one company to implement a plan like this while the other does not. Do you know who else knows this? Microsoft and Sony.
@ sengoku
Do you really think that a company that sold over 70 million units of their prior iteration would say "You know, let's only market to half of our previous customer base"?
You think they said "Screw them, we don't need their business"?
Really, that's what you think? OK...
Actually microsoft has already answered that question for u. While those 46 million people are paying for xbl the rest are left out to dry & cant experience the full potential of their games because they dont want to pay extra for something that should be free so basically, "Yes" microsoft is screwing the rest of the fanbase.
Edit: Actually all of the fanbase is screwed because even the ones who payed had to pay lol.
I think you (and it seems like a lot of others) misunderstand my point. The "screw the customer" is not the relevant point.
I am saying that MS would only be hurting themselves if they were the only company to insist on "always on/block used games". Why would they do that if there is nothing to gain and everything to lose? I'm guessing that they wouldn't and it's not out of the goodness of their hearts.
People please THINK. A company like MS is not going to say "screw them" and intentionally cut out half of their user base unless that action benefits them in some way.
If they do move forward in this direction (and Sony does not) then I'll be the first to admit that I was wrong. I just can't envision that scenario coming to fruition.
Look there not stupid right??
well then riddle me this..
why are we still talking about this??
it's been leaked by many sources for a very long time and it doesn't die,
new sources keep popping up every week.
The creative director currently working at M$ probably on x720 is trying to defend this feature.
what could this be?
IT'S DRM... A.k.A. always online
M$ have not been able to get a solid DRM on the system, the console gets out the door and it's hacked on the way to the store.
The only way for M$ to get a lid on pirating is to have always online DRM it's about the MONEY.
why do you get a Dorito add every time you login while you pay for a monthly sub?
IT's About MONEY,
and yes if they can make more MONEY from 40 million user because they add more Doritos and have better DRM and force KINECT 2.0 To Count heads so you pay per person watching netflix or playing games, then thats what they will do.
It's all about money..
they even have you pay live subs for 2,3 accounts on the same console why?? they don't care.
M$ doesn't make money on the consoles, the thing is sold at a loss.
the amount of repairs they had to pay for because of rrod issue made it even worse..
they want the real money and that, my friend is in the contend, subs and DRM A.k.A. always online
"It's about money."
Well, thank you for the succinct explanation of a successful business model in a capitalist society, Mr. Buffet. Do you mean to tell me that the primary concern of a major corporation like Microsoft is money? No, really...are you sure?
You do know that you are essentially agreeing with me. As I said "MS is not going to eliminate half of their customer base" because it will affect their bottom line. The only reason for MS to implement the online/DRM system is if it somehow generates more income. I really can't see how that is possible. As you so simply put it, "it's about money". Just as it is with EVERY business entity.
Unless you think that other companies, let's say Sony for example, are exempt from this "appalling" desire to turn a profit. Not those guys...never...they're your friends. They care about you. Right?
Around 30% of Xbox consoles sold have never been connected. That was from Microsoft themselves.
So it isn't half, but quite a big percentage nevertheless.
However, don't forget not all of that 30% will be scenarios where it isn't possible to connect the Xbox to Xbox LIVE.
So for example a console in a childs bedroom would likely have no need to go online, so the parent would not set up Xbox LIVE on the console.
but if for whatever reason I choose to disconnect from PSN or Live I'll still be able to play SP campaigns, right?
I play a lot of fighting games. So if I can't practice offline, then I don't see me ever buying the next Xbox if this is true.
Being an Xbox live member does not denote a person who is always on or plays the majority of their games online. Many of these people could have it for the sole purpose of using Netflix and similar services. It doesn't mean that they are always online or that they are okay with a game that will require an Internet connection to play offline.
Im not paying someone else to use a service im already paying for, especially when said service can be used on so many other devices for FREE.
i have a 360 but i refuse to be robbed out of my own money for something that should be FREE.
The important thing here is, at the moment, XBOX gamers have an option, whether they will have one tomorrow is a different story.
The question is, do XBOX gamers mind not having an option?
You can't ask that question yet. MS haven't told them what to think yet ;)
Nope. Just cause I have an xbox account doesn't mean it's online every time I game. In fact, its offline most of the time.
Count me as a no, Microsoft. No thank you!
Once the MS knows that every customer has an always on connection, the temptation to throw in or sell advertising or draw stats from users to use to sell to the advertisers must also become a reality?
The people asking what will happen when my internet is down...dont you think that MS has already asked the same question and has a way to avoid this.
No, I don't think they have. I think they don't give a damn. Don't know what would make you believe otherwise, if they were considering this in the first place.
well i live in Colombia and i always on, i have a good 4mb internet connection and only a few times go down....but i want to play all the time even without internet
I highly doubt that Microsoft is going to introduce an "always on" type functionality for their next console that will be implemented in such a way that unless you have a active internet connection throughout gameplay that you will NOT be able to play a game you've already paid for. Sure you may need a internet connection as some sort of sign in/DRM but I don't think it will be anymore than that. Microsoft is very smart, the xbox division is making them tons of cash so I'm sure a lot of thought is going into how to best implement this without alienating the vast majority of their fan base.
I have dealt with quite a lot of people from those who are doing pretty well financially to those who are barely making ends meet, so maybe I'm crazy but who doesn't have the internet?...or more revelant who owns a xbox now and does not at least have internet? I mean speaking purely from my work experience along with my own personal experience over the last 2 years I honestly can't think of anybody I know of who does not have some sort of internet connection. I know that as of June 2012 about 80% of Americans were at least using the internet, plus most of xbox sales come for places like Europe/UK, Canada and Australia which have over 60% internet penetration. http://www.internetworldsta...
The better news is that the internet penentration percentage is much higher among those who actually own a gaming console. As for those who cant afford or don't live in areas where internet is NOT available well I doubt these gamers are really a big part of Microsofts plans for their next console, if you hate the idea of needing a internet connection just to play then just buy a ps4 and forget about xbox, I'm sure despite all of the "OMG this is the end for xbox", Microsoft's next console will still have huge sales and the games will be great for the rest of us.
Lots of good people don't have access to Internet because they cant afford it. My ex girlfriend is a single mom and she is a hardcore xbox gamer. She gets to still enjoy online but she is lucky that a neighbor in her apt building lets her use the wi fi for free. I myself wasnt gaming online with my Xbox 360 for a very long time until I was out of college and could finally afford paying for internet.
But you are stil right in that times have changed and internet is pretty much everywhere, but doesnt it bother you that with this always online stuff you will never ever own any of the games you buy because of being at the mercy of microsoft? Imagine if old school NES had this online roadblock. You couldnt play any of the games you have in your collection, as im certain Nintendo would not be supporting such an old console. But we PAID for those games. We have a right to PLAY what we payed for.
People like you who are turning a blind eye to this have a very narrow vision, or are in denial. This problem goes way beyond just finding Internet to play your console. It's also about owning your games and being able to play them at any time you wish.
huh? I'm not sure what you mean, you will still own the games you buy however you would just be required to use the internet when you boot up the game(I'm assuming this is likely what they mean by always on). -We literally know nothing about how this work and surely this could be a one time type of DRM unlock per console, so who's to say you wont be able to play your old games with no connection, logic tells me Microsoft has this well thought out for all the what if's like that. As for those who cant afford or live in rural areas without internet connection, they are a small minority of current 360 owners, that's life tech moves forward Microsoft should not limit their vision of future consoles based on the few....so if their plans don't suit you and your girlfriend just buy a ps4, wii-u, or game on pc and let those not bothered enjoy what they choose to buy, I mean its not like Microsoft is going to lie, get you to buy the next xbox and THEN say, "ha ha you need internet to play". lol
Stop making excuses. There's a difference between "I use my internet a lot" and "always on is required to play games", which is a form of DRM.
Let's say I'm a BlOps2 junkie. Oh, darn. My internet is down, or there's server maintenance, or XBL is acting funny, or something like that. Darn, I can't get online! Oh well, I guess I'll play through the campaign or play Fez or something.
But "always on required" is something completely different. Let's say my internet is down, or server maintenance, or whatever, and I can't get online. Well then my always-on Xbox pops up a warning and says "please connect to the internet to verify your game library". Wait. What? So then I put the game disc into the drive, the game disc that I purchased from the store. The disc spins up. I load it. The same warning pops up. "Please connect to the internet to verify your game library".
What I'm describing is nothing new at all. In fact, what I just described is something that has been very common amongst PC games for the last half-decade.
I just want to go online for free.
or what if you have slow internet and you want to use netflix on your pc AND play a offline game but you have to be online, its little things like that. And what you said also.
as you can see ...the USA media start the Damage control early
somehow they think "i play online when i want"
is the same as "you need online to play games"
Yeah exactly, or say there's a popular game, and the servers crash, or they shut down servers for a specific game that's like more than 2 years old, or there's a SimCity situation all over again. No games, no nothing.
It's why Cloud Gaming was looked down upon, why OnLive was looked down upon, etc.
true. even my PS3 is always connected but it doesn't mean i can't play games if the internet is down. i can already feel how frustrating it is going to be when you need to be always online because on PS3 you need to be logged on to PSN just to watch Youtube videos through the app. if i'm disconnected from PSN, the app stops playing the videos. pretty stupid if you ask me.
now if you take that issue when playing games... woah! it's gonna piss off lot's of people. imagine you're about to make that final kill on the big boss on Dark Souls 2 and you get internet error.
i didn't buy Diablo 3 not because i heard it was worse than D2 but because i heard about the always online policy.
I don't have internet offered in my home, only while I'm at work I have it. So even though I want a nextbox I wouldn't be able to play it unless I was at work :/
Well said. I am connected to the internet all the time on my Xbox, whether I am playing single player or not. Howefer, for that to be a requirement is a big no-no for me. Will not be getting a 720 110% if it requires always online. The amount of trouble I have had with my ISP is ridiculous. Plus, I don't have unlimited usage.
Then again, Microsoft have only ever cared about the U.S.A only anyway. Oh well, I suppose I can get $400-$600 worth of PS4 games instead. What a shame :( /s
Everyone assumes Microsoft doesn't have a clue around here. I suspect they will have something much more complex and user friendly than what many are suggesting to combat the issues you guys have raised.
And yet a lot of people assume Microsoft knows exactly what they're doing, when they might not. RRoD, anyone? Games for Windows Live, anyone? Windows Vista, anyone? Microsoft can make mistakes just like any company, and the glut of rumors are indicating that Microsoft is doing their usual greedy, restrictive nonsense like they always have. It's really nothing new. They required you to go online and re-verify the games on your hard drive with Xbox Live if you plugged it into a new 360.
EA should have learned their lesson with DRM when Spore launched years ago. Yet, they keep trying over and over again, SimCity being the most recent example. Ubisoft is another company that SHOULD know better, but they keep messing up with DRM. Rock* games on PC are miserable because of the DRM. Every once in a while, a perfectly functional game gets f'd up by Steam because of Steam's DRM. You would think these companies SHOULD know better, but they keep making the same mistakes.
The bigwigs in Microsoft might be thinking exactly like this article thinks: hey, a ton of our users are online anyway, so let's require them to be online, okay?
And that's why Microsoft is so confident with this Always-On thing. They KNOW they have a fanbase that will put up with almost anything they throw at them.
And even if they don't, Microsoft's rumoured move to included a TV tuner and make Kinect the main way of interacting with menus will DEFINITELY catch the TV watching/casual crowd (most HDPVR's are almost as expensive as consoles and include less space).
So they know if this Always-On deters gamers, they'll still manage high sales. Everyone knows Microsoft from their phones, almost every PC ever and their tablets. So now Microsoft is making an HDPVR that also plays video games and streams movies off netflix/etc? It'll get eaten up regardless of their gaming content, and the most stubborn "gamers" will still stay by their side with the one or two rehashed exclusives a year.
To gamers, what Microsoft is doing (if it's even true) is horrible and shouldn't be supported by any right-minded gamer. Buy a PS4 or Wii-U.
But to someone just looking to play a few videogames and doesn't mind paying all these extra fees, and mostly will use it as their central entertainment unit, it's a good deal. A fantastic deal, almost. Since instead of paying your cable company for cable, you'd be paying Microsoft with XboxLive.
But who really knows. Just be aware of what could possibly be, and what side you should be on depending on what you want from the gaming industry. So far, Sony is showing great promise when it comes to creating new things and working with developers to create even better things.
It's still Microsoft's move.
Did you know MS is one of the most untrusted companies in the consumer's eyes in the US? Do you know why this is? Decades of Windows supremacy has made them the giant that must be toppled, figuratively speaking. MS didn't get to it's current position because they loved the consumer, they got there because they made the right moves early on, and then dictated the market for over 30 years through ever increasing anti-consumer practices which many were forced to accept because Window's had the support.
What makes you think that people are going to look at Xbox as their all-in-one solution to their media serving needs, when typically the cable or phone company already provides all of that for them?
Outside of gaming, MS is almost universally despised from a consumer standpoint. People are skeptical of them. people don't trust them. They don't even make good hardware (although the 360 became good later in it's life), and many people have had crappy MS hardware, or have been a part of it's many many many many past failures.
You say they're known for their phones and tablets. MS doesn't make the phones that run Windows Phone OS(which I actually like), and surface has not been a major success. Food for thought.
Do not bank on it.... you would think MS are smart enough to know, but they really don't seem to have a clue, the last few years have shown us this.
"Everyone assumes Microsoft doesn't have a clue around here."
No. Everyone assumes that because Microsoft introduced microtransactions to consoles and also have the gall to charge gamers to access the online portion of their games that they already paid for, while throwing ads in their faces, that they don't have any scruples and are completely capable of doing something like this.
Nope your wrong even considering this makes them the dumbest bunch of retard on the planet.
Console manufacturers have come and gone before though. Once upon a time, I'll bet people thought Atari and Sega were smart enough to stay in the game, but they each banked on losing horses in the console races and were sunk. Big companies make mistakes all the time, and some of those mistakes are severe enough as to ruin them. I'm not saying an always-online Xbox is just such a mistake, but I wouldn't assume they've thought of every contingency either. It'll probably be more complex than what we're imagining, but I can guarantee it won't be as foolproof as they hope.
Even if they offer LIVE members an DRM free (always on or off) console it would not be cool.
I can't say I won't get it yet because of my collection of DLC packs.
MS could have thought of every single possible scenario through years of think tanks on this exact issue, and they can address every single issue there is in this regard so that it does not affect the consumer negatively, but the past couple days has shown that it still isn't a good idea.
Will it succeed? hard to say. Is it advisable to take the risk? Again, that would depend on what MS hopes to achieve by doing so, which is really the true unknown right now.
All I know is that people in general take a very dim view on anything that can be construed as bad for them. Sometimes they don't realize what can be bad, and they latch onto it, but it appears the press isn't going to let that happen, which means MS will have to do a lot of marketing to make it seem desirable, or find a subversive way to get it into people's homes. Honestly, I'd prefer that kind of money be spent on making games...because you know it's a game console.
Or something that appeals to a majority while outright ignoring a minority.
I've said it before this "rumor" blew up to the levels it now has: MS is going to works and appeal to general consumers with their system as a cable box and sell it with cable/internet package deals. Likely expand their install base while allowing them to ignore the segment of gamers w/o internet.
I already have cable and internet, all i want from these companies are games consoles.
i didnt ask my cable company to be a games player so i didn't ask these companies to become cables boxes i just want them to play games.
For over a year now I have thought that the next Xbox would be available from cable providers. And in one way I hope it happens.
You would eliminate a modem and a router from the set up. This would help to reduce latency. Now I can set up a router and modem to work correctly but a lot of people can't and don't. More gamers on direct connected units would mean less lag in MP games.
An always on, direct connected console appeals to me. I could start enjoying MP again without so many laggy idiots.
Really doubt MS will be providing a modem or router with the system. You'll still have to use the ones your cable/internet provider provides.
No separate modem or router needed. I'm talking about direct connection like cable boxes are now. Coax cable straight to the console. Internally a console could have a cable/networking card that handles TV and internet. No modem no router less lag!
That's highly unlikely to happen. The cable coming into your house is split into different frequencies to provide for TV service and internet service. It can be carried on the same line, but it's impractical to make the Xbox into a modem, not to mention use it for a wireless or wired switch/router for your whole home.
This would also increase the cost to the Xbox by quite a lot, and I'm sure MS would much prefer to save a bit on those technologies and just allow the ISP continue to provide it. Also given the current dispute that MS has with Motorola, they aren't going to be pushing any of that in their nextBox.
DRM sucks but until theres some factual info from MS I will reserve judgement.
The recent blowout of a Microsoft employee defending this whole debacle seems to say this might very well be true.
It was pretty ass, he just made it seem like everyone should have internet at this point and just because he doesn't always have power, it doesn't stop him from buying a vacuum or just because he doesn't have good reception, he doesn't stop himself from buying a cell phone..
Why the fuck would you buy a cell phone if you know you never get a good reception? Why the fuck would you buy a vacuum when you can barely ever use it without electricity. His points were beyond arrogant about the whole thing and really made no sense.
Then at the end of his rant he just says "I want every device to be always on". What a selfish prick.
You could argue that you are being selfish - but we don't yet know why they want always-online.
They wouldn't do it just to annoy people, so there must be something good they think they can do with it.
So by saying they shouldn't have it you are preventing those that do have a stable internet that cool new feature - which is selfish.
'I can't have it so you can't either' is not a very good attitude to take.
Also, I get his point on vacuum cleaners and mobile phones.
You'd still buy the phone because even though you may lose coverage for a brief period of time it will be the best available to you. You still buy the vacuum cleaner even though you may have a power cut because it is better than no vacuum at all.
So what Microsoft would have to do in order to convince those with unstable connections is show them why even though for brief periods of time it will be inoperable you really need to get this device because of what it can do that the other consoles can't.
Please note, I am not saying always online is a good idea.
And they would of course never be able to convince someone who has, and could never have, access to the internet entirely.
Pure BS , almost no one is constantly online without the occasional disconnects and issues from ISP .
When that happens to me you're going to tell me to start over my level or to just wait or it to be back ? Well you can wait for me to purchase your console too
It was only the other night where I got disconnected for a few hours for no apparent reason, it was back up and running hours later fine though - a rare occassion though it is.
It's annoying when that happens now, could you imagine being invested in a single-player game such as Skyrim or BioShock and your connection drops. At that point my box would likely be mid-air and heading for the wall. Regardless of rumours from so-so credible sources, I still can't see it happening for the simple reason - that I wouldn't buy one.
I'm sure it's just something that's being "considered", and purposefully leaked now just so they can get a general reaction before implementing such a feature.
I just don't understand what the big deal is about having to be offline.
I have a PS Vita and it is pretty much useless without an internet connection. Before every trip I have to log into it and do all updates to all games to use it offline because if it connects to any network it flags updates before you can play games.
Today, XBLA and GoD games are useless without an internet connection.
The Xbox has always been an online device to gain the advantages it really has over other devices.
What if your internet goes down? Or their servers crash? Or their servers for a game you like are shut down? Or a SimCity situation happens? Or they're are too many people logged in at once? No games, no apps.
Completely different. Vita is not useless without an internet connection, anytime i want i can play any game that i have with no internet connection required.
The xbox brand has NEVER been an ALWAYS ONLINE device. If you go an turn off your wifi or unplug your ethernet cable you can still play your single player games. This new tactic with effectively change that.


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While UM men's http://tinyurl.com/6rgh637 and women's http://tinyurl.com/7ha63ep basketball programs continue through their respective tournaments, UM baseball has been getting it done as well.
The Canes are now 16-4 overall and 5-1 in the ACC.
Senior catcher Peter O'Brien was named ACC Player of the Week on Monday.
O'Brien, who recorded an impressive .529 batting average over the past five games, finished the week with three homeruns, three doubles, nine RBI and 21 total bases. O'Brien had hits in all but one game this past week, including multi-hit games in three of his team's five contests.
"It's a great honor to be selected," O'Brien said. "But I think an even bigger honor is seeing our team on the top of the Coastal Division of the ACC."
O'Brien powered the ninth-ranked Hurricanes to victory in a midweek battle with visiting Illinois State and in the team's series finale against Duke, recording four RBI's in each game. The Miami Gardens, Fla. native is now tied for the conference lead in homeruns with seven, and is hitting an impressive .389 on the season, good for fifth-best in the ACC.
"I feel great. I'm still going up to the plate and being aggressive, but I felt a lot better balance this week," O'Brien said. "I'm hitting the ball a lot better and I'm starting to drive it to all fields. I'm just happy to help our team win."
O'Brien finished the week with splits of .529 AVG/ .600 OBP /1.235 SLG. He leads the Hurricanes in nearly every hitting category on the season, including average, runs (17), hits (27), doubles (7), homeruns (7), RBI (25) and total bases (57).
"He's a very talented player that's getting better, no question about that," Head Coach Jim Morris said of his team captain. "He's got great power, he's got an outstanding arm and he's a big strong guy, so he's got all the tools to be really good."
Canes baseball is now ranked ninth in the USA Today/ESPN coaches' poll, Collegiate Baseball poll and National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association, 12th in the Baseball America poll. The Canes play at FAU in Boca Raton at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday and are home for a three-game ACC series against Maryland from Friday through Sunday.
Football resumes tomorrow morning at Greentree Field. It is closed to the public. The Hurricanes' first open scrimmage is from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday at Ted Hendricks Stadium in Hialeah. It will be one of three open scrimmages this spring. The second one is Friday, March 30th, from 6:45 to 8:45 p.m. at Bishop Verot High School in Fort Myers. The final one will serve as the spring game, from 2 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 14, at Sun Life Stadium.


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Here we go again.
The N.C. Department of Transportation shared some of its preliminary designs of the proposed Slocum Road-U.S. 70 interchange with Havelock leaders last week, and those designs should cause city residents to be concerned.
Despite the overwhelming disapproval of residents about the East Main Street median project, DOT went forward with the project anyway, and now a simple drive across town has turned into a U-turn-filled journey that can take residents a mile out of their way to reach their destinations.
Well, if you hate the median, you�ll hate the proposed interchange plans.
The biggest issue is the impact on residents of Tucker Creek, MacDonald Downs and Hickman Hills. For some reason, DOT engineers feel changes are needed to a perfectly good and functioning traffic signal where U.S. 70 separates Tucker Creek and Hickman Hills.
Currently, the traffic signal allows drivers traveling from any direction to go in any direction they desire � straight, left or right.
According to preliminary plans DOT presented last week, most of these turns will be restricted. Drivers coming out of Tucker Creek would be able to turn left or right but would be prevented from driving straight across the highway.
It�s worst for residents of Hickman Hills. For them to head east on U.S. 70 toward Havelock � currently a simple right turn onto the highway � they would have to wait on the signal to change, make a left turn, go west on the highway a few hundred yards, and then make a U-turn to head back east at a new crossing to be constructed.
Residents heading east on U.S. 70 wishing to turn left into Tucker Creek won�t be able to do so at the traffic signal as they can currently. Instead, they will have to drive past the entrance to their neighborhood and make a U-turn at a new crossing that is to be constructed a few hundred yards down the highway.
Hickman Hills residents would have to do the same thing to enter their neighborhood from the opposite side of the highway.
We have questioned DOT on its designs and spending in the past, but this proposal goes beyond anything that makes sense.
The Tucker Creek traffic signal is not a problem for residents and never has been. It allows free movement of traffic safely in all directions.
Instead, DOT wants to make local residents drive out of what is a normal traffic pattern and force them to make left turns and U-turns into speeding traffic along U.S. 70. Not to mention they will have to go out of their ways to access their own neighborhoods.
Meanwhile, MacDonald Downs residents would no longer have direct access to U.S. 70 but would have to use a new road that is to be built that links with Tucker Creek.
We understand that the plans are preliminary, and Matthew Potter, DOT�s project development engineer, told us that the plans could very well change before they are presented to the public, possibly at a hearing in June.
We�re not completely sold on the need for the flyover interchange anyway, a project that is estimated to cost taxpayers $20.5 million. Granted the Slocum-U.S. 70 intersection has been the site of some bad crashes, but we believe other changes can be done to make the intersection safer. A reduction in speed limit can give drivers more time to react, and warning signs placed before the intersection can tell drivers when the light is about to change. We believe the flashing caution turn arrows installed last fall have already helped reduce wrecks in the area.
After all, the intersection itself is not the cause of crashes. Drivers making poor decisions at the intersection have been the cause. The National Motor Vehicle Crash Causation Study conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration a few years back noted that driver error was the primary cause of 90 percent of major crashes across the country.
So now the state wants to spend $20.5 million in taxpayer money, disrupt normal traffic patterns, change a perfectly good and safe traffic light, and force residents to make U-turns and drive in different directions to access their neighborhoods.
Instead, it should be DOT that heads in a different direction and makes a U-turn with these proposed plans.


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SQL Server Compact is a great in-process database engine: it's free, lightweight, and xcopy deployable. However, since one of its selling points is its small footprint, Microsoft excludes from it many features that the full version of SQL Server has. One such feature is full-text search (FTS), which helps you build search engine capabilities into your applications.
So if SQL Compact doesn't support full-text search, how do you implement it in your SQL Compact application? More specifically, how did we do it in Glo?
Plus, Glo holds textual information not only in relational tables, but also in lots of files external to the database. How does Glo retrieve search results from all of those files?
Glo's search engine uses Lucene.NET, which is a C# port of the open-source Lucene search engine written by Doug Cutting. Lucene is an information-retrieval API that helps you build and read FTS indexes programmatically. Essentially, it can make any text searchable within your application.
There's nothing wrong with executing LIKE '%term%' queries on database tables for simple search functionality, although it's likely to be slow. But in the same way that searching the index in the back of a book is faster than searching every page in the book, searching FTS indexes is faster than searching your entire database. A LIKE '%term%' query that starts with a wildcard will usually force a table scan or at least an index scan, and will take much longer than an index seek.
A few years ago, a man asked me how it's possible for Google to return so many results so quickly when he searches the Internet. "How can Google search the whole Internet so fast?" I explained to him that executing a search doesn't search the Internet at all, it instead reads a set of pre-built index files, which, like the index at the back of the book, hold the answers all in one place.
Lucene uses the same principle to get search results. In fact, retrieving search results from FTS indexes is straightforward; getting the proper and latest data into the indexes is the part that takes creativity. I'll expound on how Glo accomplishes that in a future post.
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No. 3 Notre Dame stayed undefeated with an uncharacteristically easy victory at home and then had the rest of the night to watch as the teams in front of it in the national championship race lost.
The Fighting Irish hammered Wake Forest 38-0 on senior day in South Bend, Ind., on Saturday.
Then things got really good for the Irish and Alabama, Georgia, Florida and maybe even Florida State.
No. 1 Oregon, second in the BCS standings, lost 17-14 at home in overtime to Stanford. Down in Texas, Baylor blasted No. 2 Kansas State, which was first in the BCS standings, 52-24 in Waco.
On Sunday, Notre Dame likely will be the No. 1 team in the nation. And Alabama, which lost last week to Texas A&M and shut out FCS doormat Western Carolina on Saturday, could very well be No. 2.
No. 14 STANFORD 17, No. 1 OREGON 14, OT
EUGENE, Ore. - Jordan Williamson hit a 37-yard field goal in overtime and Stanford upset Oregon, denying the Ducks a chance to clinch the Pac-12 North and derailing their straight shot at the BCS championship game.
If Stanford and Oregon finish with wins in their final games next weekend, both will finish with one conference loss, which means Stanford will win the head-to-head matchup and go to the Pac-12 championship game for a chance to play in the Rose Bowl.
Stanford (9-2, 7-1) will visit No. 1UCLA, which defeated No. 21 USC 32-29 earlier in the day to claim the Pac-12 South. Oregon (10-1, 7-1) will play rival Oregon State in the annual Civil War rivalry game in Corvallis.
The loss snapped a 13-game winning streak for the Ducks, which was longest current streak in the nation. It was Stanford's fifth straight win.
BAYLOR 52, No. 2 KANSAS STATE 24
WACO, Texas - Glasco Martin ran for three touchdowns, Lache Seastrunk had 185 yards rushing with an 80-yard score and Baylor again upset the BCS picture with a late-season victory.
Collin Klein may be a Heisman Trophy front-runner no more after throwing three interceptions while being pressured and harassed all night by Baylor (5-5, 2-5). He threw for 286 yards, but had only 39 yards on 17 carries for Kansas State (10-1, 7-1 Big 12).
Nick Florence, the successor to Heisman winner Robert Griffin III threw both of his touchdowns in the first half when the Bears jumped out to a 28-7 lead.
On the same November weekend last season, Baylor upset then fifth-ranked Oklahoma after two teams ahead of the Sooners had already lost that day.
No. 3 NOTRE DAME 38, WAKE FOREST 0
SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Everett Golson threw touchdown passes of 50, 34 and 2 yards, Cierre Wood scored on a 68-yard run and Notre Dame finished the season undefeated at home for the first time since 1998.
The Fighting Irish improved to 11-0 for the first time since 1989 and need to beat Southern California to finish a regular season undefeated for the first time since 1988, the last time they won a national championship. The Demon Deacons (5-6) fell to 1-33 all-time against top 5 teams, their lone win coming against No. 4 Tennessee in 1946.
The victory virtually assures the Irish of a berth in a BCS game. The Irish need to beat USC and likely need either No. 1 Oregon or No. 2 Kansas State to lose to reach the BCS title game.
No. 4 ALABAMA 49, WESTERN CAROLINA 0
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Eddie Lacy rushed for three first-half touchdowns and AJ McCarron set Alabama's single-season record for passing TDs.
The Crimson Tide (10-1) rebounded from a loss to No. 9 Texas A&M by building a 42-0 halftime lead against the Catamounts (1-10), a Football Championship Subdivision team with two wins in as many seasons. It was Alabama's third shutout of the season.
McCarron completed all six of his attempts for 133 yards and his 21st touchdown before exiting midway through the second quarter. Lacy ran for 99 yards on 10 carries with two 7-yard touchdowns and a 3-yarder. Neither played after halftime.
No. 5 GEORGIA 45, GEORGIA SOUTHERN 14
ATHENS, Ga. - Aaron Murray threw four touchdown passes and Todd Gurley became only the second true freshman in Georgia history to rush for 1,000 yards.
Georgia (10-1) reached 10 wins for the eighth time in Mark Richt's dozen seasons as coach. Georgia Southern (8-3) had a shot at the halftime lead, only to get scuttled by a penalty, and Murray took control from there.
He completed a 24-yard touchdown pass to Malcolm Mitchell with just 4 seconds left in the half, sending Georgia to the locker room with a 17-7 lead. In the third quarter, Murray hooked up with Chris Conley on a pair of scoring passes, sandwiched around a 43-yarder to Tavarres King.
No. 6 OHIO STATE 21, WISCONSIN 14
MADISON, Wis. - Carlos Hyde scored on a 2-yard run in overtime and the Buckeyes stayed perfect.
The Buckeyes (11-0, 7-0) clinched the Leaders Division title outright with the win. But they are ineligible for the postseason as part of their punishment for NCAA violations under former coach Jim Tressel, and the best they can hope for is to end the year unbeaten and to maybe capture the AP Top 25 title.
Montee Ball scored his 78th touchdown, tying Travis Prentice's major-college record for career scores. But he fumbled on what would have been the record-breaker with 2:46 left in regulation.
The Badgers forced overtime anyway, on Jacob Pedersen's 5-yard catch, but Curt Phillips couldn't find him again in overtime.
No. 7 FLORIDA 23, JACKSONVILLE STATE 0
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - No. 7 Florida used a strong defensive effort to overcome a sluggish offensive performance.
The Gators scored a touchdown on their first possession when Mike Gillislee plowed into the end zone from 7 yards out. But that was the only offensive touchdown all day from Florida.
The Gators (10-1) also scored on a 7-yard interception return by Jonathan Bostic early in the third quarter. Caleb Sturgis added three field goals from 21, 44 and 47 yards out to complete the scoring.
Florida's defense allowed a 76-yard pass completion on the first play of the game, but held the Gamecocks to 176 total yards the rest of the game. Jacksonville State, an FCS program that plays in the Ohio Valley Conference, completed its season with a 6-5 record.
No. 8 LSU 41, MISSISSIPPI 35
BATON ROUGE, La. - Jeremy Hill scored his third touchdown with 15 seconds left to lift LSU to a victory.
The game included seven turnovers, numerous momentum swings and long touchdowns, perhaps none better than Odell Beckham Jr.'s 89-yard punt return for a score that evoked memories of Billy Cannon's famous return against the same team, along the same sideline, for the same yardage back in 1959.
Beckham's return tied the game at 35, but LSU (9-2, 5-2 Southeastern Conference) still needed a pair of clutch sacks by Anthony Johnson and Lavar Edwards to drive Ole Miss (5-6, 2-5) out of routine field goal range later in the fourth quarter, setting up the winning drive.
Ole Miss quarterback Bo Wallace passed for 310 yards and two TDs and ran for two scores, but also was intercepted three times.


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This review is of the book: All Gods Lead to Rome, by Elizabeth A. Leeper. Published in 2012 by Black Rose Writing – http://www.blackrosewriting.com. (345 pages)
When I read the Narnia Chronicles to my youngest son he did not want to hear the final book. He did not want the story to end. That's what I felt about All Gods Lead to Rome. Unfortunately this book had to come to an end.
No cookie-cutter characters inhabit this chronicle of Christians and others in the hostile world of second century Rome. Justin, a Christian philosopher, and Atlus, a Christian slave in the household of Claudius narrate the story. Their relationships with each other and with others are complex and filled with both inner tensions and external threats that gripped me and compelled me to keep reading and reading and reading.
Justin journeys to Rome to establish a Christian school of philosophy. On the boat he meets and becomes friends with urbane Crispan who considers Christians abnormal and the God of the Jews impotent. Throughout, the two engage in friendly disagreement. Victor, a member of the Christian community advocates the views of Valentinus which appeals to Crispan, much to Justin's display.
Claudius, a conflicted Christian, hosts the community alongside his faithful wife, Vestia. Within the household conflict abounds among the slaves and within the congregation vital struggles surface as the church seeks to find its way.
Readers will be surprised that the Christians, with some ambivalence, attend the games of the Ludi Romani, in honor of Jupiter. Atlus takes us behind the scene and describes in some detail the inner workings of Nero's Colloseum as well as the bloody spectacle of slaughter. Later we are not spared the agony as Atlus and others watch the deaths of members of the congregation who had declared their faith publicly.
Framing the story is dialog among the gods of Rome (and other foreign gods as well).
All Gods Lead to Rome is too rich and complex to fairly describe in this short review. You will have to read it for yourself. I am waiting for Elizabeth Leeper's next book!


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Dalai Lama tells his Facebook friends that religion "is no longer adequate"
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This past Monday, people who have the Dalai Lama as a Facebook friend found this little gem in their newsfeed.
All the world's major religions, with their emphasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness can and do promote inner values. But the reality of the world today is that grounding ethics in religion is no longer adequate. This is why I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.
The Dalai Lama's advice sounds startling familiar — one that echos the sentiment put forth by outspoken atheist Sam Harris who argues that science can answer moral questions. The Dalai Lama is no stranger to scientific discourse, and has developed a great fascination with neuroscience in particular. It's very possible, therefore, that his thinking has aligned with Harris.
In a recent interview with the Globe and Mail, Harris had this to say about science and how it should be used to inform our moral and ethical sensibilities:
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I'll believe it when I see it, Tony. Too many times I've seen people make statements, only to retract them and backpedal later. If the Dalai Lama can stand behind this statement in the face of public pressure, then we have a major-league crack in the facade of religion.
The next step comes when he confronts his own followers about this, encourages them to think outside the box, and then ... does the same with faiths outside of Buddhism. That will take some VERY serious stones and could have some pretty ugly short-term consequences.
The question becomes: is he willing to pursue the statement I quoted above to its logical conclusion?
I know, Loren. I have my doubts, very big ones. I'm just trying to think positive. Honestly though, it probably won't happen. I think he's too much immersed in his particular profession of "faith" that it won't be possible. Still, I find it encouraging, and a crack, albeit a very, very small one, is there.
"... grounding ethics in religion is no longer adequate.
The fact of the matter is that it was NEVER adequate."
THANK you for pointing that out! That was my first thought when I read his original statement, and I was going to write a reply, and then all sorts of personal stuff derailed me.
Ever since I got the sack of religion manure off my back, I have been convinced that the priesthood is really "the world's oldest profession." Lazy tribesmen (and women) found a way to make a living without the intense labor of hunting and gathering; just tell your tribe that you can interpret the "meaning" of natural phenomena, and what invented supernatural beings want the tribe to do. Like feed, clothe, and shelter him (or her) in exchange for prophecies and predictions that she/he invents on the spot.
THEN they realized that their invented "abilities" gave them incredible power over everyone else, and it became an addiction.
They're still going at it.
PS: You also said, "Somehow, I don't see Joe the Rat or Ayatollah Khamenei doing anything similar any time soon. Their thirst for power won't even consider it."
There's a long, long list of other very wealthy power addicts that should be added to those two. HillBilly Graham-Cracker, Paddy the Robber's Son, Rick-Rolling Warren, Paul and Jumping Jan Crouch Potatoes, whoever is Prez/Prophet of the LSD Crutch, and whoever is now running ElRon's Engram Scam. The numbers of sheeple in the USA who sincerely believe all those wild-ass cults is amazing. And frighteninig.
One prime reason for establishing state-supported public schools was to have an electorate capable of making educated, informed decisions. WTF went wrong?
WTF went wrong?
C'mon, sk8eycat, you know the answer to that one as well as I do. People got LAZY, sat back on their overstuffed laurels, started figuring that SOMEONE would figure it all out so why should they bother? About the same time, they get all these neat new toys to do the work for them, from calculators and computers to websites with papers they can crib from to "write" their term papers from, among too many other things.
And they got stupid from watching Jerry Springer or Oprah or Faux Noise and listening to Rush or Glen when they might have done better checking out Brian Williams or Scott Pelley and listening to NPR. Problem is, that takes an exercise of intellect, and they don't want to be bothered.
At some point or other, you've probably seen this one:
Sad to say, that one picture and its caption says TONS. Hell of it is, I had to have someone TELL ME that the guy in the lower left was Nicolai Tesla (I'd heard a LOT about Tesla, but never saw a shot of him [shrug]). As for the gal on the right ... I THINK I know who she is ("Snooki," right???), but what she's about, I have ZERO idea, and I'd love for someone to tell me WHY it is that I NEED to know about her.
Laziness and stupidity are slowly but surely killing the US, and if it doesn't kill it, it will leave it unprepared when Dominionism or something like it takes over and TRULY screws things up. I hope I have the common sense to move to Canada BEFORE that happens ... but the hell of it is, I love this country and where I live so much that I'd be hard pressed to abandon it ... and yeah, I think I'd be willing to fight for what it can be rather than let it devolve.
Hell of a note, eh?
But-but-but, other industrialized nations got the same "advantages" and "toys" when we did, but their kids are allowed to learn, figure things out for themselves, and are turning their backs on god swill faster than ours are...although I do find the rapid growth of orgs like Secular Student Alliance encouraging.
But high schools (mostly in the South) teach their students that something dreadful might happen if they don't all pray together before sports events, meetings, meals.
In the late 1950s I was in Holiday with a LOT of skaters from Atlanta, Birmingham, New Orleans, etc.,and we tallked about our different high school customs (Most of us were 17 - 20) . NOBODY prayed before football games, or if they did, they did it privately. They sang "Dixie." Eww.
This rampant evangelism seems to have started during the Reagan administration... when he invited bottm-feeding, knuckle-draggers like FoulWell to the White House, and treated them as though they were heads of state.
Now I'm curious to find out who was his Chief of Protocol...
(Yeah, I know. HillBilly Graham-cracker was a constant visitor at the WH from the Eisenhower days onward, but as far as I know, he was the only one. Then.)
PS: We played Greenville, SC every year...VERY uptight little town! The first time I was there (fall of '57), I wanted to see Bob Jones University because a group from there had come to our church to recruit, and even the most devout older kids in our Sunday school class made jokes about the place. ("They'll expel you if you get a hole in the knee of your bathing suit.") I was curious. My nerves! You needed a pass to visit the campus, so some of us just drove by the place. It looked like a PRISON! Chain-link fences everywhere, boxy buildings...ugly, ugly, ugly. NOT a place where a presidential wannabe would kick off his/her campaign.
Or, to quote my all-time favorite line from the original version of "The Producers," "Well! talk about BAD TASTE!"
Sk8eycat, you said
But-but-but, other industrialized nations got the same "advantages" and "toys" ... but their kids ... turning their backs on god swill faster than ours are.
The US is in a feedback loop, despite our "toys". Religion rises when people are insecure, because there are few safety nets. Right wing politicians unite with fundamentalist religions and prey on an insecure public with fear. When elected they strip away the vestigial security nets that were left. Rinse and repeat.
but their kids are allowed to learn, figure things out for themselves,
I'm afraid that quality of life is going downhill, as far as I can see here. Children have the freedom to figure things out for themselves, but they don't do it. Their daily program is filled to the brim with school, the competitions about clothes and the things they feel they must have, tv, frantic communication by phone or other gadgets. What they haven't got is the time to think, to be bored, to ponder or to wonder. School education here in the Netherlands is no longer a means to learn to think, but just the shortest and easiest way to get a job qualification, and I see no change for the better now that the economy seems to be more important than the quality of life.
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As the childhood obesity epidemic continues, making sure our patients get the healthy lifestyle counseling and treatment they need is one of our main priorities. That's why we've set our own Nemours-wide goal to make sure that body mass index (BMI), which is a calculation of weight and height that estimates body fat, is recorded in at least 80% of all of our patients at least once a year.
We began in 2007 and by the end of the year we'd almost achieved our goal, with 77% of our patients' BMI's checked. We kept going and the very next year we went beyond even our own expectations. By the end of 2008, Nemours had checked 85% of all patients' BMIs. Although 80% is our current goal, we aim for 100% as a health care system. At Nemours, we're unique in our strategy: Our goal is to recognize obesity and capture our patients' BMI as we encounter them.
Tracking BMI is so important because it allows us to identify those children moving up in their percentiles before their weight becomes a problem so that we can share helpful strategies early on. We can also pinpoint those kids who are at risk for the side effects of obesity that otherwise probably would not have been found. These side effects include high blood pressure, cholesterol problems, and liver problems.
And by storing kids' BMI data in our electronic medical record (EMR) system, we can assess the impact of our ongoing obesity prevention initiatives throughout our organization like Nemours Health and Prevention Services' healthy lifestyle program, 5-2-1-Almost None. Plus, all of the health care providers in our system use the same EMR and can share the progress of our patients.
By putting prevention of childhood obesity at the very top of our to-do list as a healthy system, our aim is to keep kids from becoming overweight or obese in the first place and to treat them as soon as possible if they do. Addressing potential problems with overweight and obesity today (like type 2 diabetes, asthma, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol) can help keep them from becoming far bigger problems (like stroke, heart disease, and heart failure) further down the adult road.


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My genealogy friend Cyndi Howells (of Cyndislist fame--http://www.cyndislist.com) is missing her post office keys and I told her she "lost them on the internet" and that she should google them.
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A Guy Called Gerald may be best known for his groundbreaking records from the late '80s and early '90s, including 1995's Black Secret Technology (one of FACT's very favourite albums of the '90s), but middle age hasn't prevented him from remaining active.
Last year Gerald reunited with his former partner in 808 State, Graham Massey, for a series of live shows, while he continues to release semi-regular records from his base in Berlin. Last year, he made the headlines with an open letter to Deadmau5 which referred to the big room superstar as a "greedy rat-head fuck". Ahead of his appearance at Another Party's November 1 event at Pulse, London, FACT caught up with Gerald to talk about the potential of an 808 studio reunion, the new artists he takes inspiration from (spoiler: none of them) and why he's still an old school b-boy at heart.
In recent years your music's been quite tight – quite Berlin, I guess – but last year you got back together with Graham Massey for live analogue shows. Were you missing that kind of hands on, unpredictable feel that you get from live improvisation?
No, it's just I had to basically show people how we started 25 years ago. There's a lot of people who actually have no concept of the beginning of dance music in the '80s so I thought it would be good to show them how it started and then maybe they could kind of jigsaw everything together to see how it's developed. People usually just get a point of view from the DJ.
I don't think my music is very Berlin. Technically Berlin music is shy of melody, more industrial and DJ / programmer oriented. You'd really need to come and see me do a live gig to understand what it's about. There was a Boiler Room session, which was basically just a bite of what I do.
Is it something that the two of you want to take into the studio?
I think it's possible there could be a project but it would have to be coordinated and I'm planning something anyway for the new year – recording in this way – to show people [the] differences and similarities between 25 years ago and programming now.
Last year, you set out a manifesto for "the original art form of electronic dance music production". Do you think that most people, in this age of EDM and what not, are missing the point?
Definitely. The problem actually starts at the root in the production side of things. It's become easier to create loops and beats and I feel a lot of people start by DJing and actually need music and beats that are easy for them to DJ with. So I feel a lot of musicality disappeared or is hidden under an avalanche of new music. It's morphed into something else. As with all art forms, it's moved away from its original situation.
The ideas moved towards the situation where the people who are spearheading this EDM have very little interest in the actual technology or production of their own art. They employ people usually to make the music for them. The original idea came from a DIY situation where people would build their own music.
You still have a regular live schedule, how often do you perform with people who inspire you – the ones that make you think 'right, that's how it should be'? Any recent examples?
I rarely perform with people who inspire me. The last time was in Detroit at the DEMF when Juan Atkins put on a party in his loft.
The UK underground seems to be taking more inspiration from jungle and hardcore than it has for a while: acts like Paul Woolford's Special Request, Tessela, etc. What about those guys? Do you keep up on that stuff?
Not really. I'm always in motion and I've not been in the same places.
OK, then what about hip-hop? You've put out a couple of laid back rap mixes in recent years, do you still take much inspiration from new hip-hop? Or are you strictly old school?
I'm an old school b-boy when it breaks down to it. As with all genres, the music has been filtered and morphed into something that is more commercially viable than what it originally came from. So, put it this way, by the time NWA started, I'd already left the building. I'm still influenced by hip hop or electro funk from the early '80s. I see that as a unique form of inspiration.
I always approach music from the engineering side of things. If I don't hear anything in a piece of music that sounds like it has been crafted in the studio where it sounds like something unique then I automatically shut off. I'm not looking at the next big hit, I'm looking at new forms of making electronic music. A see a lot of hip-hop today as just preset hit loops. In fact, because of the technology, a lot of electronic music can just be cut, edited and pasted. There are more DJs than there are experimental electronic artists, so you are going to get more cut and paste hit loops than more experimental music – it's natural. When artists have a love for something and are creating – their initial goal isn't trying to create an instant hit but during the early 90's a tribe of people evolved called the 'remixers' who would look for popular artists to bring them into the mainstream. This is now an integral part of popular music culture and has basically warped what used to be an experimental open field.
Do you regret that open letter to Deadmau5 a couple of years back? Have you played any festivals with him since?
No, I don't regret it. I doubt that I would ever be asked to play at a pop festival. I'm more underground, always have been. I'm from a different type of background.
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Lack of energy and exhaustion or excuses, excuses, excuses…. But excited to still be able to take part in Gould's challenge of "Family History through the Alphabet"
From Wikipedia, the name Elizabeth or Elisabeth is the Greek transliteration of the Hebrew name Elisheva, meaning "God's promise", "oath of God", or "I am God's daughter". Elizabeth and Elisabeth are the parent unit names of Lisa, Liza, Lilly, Lizzie, Liz, Beth, Betty, Ella, Elisa, Elise, and Eliza; Elsa, Bitsy, Betsy, Isabel, and Isabella are etymologically related variants.
|Elizabeth Olive as a young girl
Elizabeth is the first name of my Great Grandmother, her full name being Elizabeth Olive Dillon, though everyone called her Lizzie. Born in 1876 in Sydney, the granddaughter of convicts and Irish bounty immigrants, "Old Nana" lived two houses away from where I was born. I called her "Old Nana" to distinguish between her and my Grandmother Doris, or "Nana" who lived next door to my family; so we had 4 generations in three houses all in a row.
She died in 1966 when I was a child, but was a huge influence on my childhood. Strong willed, with strong opinions, living for 34 years after her husband had passed away, she kept her family bound to her by that will.
|Obituary of Elizabeth Olive Dillon
"Old Nana" had a goitre that endocrinologists are amazed to see today, but Lizzie was not one to fuss with doctors.
|Elizabeth Olive Dillon, in her home
I often wondered why the majority of our family members bled Red and Green blood; were Rabid Rabbitoh's or in other words, South Sydney NRL club supporters. It was only a few weeks ago, in correspondence with another family descendant that I found out that Elizabeth Olive's uncle by marriage was Henry Clement Hoyle, who amongst other things, was a founding member of the South Sydney Rugby League Club in 1908. This I believe is the foundation of a legacy that has been passed down through at least 5 generations. So Lizzie's legacy lives on… "Go Rabbitoh's"


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Newcomers set the tone for the Bulldogs tonight, as Yale beat NYU, 21-6. Freshmen Rebecca Moss, Lidia Gocheva, and Katerine Arden all posted perfect 3-0 records and led the epee, foil, and sabre squads respectively. The Eli win is the second in as many years against the Violets, and both have come in convincing fashion.
The epee squad won six of its nine bouts. Senior Anne Nguyen posted a 1-1 record in support of Moss' strong performance. Freshman Kristin Saetveit recorded a 1-2 mark, while senior Tejas Srinivas went 1-0.
Gocheva provided the strongest performance for the foil squad. But senior Alisa Mendelsohn and junior Diana Schawlowski both won two of their three bouts.
The sabre squad displayed why so much was expected of them before the season, winning eight of the nine bouts contested. Arden and fellow freshman Farrah Kimovec (2-0) were both flawless on the night. Senior Genevieve Tauxe (1-0) and junior Erin Frey (2-1) provided the rest of the support.
The Elis travel to Waltham, Mass. for the Brandeis Invitational on Sunday.
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Kylian Lally is particular about his
precious medals.
The Dixon junior wrestles virtually year-round, and when he wins a medal from a tournament, he displays it in his room. The medals are neatly aligned in front of a "Dixon Dukes" sign. Only one time, something wasn't right. A medal was missing.
"I started freaking out. I couldn't find it, so I told my dad," Lally said. "He said I woke him, but he was already up. It was like 12 o'clock. Then I found it. It was on the floor. It was late, so I guess I wasn't thinking."
Lally will soon try to add to his medal collection, and on the line is the one he covets most.
The postseason begins Saturday at the Class 2A Rock Island Regional, and he hopes it will lead him on a path to the medal stand at the state tournament in
2 weeks.
A state medal would be the centerpiece to his collection.
"I'd put it right in the middle," the 138-pound Lally said.
Lally (32-6) has put himself in position where a long postseason run is a
possibility, if not a probability. He won his first high school tournament Dec. 8
at Sterling, and followed that up by taking top honors on Jan. 19 at the Northern Illinois Big-12 Tournament in Sycamore.
"I'm definitely happy with where I'm at right now," Lally said.
Even in defeat, Lally has shown growth. At the Princeton Tournament on Jan. 5, Lally suffered a 5-2 defeat to Dakota's Brandon Lizer in the third-place bout. Twice, Lizer subjected Lally to fireman's carries, leading to takedowns.
The wrestlers met again last Thursday in Dakota. Lizer, ranked fourth at 145 pounds by Illinois Matmen, won a 4-3 decision, but was unable to execute the moves he used to be successful before. It's all part of the maturation process, according to Dixon coach Chris Bishop.
"You could just see mentally he's starting to figure other people out," he said, "so he can adjust what he's doing to the people he's wrestling. He's picking up on things a lot of wrestlers in high school don't. Some kids go out there, they wrestle one way, and that's the way they wrestle.
"He's able to adapt himself to an opponent, and that's a good thing."
Lally has done whatever he deemed necessary to have success on the mat. After playing football his first 2 years in school, he gave that up to concentrate on wrestling. He did go out for cross country for the first time in his life, however, when is was pointed out all that running would aid his wrestling.
He ended up being the No. 7 runner for a state-qualifying squad, but there is no doubt where his athletic priorities lie.
A two-time wrestling sectional qualifier, Lally was on the state tourney bubble a year ago. He was winning a 132-pound wrestleback at the Sterling Sectional against Yorkville's Jacob Hurt before Hurt won by pin in the second period. Hurt went on to win his next match, for third place, and punch his ticket to state.
"It definitely sucked last year," Lally said. "I didn't like that feeling, and I don't want to feel it again."
Lally file
School: Dixon, junior
FYI: Currently is 32-6 at 138 poounds. ... Won titles at Sterling Invitational and NIB-12 Tournament. ... Two-time sectional qualifier


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I guess I'm just like the Mets in a way, just passing the time until spring training. Even for teams with little chances, spring training brings anticipation and hope.
I'm not going to bother you with posts about the Mets not going after guys like Matt Garza and Prince Fielder, because you know as well as I do that's not going to happen. That's not news, it is stating the obvious.
To answer the question everybody is asking: I don't know when Bud Selig will step in and do something about the drowning-in-red-ink Mets. He does have a double standard, going hard after the Dodgers' ownership while letting the Mets skate. Selig has agendas; it has been that way with him for a long time.
The Mets have close to a billion dollars in debt they must pay off in the next few years, and that doesn't even count what they might be on the hook for in the Ponzi scandal. It's not going to get any better any time soon.
Jose Reyes is one thing. They could justify not bringing him back based on their economics and his injury history. But, David Wright is another. He's arguably the the image of the franchise the Mets haven't had since Tom Seaver. Reading tweets the Mets aren't going to trade him to the Phillies offer little consolation, because we can only imagine it is a matter of time.
Wright will be a Met until at least the end of July, but other than that there are no guarantees. Privately, the Mets regret not dealing Reyes when they had the chance to get something back. They gambled and lost they could compete in the second half. Privately, they realized they had no chance in keeping him.
They can't afford to make a similar mistake with Wright. If he's healthy and playing well and the team is going nowhere, then what's the point in holding on to the dream that never happened?