But if addressing the symptoms turns out to solve the problem more effectively, who cares?
addressing the symptoms may make them disappear, but the cause will rear its ugly head elsewhere. let's say salad bars are infected with bacteria because the salad is old & moldy. Sure, we can kill the bacteria, but does that deal with the toxins in the rotting food on the line? Would you want to eat rotten lettuce, even if it is bacteria free?
When I run bearshare, the file ranked highest on my hit-list is almost always the "Crazytown - Lollipop Porn" mp3. I wonder if that would be considered "inappropriate content"...
according to a recent Ludwig von Mises institute article (warning: libertarian writings ahead) on the dot com crash, we can blame the federal reserve bank:
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Sure enough, when you look at the Federal Reserve policy of the late 1990s, you find dramatic inflation of the core measures of the money stock (M2, M3, and MZM [M1 no longer has much meaning because of financial deregulation]). These core measures hit bottom in 1995 and then began a straight upward climb until peaking in early 1999. By 2000, a long fall in the rate of increase was evident in all three, until earlier this year, when the Fed turned on the spigots once again. Why can't the Fed keep going indefinitely? That way lies hyperinflation.
This pattern closely tracks the run-up and subsequent collapse of Internet stocks. Because of the loose money policies of the Fed, venture capitalists enjoyed a huge increase in funds available for investment. What they may or may not have known is that the funding was an illusion created by the central bank. It wasn't based on savings (which actually fell during the same period), and the investments they made were not based on a realistic assessment of firms' earning potential.
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...teh gov't who probably would lose half my benefits if I changed #'s.
half of almost nothing is still almost nothing. I haven't been following it all that closely, but didn't George W.'s social security task force say recently that without reforms the social security system was going to start going broke in 15 years or so? And that they'd have to cut "your benefits" to keep the system solevant? Another argument for not "investing" 15% of your yearly wages with "the government". (What's that you say? "it's only 7.5%?" Tell me all employers would keep their matching 7.5% if they didn't have to pay the social insecurity tax, i'll laugh at you).
you could just stop using "your" SS# entirely. Get rid of all the credit cards you gave the number to, change your driver licence number (if you have one, notice there's no 's', at least in Arizona, most other states too I believe), open new bank accounts without the number attached (US banks only need a number [TIN or SSN] for interest bearing accounts), change your employment structure so that you won't need a number (contract work, or use a payroll service like American Contracting Services), etc.
There are some good suggestions under "GENERAL ADVICE ON OPERATING WITHOUT A SSN" towards the bottom of this page..
I've tried to teach my thinkpad 600E to fly a number of times (the power cord occassionally gets wrapped around my leg)... The first time it did a perfect 180-degree spin, the screen cleanly snapped shut on hitting the chair, and it did a perfect four-point landing on the floor (which was about as hard as concrete). It still worked (generally), but the hard drive started to act up, so it was replaced a few weeks later. I tried again a few weeks ago, and it didn't suffer any consequences this time. But you're right, I can't imagine throwing the thing to someone across the room..
If you "bend and stretch [the rules] to your will", you are certainly breaking the intent of the rule. So in canada, you're breaking the legislature's intent to steal 30% or 40% or 80% (whatever the rate may be) of your "income", but having learned the rules, you've "done it properly."
The Dalai Lama's Instructions for Life
Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great
risk.
When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
Follow the three R's:
- Respect for self.
- Respect for others.
- Responsibility for all of your actions.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke
of luck.
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct
it.
Spend some time alone every day.
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back,
you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation.
Don't bring up the past.
Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
Be gentle with the earth.
Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for
each other exceeds your need for each other.
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
Too bad they seems to be centered around taking away rights and wasting money.
rights are only "taken away" from people who do not know how to demand them (and I don't use "demand" in a "protester in front of the capital building with a sign" sorta way, but rather knowing how to respond when some terrorist burreacrat shows up making demands of you). "the feds" are like the wizard of oz - big and scarry until toto draws back the curtain.
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sounds kinda like borrowed genius to me...
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Marcus imagined that he was a lawyer, so he became a lawyer. It's a very useful talent, applicable for any number of skills you want to learn... Borrowed Genius/Periscope learning
How to learn through a periscope
We had enrolled our 4-year-old daughter in a neighborhood swim team, not for the sake of competing but simply for safety reasons, to ensure she would be competent in the water. During one of the team's meets, in one heat a clerical error had her swim as the only small kid among 8-, 9- and 10-year-olds. To our amazement, she swam far faster than ever before and finished right in the middle of the pack.
"How did you do that?!?" we asked her. Her reply: "I made-believe I was one of the big kids."
I still remember when people started pushing for mandatory seat belt laws, dismissing as paranoid nuts anyone who suggested that cops would be pulling drivers over at random to make sure they're wearing seat belts. Well, now that cops are doing exactly that, where are these people now?
Remember the recent riots in Cincinatti? The ones that got started when police shot a black man who was running from them? Does anyone know why they shot him?
It boils down to this: he didn't want to wear his seat belt.
Read the rest of it here: "... Of course, it wasn't quite that simple. He had received several seat-belt violations and hadn't paid any of his tickets. He had refused to respond to court orders. So, when they pulled him over on that fateful day, all the police knew about him was that there was a warrant for his arrest. They didn't know at the time that it was for seat-belt violations.
As for the man, we don't know what he was thinking, exactly, but he clearly didn't want to be arrested by the police. He took off in his car and led the police on a high-speed chase, which ended in his own death when the police thought he reached for a gun and shot him. He died over the seat-belt law."
oh come on, this type of speech is rampant in journalism and [american] liguistics today. Ever hear things like, "The Macedonian Government said Milosevic could be extradited...", "The United States extends its deepest condolences to the families of the soldiers killed in action", etc, ad infinitum. Lots of journalists put words into non-existant (in that they only exist as an idea in someone's conception of reality) entities' mouths, this is only the same concept abstracted to a degree you haven't seen before.
don't like how the u.s. government scans your passport upon entering the country at a controlled access point to see if you've filed a tax return recently? just get a passport from another country. I hear the Cayman Islands will let you become a "citizen" as long as you have enough money to take care of yourself...
oh, this is about microsoft's passport system? uhm, same thing applies, just get a different passport (account) w/ a different provider (isp).
Increasingly, researchers can engineer crops so they carry the pesticide, dramatically reducing or even eliminating the need for spraying. Less spraying means less unintended destruction of noninvasive insects - a net plus for the environment, researchers say.
Data sez: yummy, life-form killing plants. Good thing my internals are made of metal & silicon, don't have to worry about pesty things like injesting pesticides.
but wait a sec, what am I, an inorganic android, eating plants for?
Genetically engineered corn requires less pesticide spray...
thanks, but I'll pass on your pesticide tomatos & corn, and stick with my Organically engineered, pesticide free food products, thankyouverymuch. rah-rah, biotech for industry, just keep it off my plate!
sure. By staying our of the sun, you're denying your skin the opportunity to synthesize vitamin D, essential for keeping calcium in your bones. So you won't get skin cancer, you'll just become osteoporotic by the time your 40th birthday rolls around.:)
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one possible reason kids can't pay attention...
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ever heard of a developmental optometrist? Neither had I, until a guy I'd gone to visit did some simple tests on my vision system...
Question: What was the name of your first high school math teacher? (please think about it, ask your friends too)
Did you noticed where your eyes moved? Whenever you access your memory, your eyes will tend to move in one direction or another. My eyes go straight up. Where do your friend's eyes move? Kids (& adults too, i suppose) with poor memories will tend to not have a very strong eye movement when they access their memory system.
Another thing developmental optometrists do is check your eye-tracking ability. (this is the quick test that was done on me). Simply (though the doctors do a more advanced version): take the tip of a pen, ask your subject to focus on it. Move it around his/her field of vision, across upper, center, and lower arcs (and in & out in the center too), smoothly but with random changes in direction. Watch your subject's eyes for "stuttering" and/or losing the target completely. When this test was done on me, both eyes did well tracking the pencil eraser, except my left eye lost in in the lower left arc, and had to jump to find it again. spooky.
Difficulties tracking in the various arcs have been found to correspond on different (negative) behavior patterns (and I really wish I had my materials here with me to say what they are). Such things as not being able to hold your attention on anything for very long, difficulty emphasizing w/ other's emotions (classic school-yard bully syndrome), misc. other learning difficulties (such as ex. us of a president Lyndon & Lady Bird Johnsons' daughter experienced).
so back ontopic, maybe the whole thing about people not paying much attention starts with defects in their visual systems? The issue is a helluva lot more complex than that, but this is certainly important.. I found a doctor through babousa (link below), I hope to have a stronger attention after I start (assuming I will) vision therapy next monday..
As you know, my son graduated vision therapy last week. It has been an amazing process to see the changes in his attitude and behavior over the past six months since he began the therapy.
I must admit, in the beginning, my husband and I were extremely skeptical about the whole vision therapy process. It seemed as though it was a newfangled, hip medical condition that everyone was being diagnosed with. We only signed on because if there were a chance that you were correct in your diagnosis, we owed it to our son to explore that possibility.
When he started the therapy, he was a child who did not take on academic challenges well. We were told he was bright, but his reports from teachers did not mirror that evaluation. There were always reports that he could be performing better. In addition, he had developed a variety of subtle "tics" which were constantly changing, but it was clear that he was not happy in his own skin. At one point, a respected neurologist, to whom we had gone, diagnosed him with mild "A.D.D." and suggested putting him on drugs if the issues did not improve.
You must understand that all of these issues were subtle. He was a child that everyone liked. He was not a problem in school. He was not the kind of kid who was obviously troubled or making trouble. He was just not performing to his potential and was internalizing his stress. We took him to see you based on a recommendation from my friend whose child had similar issues and was in vision therapy.
It was a slow, gradual process, but about a month into the therapy, we began to see behavioral changes. He was more cooperative at home and at school. Over the next several months, he unilaterally decided to elevate himself into the highest spelling group in his class. He began to get perfect scores and even took on bonus words with enthusiasm. He started to read without complaining and actually started enjoying books. His teacher began telling me that he was raising his hand more and contributing. His math skills improved tremendously as did his self-esteem.
Children with undetected vision problems are sometimes inaccurately diagnosed as having ADD or ADHD.">ADD/ADHD, Vision and Learning
Comments on undetected vision problems
Children with undetected vision problems are sometimes inaccurately diagnosed as having ADD or ADHD.
airplane tickets are awesome, I'd love to get one in an area where I'd be able to fight it (ie, not in Illinois on a road trip from New York to Arizona)... 'Cause you have to have all three people involved show up:
1. The cop, to identify you as the "driver" of the "vehicle".
2. The observer, to testify as to the speed he calculated your vehicle going.
3. The pilot, to testify where he was flying on the given day.
make 'em fight for their extortion money, that's my philosophy.:)
money:
[Middle English moneie, from Old French, from Latin monta, mint, coinage, from Monta, epithet of Juno, temple of Juno of Rome where money was coined.]
So the word "money" descends from latin words for 'mint' or coin, which implies metal. The word "money" has evolved in recent years to mean anything which says "this note is legal tender for all debts, public and private". Sorta like how the meaning of "driver" evolved - a "driver" used to be someone who operated a stage coach, limosine, taxicab, etc, for hire, now it [commonly] refers to anyone who's behind the wheel of a "motor vehicle".
Same thing's happening in the Cayman banks, I believe (privacy being chipped away, that is). If you're looking for privacy, I hear Panama is a good place to go, it's on all three (or four?) "blacklists" for money laundering..
just 'cause it's always been true in the past doesn't mean that it will always be true for the future... The proverbial "they" say the only two certain things in life are death and taxes, well, I know plenty of people that don't deal with taxes much (or at all, even).. and with technology & human understanding progressing at the rate it does, a "cure" for death may not be too far off. (not to imply that that'd be a good thing, that's another issue entirely).
The thing is that game developers are never going to be able to stop people from creating cheats.
I think it best to never say never. What's true today may not be true tomorrow.
All of whom knew they were breaking the law and willingly accepted the risk that entailed.
As the saying goes - if you're gonna commit the crime, you better be willing to do the time.
There's a difference between breaking the law in a "let's go rob a bank" sense ("knowingly breaking the law and williningly accepting the risk that entailed") and breaking the law in a "I have every right to do [whatever]" sense. If I believe I have every right to do something, why should I be willing to "do the time" because someone else has decided that I shouldn't?
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addressing the symptoms may make them disappear, but the cause will rear its ugly head elsewhere. let's say salad bars are infected with bacteria because the salad is old & moldy. Sure, we can kill the bacteria, but does that deal with the toxins in the rotting food on the line? Would you want to eat rotten lettuce, even if it is bacteria free?
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and here we have yet another example of addressing the symptoms (baaad bacteria on food) and not the cause (dirty preparation environment)...
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When I run bearshare, the file ranked highest on my hit-list is almost always the "Crazytown - Lollipop Porn" mp3. I wonder if that would be considered "inappropriate content"...
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according to a recent Ludwig von Mises institute article (warning: libertarian writings ahead) on the dot com crash, we can blame the federal reserve bank:
...
Sure enough, when you look at the Federal Reserve policy of the late 1990s, you find dramatic inflation of the core measures of the money stock (M2, M3, and MZM [M1 no longer has much meaning because of financial deregulation]). These core measures hit bottom in 1995 and then began a straight upward climb until peaking in early 1999. By 2000, a long fall in the rate of increase was evident in all three, until earlier this year, when the Fed turned on the spigots once again. Why can't the Fed keep going indefinitely? That way lies hyperinflation.
This pattern closely tracks the run-up and subsequent collapse of Internet stocks. Because of the loose money policies of the Fed, venture capitalists enjoyed a huge increase in funds available for investment. What they may or may not have known is that the funding was an illusion created by the central bank. It wasn't based on savings (which actually fell during the same period), and the investments they made were not based on a realistic assessment of firms' earning potential.
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It's only a requirement if your parents want to deduct you off of their "income tax", or if they save money in your name.
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half of almost nothing is still almost nothing. I haven't been following it all that closely, but didn't George W.'s social security task force say recently that without reforms the social security system was going to start going broke in 15 years or so? And that they'd have to cut "your benefits" to keep the system solevant? Another argument for not "investing" 15% of your yearly wages with "the government". (What's that you say? "it's only 7.5%?" Tell me all employers would keep their matching 7.5% if they didn't have to pay the social insecurity tax, i'll laugh at you).
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There are some good suggestions under "GENERAL ADVICE ON OPERATING WITHOUT A SSN" towards the bottom of this page..
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I've tried to teach my thinkpad 600E to fly a number of times (the power cord occassionally gets wrapped around my leg)... The first time it did a perfect 180-degree spin, the screen cleanly snapped shut on hitting the chair, and it did a perfect four-point landing on the floor (which was about as hard as concrete). It still worked (generally), but the hard drive started to act up, so it was replaced a few weeks later. I tried again a few weeks ago, and it didn't suffer any consequences this time. But you're right, I can't imagine throwing the thing to someone across the room..
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If you "bend and stretch [the rules] to your will", you are certainly breaking the intent of the rule. So in canada, you're breaking the legislature's intent to steal 30% or 40% or 80% (whatever the rate may be) of your "income", but having learned the rules, you've "done it properly."
The Dalai Lama's Instructions for Life
- Respect for self.
- Respect for others.
- Responsibility for all of your actions.
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rights are only "taken away" from people who do not know how to demand them (and I don't use "demand" in a "protester in front of the capital building with a sign" sorta way, but rather knowing how to respond when some terrorist burreacrat shows up making demands of you). "the feds" are like the wizard of oz - big and scarry until toto draws back the curtain.
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How to learn through a periscope
We had enrolled our 4-year-old daughter in a neighborhood swim team, not for the sake of competing but simply for safety reasons, to ensure she would be competent in the water. During one of the team's meets, in one heat a clerical error had her swim as the only small kid among 8-, 9- and 10-year-olds. To our amazement, she swam far faster than ever before and finished right in the middle of the pack.
"How did you do that?!?" we asked her. Her reply: "I made-believe I was one of the big kids."
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are people supposed to just throw their money at them to finance $1.2 billion monstrosities such as the bellagio? oh, wait...
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Remember the recent riots in Cincinatti? The ones that got started when police shot a black man who was running from them? Does anyone know why they shot him?
It boils down to this: he didn't want to wear his seat belt.
Read the rest of it here: "... Of course, it wasn't quite that simple. He had received several seat-belt violations and hadn't paid any of his tickets. He had refused to respond to court orders. So, when they pulled him over on that fateful day, all the police knew about him was that there was a warrant for his arrest. They didn't know at the time that it was for seat-belt violations.
As for the man, we don't know what he was thinking, exactly, but he clearly didn't want to be arrested by the police. He took off in his car and led the police on a high-speed chase, which ended in his own death when the police thought he reached for a gun and shot him. He died over the seat-belt law."
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I would. Why? I want to live. Fuck "the law", for me it's self preservation.
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oh come on, this type of speech is rampant in journalism and [american] liguistics today. Ever hear things like, "The Macedonian Government said Milosevic could be extradited ...", "The United States extends its deepest condolences to the families of the soldiers killed in action", etc, ad infinitum. Lots of journalists put words into non-existant (in that they only exist as an idea in someone's conception of reality) entities' mouths, this is only the same concept abstracted to a degree you haven't seen before.
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oh, this is about microsoft's passport system? uhm, same thing applies, just get a different passport (account) w/ a different provider (isp).
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Increasingly, researchers can engineer crops so they carry the pesticide, dramatically reducing or even eliminating the need for spraying. Less spraying means less unintended destruction of noninvasive insects - a net plus for the environment, researchers say.
Data sez: yummy, life-form killing plants. Good thing my internals are made of metal & silicon, don't have to worry about pesty things like injesting pesticides.
but wait a sec, what am I, an inorganic android, eating plants for?
Genetically engineered corn requires less pesticide spray ...
thanks, but I'll pass on your pesticide tomatos & corn, and stick with my Organically engineered, pesticide free food products, thankyouverymuch. rah-rah, biotech for industry, just keep it off my plate!
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sure. By staying our of the sun, you're denying your skin the opportunity to synthesize vitamin D, essential for keeping calcium in your bones. So you won't get skin cancer, you'll just become osteoporotic by the time your 40th birthday rolls around. :)
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ever heard of a developmental optometrist? Neither had I, until a guy I'd gone to visit did some simple tests on my vision system...
Question: What was the name of your first high school math teacher?(please think about it, ask your friends too)
Did you noticed where your eyes moved? Whenever you access your memory, your eyes will tend to move in one direction or another. My eyes go straight up. Where do your friend's eyes move? Kids (& adults too, i suppose) with poor memories will tend to not have a very strong eye movement when they access their memory system.
Another thing developmental optometrists do is check your eye-tracking ability. (this is the quick test that was done on me). Simply (though the doctors do a more advanced version): take the tip of a pen, ask your subject to focus on it. Move it around his/her field of vision, across upper, center, and lower arcs (and in & out in the center too), smoothly but with random changes in direction. Watch your subject's eyes for "stuttering" and/or losing the target completely. When this test was done on me, both eyes did well tracking the pencil eraser, except my left eye lost in in the lower left arc, and had to jump to find it again. spooky.
Difficulties tracking in the various arcs have been found to correspond on different (negative) behavior patterns (and I really wish I had my materials here with me to say what they are). Such things as not being able to hold your attention on anything for very long, difficulty emphasizing w/ other's emotions (classic school-yard bully syndrome), misc. other learning difficulties (such as ex. us of a president Lyndon & Lady Bird Johnsons' daughter experienced).
so back ontopic, maybe the whole thing about people not paying much attention starts with defects in their visual systems? The issue is a helluva lot more complex than that, but this is certainly important.. I found a doctor through babousa (link below), I hope to have a stronger attention after I start (assuming I will) vision therapy next monday..
Baltimore Academy for Behavioral Optometry (BABO) - has some articles on Behavioral Vision Care, though the site is mainly for care providers.
vision-therapy.com - check out their success stories. From the first one:
http://www.add-adhd.org/, look at ADD/ADHD, Vision and Learning: Comments on undetected vision problems by Dr. Donald J. GetzAs you know, my son graduated vision therapy last week. It has been an amazing process to see the changes in his attitude and behavior over the past six months since he began the therapy.
I must admit, in the beginning, my husband and I were extremely skeptical about the whole vision therapy process. It seemed as though it was a newfangled, hip medical condition that everyone was being diagnosed with. We only signed on because if there were a chance that you were correct in your diagnosis, we owed it to our son to explore that possibility.
When he started the therapy, he was a child who did not take on academic challenges well. We were told he was bright, but his reports from teachers did not mirror that evaluation. There were always reports that he could be performing better. In addition, he had developed a variety of subtle "tics" which were constantly changing, but it was clear that he was not happy in his own skin. At one point, a respected neurologist, to whom we had gone, diagnosed him with mild "A.D.D." and suggested putting him on drugs if the issues did not improve.
You must understand that all of these issues were subtle. He was a child that everyone liked. He was not a problem in school. He was not the kind of kid who was obviously troubled or making trouble. He was just not performing to his potential and was internalizing his stress. We took him to see you based on a recommendation from my friend whose child had similar issues and was in vision therapy.
It was a slow, gradual process, but about a month into the therapy, we began to see behavioral changes. He was more cooperative at home and at school. Over the next several months, he unilaterally decided to elevate himself into the highest spelling group in his class. He began to get perfect scores and even took on bonus words with enthusiasm. He started to read without complaining and actually started enjoying books. His teacher began telling me that he was raising his hand more and contributing. His math skills improved tremendously as did his self-esteem.
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airplane tickets are awesome, I'd love to get one in an area where I'd be able to fight it (ie, not in Illinois on a road trip from New York to Arizona)... 'Cause you have to have all three people involved show up: 1. The cop, to identify you as the "driver" of the "vehicle". 2. The observer, to testify as to the speed he calculated your vehicle going. 3. The pilot, to testify where he was flying on the given day. make 'em fight for their extortion money, that's my philosophy. :)
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So the word "money" descends from latin words for 'mint' or coin, which implies metal. The word "money" has evolved in recent years to mean anything which says "this note is legal tender for all debts, public and private". Sorta like how the meaning of "driver" evolved - a "driver" used to be someone who operated a stage coach, limosine, taxicab, etc, for hire, now it [commonly] refers to anyone who's behind the wheel of a "motor vehicle".
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Same thing's happening in the Cayman banks, I believe (privacy being chipped away, that is). If you're looking for privacy, I hear Panama is a good place to go, it's on all three (or four?) "blacklists" for money laundering..
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just 'cause it's always been true in the past doesn't mean that it will always be true for the future... The proverbial "they" say the only two certain things in life are death and taxes, well, I know plenty of people that don't deal with taxes much (or at all, even).. and with technology & human understanding progressing at the rate it does, a "cure" for death may not be too far off. (not to imply that that'd be a good thing, that's another issue entirely).
The thing is that game developers are never going to be able to stop people from creating cheats.
I think it best to never say never. What's true today may not be true tomorrow.
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<sigh>... which also means that I may not need that force-field to protect me from you.
(yeah, the mr2 really is my car, the blazer ran a red light)
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As the saying goes - if you're gonna commit the crime, you better be willing to do the time.
There's a difference between breaking the law in a "let's go rob a bank" sense ("knowingly breaking the law and williningly accepting the risk that entailed") and breaking the law in a "I have every right to do [whatever]" sense. If I believe I have every right to do something, why should I be willing to "do the time" because someone else has decided that I shouldn't?
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