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First of all, she called it "disingenous", not "disgusting". The words don't mean the same thing at all, and are not even similar except insofar as each has a negative connotation and begins with the letters "d", "i", and "s".

Second, and far more importantly, Hilary Rosen is as fine a piece of overweight, pasty-skinned, lesbian ass as the world has ever seen. Please refrain from making such disparaging, patently libelous, remarks about her looks in the future, or you will suffer the legal consequences, you piece of stinking shit.

free market
n.

An economic market in which supply and demand are not regulated or are regulated with only minor restrictions.

I guess since a free market has never existed anywhere, ever you have a point that I don't have history on my side. Do you think we have a free market in the United States? I don't. This isn't my theory, it started with Adam Smith.

My definition of temporary is 'not permanent', so, yeah, 'decades long' qualifies.

The only way anything in this case could fall under the anti-SLAPP laws is if PanIP sued the poster for slander.

SLAPP is merely a special case of barratry, the practice of filing frivolous lawsuits. Barratry is a crime in many jurisdictions and can get a lawyer kicked out of the Bar.

You just pinpointed THE problem with the second amendment of the US constitution. Any fucking clueless moron can have a gun.

Actually, the mentally incompetent are prohibited from possessing firearms. I'm fairly sure that morons would fall into that group. Convicted felons and those who are dishonorably discharged from military service (the two are roughly equivalent) are also excluded. Outside of those groups, there is no moral or legal basis to prohibit possession or use of a gun.

Wow that is a very good theory you have come up with. It's shame other people aren't as smart you ! ! !

You are confused as to the meaning of the word "upshot":

upshot n.
1. The injection of liquid into the rectum through the anus for cleansing, for stimulating evacuation of the bowels, or for other therapeutic or diagnostic purposes.
2. The fluid so injected.

Not really

The heat pipe contains a liquid/gas that changes phase around the operational temperature of the device you wish to cool. At the hot end of the pipe, the liquid evaporates, sucking up the heat of vaporization. The vapor travels to cold end of the pipe, and condenses there, releasing heat. The inside of the pipe is specially-designed so as to use capilliary action to draw the liquid back to the hot end of the pipe. What all this does is give you a pipe that has an effective thermal conductivity many, many times better than a hunk of copper (which is already a damn good thermal conductor).

Note: I'm as anonymous for protection from the hipocrats...

Woo, there is another! I thought I was the only one who needed protection from a medical practitioner who is regarded as the father of medicine.

infinite != indefinite

smarty pants.

infinite != indefinite

smarty pants.

Please, learn the proper English plural of the word 'virus.'

There's no need to be making up words in hopes of sounding smarter. You only end up looking silly.

Please, learn the proper English plural of the word 'virus.'

There's no need to be making up words in hopes of sounding smarter. You only end up looking silly.

From dictionary.com's first definition,"The collecting, writing, editing, and presenting of news or news articles in newspapers and magazines and in radio and television broadcasts" -slashdot fits the collecting part.

True, slashdot just posts links to the stories, but is that much different than a site or newspaper printing an AP wire story? It's not their story, but the ones posting still have to take responsibility for it.

It's more indicative of the quality of slashdot when people say it's not real journalism. The only people who can fix that is the slashdot staff.

I'll done learn you to criticize my English.

What's pathetic about my use of nonstandard American is that I've actually been paid to teach English, and have over 500 classroom hours of experience! :-)

Ok, Mr. Quayle, how could you misspell misspell? I mean it is all over the place on Slashot.

Slashdot's 'correction' is incorrect.

The additional resources directly effected the learning experience of our students. 'Effected' means 'to produce as a result' or 'to bring about'. So the additional resources created a learning experience. 'Affect' would have been right here as well; it would have meant that the resources influenced the learning experience.

'Effect' is often used incorrectly where 'affect' should be used, as in the incorrect 'Her smile effected my mood.' This, however, isn't one of those incorrect usages.

Please, learn the proper English plural of the word 'virus.'

There's no need to be making up words in hopes of sounding smarter. You only end up looking silly.

It's theft, that's what it is! It's just like shoplifting--no, bank robbery!

No, not bank robbery...

n 1: robbery on the high seas; taking a ship away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it syn: buccaneering

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The parent should be modded up, imo.

For those of you too lazy to do it yourself:

A republic is an implementation of democracy, they aren't mutually exclusive. A democracy is a government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives. A republic is a political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them.

Being a consitutional republic doesn't change that, as the consitution can be ammended to allow killing Socrates. It just makes it harder.

A republic is an implementation of democracy, they aren't mutually exclusive. A democracy is a government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives. A republic is a political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them.

Being a consitutional republic doesn't change that, as the consitution can be ammended to allow killing Socrates. It just makes it harder.

Ink is a fungible; it gets used up, and you have to buy more.

That word, I do not think it means what you think it means

Get a new word. Fungible doesn't quite fit. Try consumable

Get a new word. Fungible doesn't quite fit. Try consumable

Looks like everybody on the thread is using the proper definition of indentured except you.

With H1B the agreement is with the government, not with the employer. The employer is more like a homeroom monitor.

There is no criminal or civil penalty for breaking this contract, other than returning to your nation of origin.

However, the real issue is whether this is involuntary servitude. Whomever mentioned Ammendment XIII as outlawing indenture is incorrect. Involuntary servitude is what is prohibited by the US Constitution.

So, are you trying to tell us all that these workers were captured by rival tribes, sold to American slave traders and brought to the USA to work as slaves or are you saying there is some moral component to this that you keep skipping over? Pleas wait until you are breathing normally before answering.

Sceptical is an alternative spelling, dumbshoes.

I've never heard this word before, what does it mean? Nervy as in nervous? Nervy as in 'having a lot of nerv', Nervy as in 'like the fictitious NERV organization in Neon Genesis Evangelon'

Just a click away, dictionary.com has the answer.

(was this a "a nervy thing to say"?)

Bleh.

A Pagan is defined as;

n.

3. A non-Christian.

adj.

1. Not Christian, Muslim, or Jewish.

3. Neo-Pagan.



If the daughter was some deranged wacko who actually DID THINK she was talking to the evil one that indeed, she WOULD BE CONSIDERED A PAGAN.

While there may not be a world wide conspiracy of devil worshipers running around, there are indeed a few nut bags now and then who may think they are doing something eeeviilll. In this case obviously her delusions went /way/ to far.

When pagan was used it obviously was not referring to the cute and cuddly "hug all the woodland creatures" new age neo-pagans, who to their credit have turned out some rather decent works of art.

(and that is all I am giving them. Well ok, and they also have a tendency to tie themselves to trees to help stop big corporations, which I have absolutely no problem with either. :) )

Ok, you do know that Spiderman often wore his Web shooters under his street clothes (and also often the whole costume except the mask.)

The "organic Web shooters" thing is implausable too. How come the Web shooters are conveniently located in his wrists? In those Spider-Goats they created, the spider silk protein is only produced by their genetically engineered mammary glands when they lactate. (Note, they are female spider-goats.) I mean this is a still the story of a young photographer who gets bitten by a radioactive spider, right? It isn't even remotely plausable that he would get "spider powers" from that. So, why are we worrying about "plausibility?"

So, if it doesn't bother me that it isn't plausible, why does it bother me? Because it was pretty cool that Parker could come up with cool technology when he needed to. What about the spider tracers that he could track via his spider sense? How are they going to explain those? More convenient organic tech? Raimi has boxed himself into a version of Spider-Man that has to become more and more divergent from canon.

Now, despite my disappointment with certain details of the plot, I'm not saying it is a bad movie. Sam Raimi has done pretty well with other stories. It'll be "his" Spider Man (as opposed to "the" Spider Man), but I worry that the evil suits had some influence on the film. I won't see it, of course, until one of my friends or family inevitably rents it (or worse, buys it). MPAA bad, Sony bad, after all.

\An"ge*lus\, n. [L.] (R. C. Ch.) (a) A form of devotion in which three Ave Marias are repeated. It is said at morning, noon, and evening, at the sound of a bell.

What I said, was that if the linkee doesn't want to be "deep linked" they should absolutely have that perrogative.

Cease and desist letters whining about deep links are barratry, plain and simple.

Not according to
dictionary.com.

Please, learn the proper English plural of the word 'virus.'

There is no need to be making up words in hopes of sounding smarter. You only end up looking foolish...

Please, learn the proper English plural of the word 'virus.'

There's no need to be making up words in hopes of sounding smarter. You only end up looking silly.

Take the Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard, he may be 50-60 years old, he may have went to school at Yale, he may be very successful in the world, but hes still an ignorant racist leader of the KKK.

Ignorant, no. Evil, yes.

Hitler, a military genius, was ignorant as hell.

Ignorant, no. Evil, yes.

Bin Laden, highly educated, a genius, but ignorant as hell.

Ignorant, no. Evil, yes.

Ignorance has nothing to do with knowledge, nothing to do with age, and everything to do with your way of thinking. Ignorant people usually are easily influenced by others.

I was not attempting to flame, I was using the word by it's Dictionary definition. I guess words have no meaning anymore, sigh.

"trumph"?

perhaps you meant "trump"?

"trumph"?

perhaps you meant "trump"?

Bullshit, I don't buy it.

Asking permission "because he's a nice guy", sure. That I can explain as "nice."

When it comes to money, he's not foolish. He's (okay, his record company is...) writing large checks to the authors of music he parodies. Nice? No way. That's a royalty payment by definition.

• royalty
  • 
    (Skipping parts 1 to 7, which refer to monarchies, kingdoms, etc...)

    8: "A share paid to a writer or composer out of the proceeds resulting from the sale or performance of his or her work."

In closing, you might wish to read some of the Weird Al FAQ, which addresses this situation:

• Does Al get permission to do his parodies?

  Al does get permission from the original writers of the songs that he parodies. While the law supports his ability to parody without permission, he feels it's important for him to maintain the relationships that he's built with artists and writers over the years. Plus, Al wants to make sure that he gets his songwriter credit (as writer of new lyrics) as well as his rightful share of the royalties.

• What do the original artists think of the parodies?

  Most artists are genuinely flattered and consider it an honor to have Weird Al parody their work. Some groups (including Nirvana) claim that they didn't realize that they had really "made it" until Weird Al did a parody of them!

• What about Coolio? I heard that he was upset with Al about "Amish Paradise."

  That was a very unfortunate case of misunderstanding between Al's people and Coolio's people. Short version of the story: Al recorded "Amish Paradise" after being told by his record label that Coolio had given his permission for the parody. When Al's album came out, Coolio publicly contended that he had never given his blessing, and that he was in fact very offended by the song. Al immediately sent Coolio a very sincere letter of apology for the misunderstanding, but has yet to hear back from him.

Milliard is not used in the US. Billion is used instead

following the FRONT PAGE LINK on privacy impact statements, one finds that the senator in question is in fact Mr. Barr of Georgia. Also...if you're going to sling a baseless insult at the argument given, at -least- use real verbs and spell them correctly

That's called barratry and it's actually illegal: If you threaten groundless legal action to blackmail or intimidate, you are abusing the legal system in an unsavoury way and I believe in most Western nations you can face criminal or civil punishment.

Please, learn the proper English plural of the word 'virus.'

There's no need to be making up words in hopes of sounding smarter. You only end up looking silly.

Now, sod off and come back when you've grown enough of a spine to get an account, AC.

deface

destroy

deface

destroy

from the endtroducing-the-MFS! dept.

licensing source code so that the information is always open for use, modification and redistribution providing there is no direct capitalistic gain could definitely be described as a communist ideal, though some might describe it as more anarchist, freedom of information is common to both, while as modern capitalism particually attempts to turn all information into a commodity

Look it up:

Daimon or alternate spelling Daemon

It's a name for a type of spirit that assists people in their daily lives. It has nothing to do with Christianity, Paganism, Satanism, etc.

The problem with your scenario is that Microsoft is not giving people a choice. If you buy a computer from Dell, Compaq, etc. you pretty much have to buy Windows because that's the way MS's licensing practices work.

The solution is not to make microsoft sell a stripped version of windows. The solution is to make microsoft change their licensing practices to allow manufacturers to bundle whatever else they want with the OS.

Were you trying to be clever when you said "fecescious" or do you just need a dictionary?