Also, I'd agrue that Saudi Arabia is a monarchical theocracy.
No arguing about that, still the United Kingdom is also a monarchical theocracy and a representative democracy whereas Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchical theocracy.
How the hell can you have both Socialist (people owning the means of production) and Fascist (corporations owning the means of production) in the same sentence. They are opposites and the fascists hate the socialists and the socialists hate the fascists. Personally I like socialist ideas like co-ops, credit unions and small businesses, ideally working in a capitalist manner. I don't like fascist ideas like huge business that is not answerable to anyone, owns the government and does its best to remove freedoms like the freedom to deal with who you like in a capitalist manner. Capitalism works best with a lot of small players instead of a couple of large players who usually own the government.
Actually, in name we are The Federal Republic of the United States of America.
Which means that you are a federally organized bunch of (North) American states without a monarch. By contrast Canada is a federally organized bunch of (North) American provinces with a monarch. Both are representative democracies, unlike Saudi Arabia which is an absolute monarchy or N Korea which is republican dictatorship. Republican just means no monarch, nothing to do with democracy.
Not American so hopefully I have this right. The constitution is the highest law. The constitution can be amended and therefore changed. The very first amendment passed had something like "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;" Copyright is a law that congress has passed in such a way that an American is limited in his speech, eg can't legally sing Happy Birthday. The first amendment overrides the copyright clause in the constitution. Now in your example, I'd guess it would only be wrong if someone spoke your code, perhaps as a poem or published the text in the press, perhaps a computer magazine or an internet blog.
And you've tested this by having sex before and after getting circumcised? Considering how sensitive that piece of skin is I don't know how it couldn't hurt your sex life.
You're equating getting the most sensitive part of your dick cut off with a hair cut? A better comparison would be getting your lips removed at birth because it makes it easier to keep your teeth clean. With enough propaganda and if it is done at an early enough age to most people you would consider lips to be equal to hair.
Either way, with a heavily armed American population, good luck maintaining order. To successfully occupy America, you'd have to kill as many of us a possible.
And that is one of the main reasons that America doesn't need such a huge military.
First you say you hate Liberals then you say you want to go back to the days of Liberals. The days when official policy was to terrorize the Conservatives and steal their stuff. An age when people revolted against their government for entitlements in the way of other peoples land.
You sure you aren't American? As your knowledge of history points to being American educated. The US, Australia and Canada did not invade and defeat enemies across the ocean. They went across the the Ocean to a base on an Island just a few miles away from the mainland called the British Isles and attacked from there. Look it up, the invasion of Europe was launched from England. Also one of the main reasons for the success of the invasion was due to the USSR attacking overland from the other direction. Up the page you show ignorance of the first World War as well, namely that one of the big motivations was the moving boundaries between the belligerents. Not only is there the whole mess in the Balkans but Germany and France still had problems with their boundaries from the Franco-Prussian war, namely the Alsace-Lorraine, one of the richer parts of Europe at the time.
They do or at least did with Walters. Walters has kept up the tradition with the Dark Side of the Moon tour and his next one, the Wall tour. The Wall show was so big that they only played it in 3 or 4 venues with 5 shows or so each.
It's not so much the rich getting richer. It's the rest of us getting poorer at the same time. If all our incomes were going up, no problem. Personally I've lost work lately and have had to lower my fees to not lose more. This is after 15 years of static fees due to every one else having static wages. Meanwhile the grocery's have doubled in price. Gas has almost doubled in price. My phone keeps getting more service charges added to it and the same with my cell phone. I know I could buy a TV way cheaper now then ever but who's got the spare money to buy anything that is not necessary? The real problem seems to be the rich using their wealth to create more monopolies instead of creating more wealth like the mentioned Carlos who has a cell phone monopoly and can charge $0.50 a minute to both sides of a phone call in one of the poorer areas of the Americas instead of there being a bunch of companies competing.
The reason that people doubt his intentions is due to his history. For quite a while he was a cheap prick even though close to being the richest man in the world, charity donations usually consisted of giving away copies of Windows. This benefited him in a couple of ways, he could write of the full value of Windows even though the actual cost was very low and he made sure to donate to groups who would of used the competition or groups of young people to get them hooked. Much like the heroin dealers method of operations, the first hits are free. Then he got married and he became more generous. Personally I think that Melinda is the hero, not Bill.
Seems like those worries about herbicides affecting sexual development have some basis in fact. Makes me wonder how many other commonly used chemicals have similar side affects.
You guys have a habit of pushing your court decisions on the rest of the world so of course we're interested in your courts decisions and how they work.
Notice that you have a Canadian ISP. In Canada the courts (Federal Court of Appeal) have ruled that making personal copies is not even copyright infringement and perfectly legal. Does not sound like an exclusive right to me.
That's not uploading (at least according to the Canadian courts). Uploading would be pushing as in uploading to someones FTP server, clearly copyright infringement. If you have a FTP server with lots of MP3's and someone downloads them it is their actions that result in the file transfer.
Whether she was innocently infringing or not isn't really the point because it's fairly obvious that no teenager on the planet who pirates music doesn't know that it's illegal.
Considering there are places on the planet where downloading music is not copyright infringement why would all teenagers think it is illegal? Here in Canada for example it is perfectly legal for you to copy all my music. It only becomes illegal if I make the copies for you.
For those against the war in Afghanistan I always love to hear what other options we had or have.
A few options spring to mind. A bunch of Saudi Arabians attacked so perhaps Saudi Arabia should of been attacked? This has the advantage of bringing regime change to a very repressive government. Also perhaps all the Saudi Arabians shouldn't of been allowed to fly home so quick (first planes to fly after 9/11 were all Saudi bound). Of course the obvious one was to accept the Taliban's offer to turn over Osama Bin Laden to a neutral third party/government for trial. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/bush-rejects-taliban-offer-to-surrender-bin-laden-631436.html .
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Also, I'd agrue that Saudi Arabia is a monarchical theocracy.
No arguing about that, still the United Kingdom is also a monarchical theocracy and a representative democracy whereas Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchical theocracy.
How the hell can you have both Socialist (people owning the means of production) and Fascist (corporations owning the means of production) in the same sentence. They are opposites and the fascists hate the socialists and the socialists hate the fascists.
Personally I like socialist ideas like co-ops, credit unions and small businesses, ideally working in a capitalist manner.
I don't like fascist ideas like huge business that is not answerable to anyone, owns the government and does its best to remove freedoms like the freedom to deal with who you like in a capitalist manner.
Capitalism works best with a lot of small players instead of a couple of large players who usually own the government.
Actually, in name we are
The Federal Republic of the United States of America.
Which means that you are a federally organized bunch of (North) American states without a monarch.
By contrast Canada is a federally organized bunch of (North) American provinces with a monarch.
Both are representative democracies, unlike Saudi Arabia which is an absolute monarchy or N Korea which is republican dictatorship.
Republican just means no monarch, nothing to do with democracy.
Not American so hopefully I have this right.
The constitution is the highest law.
The constitution can be amended and therefore changed.
The very first amendment passed had something like "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;"
Copyright is a law that congress has passed in such a way that an American is limited in his speech, eg can't legally sing Happy Birthday.
The first amendment overrides the copyright clause in the constitution.
Now in your example, I'd guess it would only be wrong if someone spoke your code, perhaps as a poem or published the text in the press, perhaps a computer magazine or an internet blog.
And you've tested this by having sex before and after getting circumcised?
Considering how sensitive that piece of skin is I don't know how it couldn't hurt your sex life.
You're equating getting the most sensitive part of your dick cut off with a hair cut?
A better comparison would be getting your lips removed at birth because it makes it easier to keep your teeth clean. With enough propaganda and if it is done at an early enough age to most people you would consider lips to be equal to hair.
Either way, with a heavily armed American population, good luck maintaining order. To successfully occupy America, you'd have to kill as many of us a possible.
And that is one of the main reasons that America doesn't need such a huge military.
Be funny if that happened. Nothing left but the Republican States with no money coming in.
First you say you hate Liberals then you say you want to go back to the days of Liberals. The days when official policy was to terrorize the Conservatives and steal their stuff. An age when people revolted against their government for entitlements in the way of other peoples land.
Columbus didn't sail to the New World. He sailed to India and accidentally found the New World.
Much like if we went to Mars and landed on the Moon.
You sure you aren't American? As your knowledge of history points to being American educated.
The US, Australia and Canada did not invade and defeat enemies across the ocean. They went across the the Ocean to a base on an Island just a few miles away from the mainland called the British Isles and attacked from there. Look it up, the invasion of Europe was launched from England.
Also one of the main reasons for the success of the invasion was due to the USSR attacking overland from the other direction.
Up the page you show ignorance of the first World War as well, namely that one of the big motivations was the moving boundaries between the belligerents. Not only is there the whole mess in the Balkans but Germany and France still had problems with their boundaries from the Franco-Prussian war, namely the Alsace-Lorraine, one of the richer parts of Europe at the time.
Also I don't think they like record companies.
They do or at least did with Walters. Walters has kept up the tradition with the Dark Side of the Moon tour and his next one, the Wall tour.
The Wall show was so big that they only played it in 3 or 4 venues with 5 shows or so each.
A Celtic race that used to live in the north of the British Isles.
It's not so much the rich getting richer. It's the rest of us getting poorer at the same time.
If all our incomes were going up, no problem. Personally I've lost work lately and have had to lower my fees to not lose more. This is after 15 years of static fees due to every one else having static wages. Meanwhile the grocery's have doubled in price. Gas has almost doubled in price. My phone keeps getting more service charges added to it and the same with my cell phone.
I know I could buy a TV way cheaper now then ever but who's got the spare money to buy anything that is not necessary?
The real problem seems to be the rich using their wealth to create more monopolies instead of creating more wealth like the mentioned Carlos who has a cell phone monopoly and can charge $0.50 a minute to both sides of a phone call in one of the poorer areas of the Americas instead of there being a bunch of companies competing.
The reason that people doubt his intentions is due to his history. For quite a while he was a cheap prick even though close to being the richest man in the world, charity donations usually consisted of giving away copies of Windows. This benefited him in a couple of ways, he could write of the full value of Windows even though the actual cost was very low and he made sure to donate to groups who would of used the competition or groups of young people to get them hooked. Much like the heroin dealers method of operations, the first hits are free.
Then he got married and he became more generous.
Personally I think that Melinda is the hero, not Bill.
Seems like those worries about herbicides affecting sexual development have some basis in fact. Makes me wonder how many other commonly used chemicals have similar side affects.
You guys have a habit of pushing your court decisions on the rest of the world so of course we're interested in your courts decisions and how they work.
Notice that you have a Canadian ISP. In Canada the courts (Federal Court of Appeal) have ruled that making personal copies is not even copyright infringement and perfectly legal. Does not sound like an exclusive right to me.
That's not uploading (at least according to the Canadian courts). Uploading would be pushing as in uploading to someones FTP server, clearly copyright infringement.
If you have a FTP server with lots of MP3's and someone downloads them it is their actions that result in the file transfer.
Actually it was the Federal Court of Appeals that made the ruling. The CRIA never did make the final appeal to the Supreme Court.
But letting someone download from your computer is legal.
The first thing that comes to mind is American Women, http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/american-woman-lyrics-the-guess-who/f932c3efb2ae557048256ce90029fc2d .
Whether she was innocently infringing or not isn't really the point because it's fairly obvious that no teenager on the planet who pirates music doesn't know that it's illegal.
Considering there are places on the planet where downloading music is not copyright infringement why would all teenagers think it is illegal?
Here in Canada for example it is perfectly legal for you to copy all my music. It only becomes illegal if I make the copies for you.
For those against the war in Afghanistan I always love to hear what other options we had or have.
A few options spring to mind.
A bunch of Saudi Arabians attacked so perhaps Saudi Arabia should of been attacked? This has the advantage of bringing regime change to a very repressive government.
Also perhaps all the Saudi Arabians shouldn't of been allowed to fly home so quick (first planes to fly after 9/11 were all Saudi bound).
Of course the obvious one was to accept the Taliban's offer to turn over Osama Bin Laden to a neutral third party/government for trial. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/bush-rejects-taliban-offer-to-surrender-bin-laden-631436.html .