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Henry V .009 writes with a link to Zed Shaw's "newest rant," which gives a cogent description of his reasons for choosing the not-always-popular GPL for his own code: "Honestly, how many of you people who use open source tell your boss what you're using? How many of you tell investors that your entire operation is based on something one guy wrote in a few months? How many of you out there go to management and say, 'Hey, you know there's this guy Zed who wrote the software I'm using, why don't we hire him as a consultant?' You don't. None of you. You take the software, and use it like Excalibur to slay your dragon and then take the credit for it. You don't give out any credit, and in fact, I've ran into a vast majority of you who constantly try to say that I can't code as a way of covering your ass."
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Can I get my random blog on the front page of Slashdot?
(Of course, if my name were Bennett Haselton, I could just use the front page of Slashdot as my blog.)
Nice try. No one's hands are deadly weapons in any state. Get your facts right.
My 2 Euros.
You do realize the whole reason for the "My 2 Cents" is a play on words for sense, as in common sense.. My 2 Euros defeats the whole purpose of the saying...
-=[ Who Is John Galt? ]=-
The laws against martial artists (boxers included) do not prevent us from defending ourselves, only that we are held to a higher standard when we fail to stop when the assailant is subdued. If I throw a punch at a professional boxer, he is within is rights to bash my nose in to make me stop, but once I surrender, that's it - he can't keep beating me to give me a concussion.
At least that's how it should work in the real world.
~chris~
white-belt for life.
Boxing doesn't have belts, apart from big shiny ones as prizes.
Not exactly, but a trained fighter is not allowed to use their training against a normal slob as it is deemed "unreasonable force". Like bringing a gun to a knife fight. So the definition is close.
Where the hell did you get this stupidity from? Quote me one legal line, one article that says so. I've lived in three different countries, in each I've heard the same crap, and in each I've it's proven to be just that, bull, a urban legend. I'll take that back, I'm currently in Florida, where I know that's not the case. Who knows, there might be another wacky state in the Union that might have such a law. But until then, quote me one single legal passage that says so.
I've known a couple of amateur boxers, one retired kickboxer, three MMA fighters and quite a few BJJers. Each of them had said exactly what I'm telling you now: That the legal restriction you are talking about regarding trained fighters is complete unsubstantiated bullshit.
There are no laws preventing trained fighters from using their hands, at least in the three countries I've been, and certainly not in the state of Florida. Maybe where you live that's true. But I'd suggest you put your assumptions to the test and quote the legal passage, the one and actual ZOMG!11 legal passage that makes that stipulation.
Are you kidding? A brick in the face can easily kill someone, or worse permanently disable them if you destroy an eye. The cop would shoot you in a heartbeat. Preferably with a taser, but a gun if need be. A brick is definitely a deadly weapon. In the end, it's better to be judged by twelve than carried by six. If you don't want to get shot at by the police, don't throw things at them.
Anonymous fails to mention that said brown belt was an eight year old. Anonymous also probably doesn't realize that "brown belt" without further clarification doesn't mean much anything at all.
Well, I saw it in Con-Air. Does that count?
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!