In which case, Mr. Williams should stop stealing such old jokes from the public domain and start trying to come up with a few of his own. Especially when you consider that the original joke was about a child in Africa dying every time Bono clapped his hands (based on a bit that Bono actually did in his concerts).
People in Belarus and Russia will, however, see financial improvements in their life. That's what matters to them.
Upon what do you base this prediction? I have seen no evidence that the policies of the semi-authoritarian governments of either Belarus or Russia will lead to economic improvement for the average person in either country.
The average citizen of a country will see financial improvements as their government increasingly functions according to rule of law rather than rule of edict. The government of Belarus appears from what I can see to function by rule of edict with no evident increase in rule of law. The government of Russia appears to be moving away from rule of law (which it had never actually gotten to) toward greater tendency to rule of edict (this is based on what I can see as a casual foreign observer with only a passing interest in Russia).
Sorry, I don't have a citation. However, I worked as a manager of a retail store before there were gift cards. When we sold gift certificates we had to keep careful record of when they were sold and when they were redeemed, if they were not redeemed within a certain time period (my recollection is two years, but I'm not sure) we had to report it to the home office so that they could remit the money to the state. This policy was new (not because the law was new, but because the company I worked for had just found out about it), and they introduced expiration dates for gift certificates at the same time (the expiration date coincided with the date at which they were required to turn the money over to the state). Stores that were in states that did not have such laws did not have expiration dates on their gift certificates.
Actually, the banking collapse was caused by government interference. When Clinton was President (although it was not primarily his fault--members of the House and the Senate played much larger roles), the Federal government started pressuring banks to extend more mortgages to "minorities" (in the context read that as minorities from poor neighborhoods). At first the banks were reluctant, as the people they were being pressured to lend to were historically bad credit risks (mortgages in those neighborhoods were defaulted on at much higher rates than the national average for similar demographics...this was very complicated and effected not so much, if at all, by race as by geography--those neighborhoods tended to be in areas with declining job prospects). The banks were not faultless in this, but government interference set in motion the process that led to the melt down.
Finally. I HATE the way retailers are predating on consumers. I do not give gift cards because of this. Companies are stealing by devaluing cards. They have our money, interest free. The gift cards should stay valid forever. I hope the government nails them on this hard. Retroactively too.
The problem is you have it backward. This sort of law did not come into being because of retailers devaluing gift cards, retailers started devaluing gift cards because of these laws. Back before gift cards, when there were only gift certificates, states started passing laws that if a gift certificate was not redeemed after a certain time, the retailer was required to turn that money over to the state.
That's because the UK is still pretending it is an independent country, while Belgium and Italy have both accepted that they are just subject states in the EU.
It's only a misquote if you think I'm quoting from one source but am actually quoting from another.
So because you quoted from a source which misquoted the original source the OP is wrong? The OP didn't say that you were misquoting, they only said that your sig was a misquote.
with a digital distribution system it makes "1984" a little harder because you have multiple distributors using different standards.
With digital distribution, how do you prove which is the original publication? There are ways to prove when a paper copy was created (or at least make a credible case).
The explosion in written works is more a product of changes in technology than in the advent of Copyright. As the cost of producing multiple copies of books went down, the incentive to produce only "valuable" books went down.
You have obviously never read "1984". Either that or you don't quite understand its implications.
If there are no permanent records that are immune to alteration (hint: no electronic record is immune to alteration), those who can alter the records determine what is history and what is fantasy.
"The latest iteration of NewsScope 'scans and automatically extracts critical pieces of information' from US corporate press releases"
Extracting useful info from press releases? This must be absolutely amazing software.
They didn't say "useful", they said "critical". There is a world of difference between those two types of information. Useful information would be information that would give you some idea of how the company profits will be going forward. Critical information is information that gives you an idea of what the company's management wants you to think company profits will be going forward.
(meaning it doesn't work exactly like Microsoft Office)
and doesn't use existing well established conventions
(again meaning it doesn't work exactly like MS Office)
for common things.
When Word came out lots of people said it would never get there because it wasn't intuitive (meaning it didn't work like Wordperfect) and didn't use existing well established conventions (again meaning it didn't work like Wordperfect). And for a long time, these things were a barrier to Word taking over from Wordperfect. But times change and now Word is the dominant word processor and Wordperfect is a very minor player in the word processing market (I assume someone still makes a version of Wordperfect).
2. If a piece of software is a "threat" to Microsoft Office, then it better function like people who use Microsoft Office every day expect it to function.
Why? Office 2007 doesn't function the way that people who use earlier versions of Office expect it to function. I have Office 2007 on one of my home PCs (I've had it for over a year). I use Office 2003 at work. On a regular basis I come across basic functionality that it takes me 10 or more minutes to figure out how to do in Office 2007 because it doesn't work like earlier versions of Office. I often give up and transfer the project to OO.o because it is easier to figure out how to do it.
I'd guess the REAL reason is something like this. Some higher-up complained to the IT manager - it may have been about the helpdesk, or it very well may have been about the IT manager himself. This scared Mr. Manager, who in the best "bad manager" tradition came up with a really stupid idea that he thinks will make it look like a) he's actually doing something, and b) his role as manager of the brownshirts is vital.
I would guess that some higher-up asked for help from someone in IT who wasn't help desk and they blew him off. So, the IT manager wants uniforms for the help desk so that everyone knows who the peons are and doesn't bother the "real" IT workers for stuff that is the help desks job.
Terrorists are like fools, they will always build a better one.
How about we treat the problem instead of the symptom. Give them something to loose or care about. When you have nothing you have nothing to loose.
You mean like this last guy? You know, the son of an international banker, the guy's last address was a $3 million family owned London apartment. Yeah, he had nothing to lose./s
The things that Spitzer went after were completely unrelated to the crash and they were not subject to his authority. The reason he got settlements was because the companies decided that the settlement was cheaper than the PR hit they would take during the process.
Exactly, keeping track of and collecting the sales tax in the many different governmental authorities that levy a sales tax wouldn't be that hard for Amazon. It would however place another barrier to entry for a small business that would like to get started selling over the Internet. Which is why the NYT and LAT are for it, small businesses are harder to regulate and control and reduce people's dependency on the government.
I'm sorry, but Afghanistan was broken before the U.S. military arrived...before 9/11 happened.
Who said anything about the US military? In the 1970s, Afghanistan was a great place. I talked to a guy who visited their as a tourist, and he said all the people were friendly and welcoming. In every hotel he stayed at, there were two little hash chunks on the nightstand, like mints.
Generally countries tend to do well when their territory isn't use strategically for international power games.
Right, if it wasn't for the U.S., Afghanistan would be a wonderful country. The Russian invasion has nothing to do with the change, it's all the fault of the U.S..
Up until the EU's ruling elite decide that being pro-consumer is no longer in its self-interest. The EU is set up to have little or no accountability. Right now the people who run the EU wish to increase the power of the central government, the people of the various countries that make up the EU are opposed to this. Therefore, those who actually run the EU wish to appear responsive to the needs and wants of the common man. Once they have the power they are in the process of acquiring, that will no longer be necessary.
The thing that Europeans always forget is that the U.S. is more like the E.U. than it is like Finland. Actually, many Americans make the same mistake. When Europe becomes a single cellular market the way that the U.S. is, we will be able to compare the business practices of the providers.
I never said that there was anyone who was neurotypical who was more ethical than Perelman. I merely said that without having experience with a larger group of people than anybody has, it is an inaccurate generalization to say that a particular individual has higher ethics than anyone who is neurotypical.
The OP said that Perelman had a more instinctive grasp of ethics than any neurotypical. How many people do you think the OP knows well enough to have any idea what their instinctive grasp of ethics is? Is that really enough to reach general conclusions about every individual out of somewhere around 6 billion people?
Ummm... there's only ONE neurotypical type, by definition. There can only be one mean or average.
Yet in your original post you said:"People like Perelman have a more instinctive grasp of ethics than any neurotypical types." Please explain. And if your explanation is that you were referring to the plural of people who fall into the neurotypical type, then understand I was referring to the many singular instances of people who fall into the neurotypical type, not to the idea that there might be different neurotypical types.
You certainly seems to say that no one who doesn't place somewhere on the autistic spectrum could have as good of a grasp of ethics as some of those who do.
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In which case, Mr. Williams should stop stealing such old jokes from the public domain and start trying to come up with a few of his own. Especially when you consider that the original joke was about a child in Africa dying every time Bono clapped his hands (based on a bit that Bono actually did in his concerts).
People in Belarus and Russia will, however, see financial improvements in their life. That's what matters to them.
Upon what do you base this prediction? I have seen no evidence that the policies of the semi-authoritarian governments of either Belarus or Russia will lead to economic improvement for the average person in either country.
The average citizen of a country will see financial improvements as their government increasingly functions according to rule of law rather than rule of edict. The government of Belarus appears from what I can see to function by rule of edict with no evident increase in rule of law. The government of Russia appears to be moving away from rule of law (which it had never actually gotten to) toward greater tendency to rule of edict (this is based on what I can see as a casual foreign observer with only a passing interest in Russia).
Sorry, I don't have a citation. However, I worked as a manager of a retail store before there were gift cards. When we sold gift certificates we had to keep careful record of when they were sold and when they were redeemed, if they were not redeemed within a certain time period (my recollection is two years, but I'm not sure) we had to report it to the home office so that they could remit the money to the state. This policy was new (not because the law was new, but because the company I worked for had just found out about it), and they introduced expiration dates for gift certificates at the same time (the expiration date coincided with the date at which they were required to turn the money over to the state). Stores that were in states that did not have such laws did not have expiration dates on their gift certificates.
Actually, the banking collapse was caused by government interference. When Clinton was President (although it was not primarily his fault--members of the House and the Senate played much larger roles), the Federal government started pressuring banks to extend more mortgages to "minorities" (in the context read that as minorities from poor neighborhoods). At first the banks were reluctant, as the people they were being pressured to lend to were historically bad credit risks (mortgages in those neighborhoods were defaulted on at much higher rates than the national average for similar demographics...this was very complicated and effected not so much, if at all, by race as by geography--those neighborhoods tended to be in areas with declining job prospects). The banks were not faultless in this, but government interference set in motion the process that led to the melt down.
Fuck the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
You know that is just sick. The guy is dead and you want to fuck him?
Finally. I HATE the way retailers are predating on consumers. I do not give gift cards because of this. Companies are stealing by devaluing cards. They have our money, interest free. The gift cards should stay valid forever. I hope the government nails them on this hard. Retroactively too.
The problem is you have it backward. This sort of law did not come into being because of retailers devaluing gift cards, retailers started devaluing gift cards because of these laws. Back before gift cards, when there were only gift certificates, states started passing laws that if a gift certificate was not redeemed after a certain time, the retailer was required to turn that money over to the state.
That's because the UK is still pretending it is an independent country, while Belgium and Italy have both accepted that they are just subject states in the EU.
It's only a misquote if you think I'm quoting from one source but am actually quoting from another.
So because you quoted from a source which misquoted the original source the OP is wrong? The OP didn't say that you were misquoting, they only said that your sig was a misquote.
with a digital distribution system it makes "1984" a little harder because you have multiple distributors using different standards.
With digital distribution, how do you prove which is the original publication? There are ways to prove when a paper copy was created (or at least make a credible case).
The explosion in written works is more a product of changes in technology than in the advent of Copyright. As the cost of producing multiple copies of books went down, the incentive to produce only "valuable" books went down.
You have obviously never read "1984". Either that or you don't quite understand its implications.
If there are no permanent records that are immune to alteration (hint: no electronic record is immune to alteration), those who can alter the records determine what is history and what is fantasy.
"The latest iteration of NewsScope 'scans and automatically extracts critical pieces of information' from US corporate press releases"
Extracting useful info from press releases? This must be absolutely amazing software.
They didn't say "useful", they said "critical". There is a world of difference between those two types of information. Useful information would be information that would give you some idea of how the company profits will be going forward. Critical information is information that gives you an idea of what the company's management wants you to think company profits will be going forward.
Right, its her fault that OO.org isn't intuitive
(meaning it doesn't work exactly like Microsoft Office)
and doesn't use existing well established conventions
(again meaning it doesn't work exactly like MS Office)
for common things.
When Word came out lots of people said it would never get there because it wasn't intuitive (meaning it didn't work like Wordperfect) and didn't use existing well established conventions (again meaning it didn't work like Wordperfect). And for a long time, these things were a barrier to Word taking over from Wordperfect. But times change and now Word is the dominant word processor and Wordperfect is a very minor player in the word processing market (I assume someone still makes a version of Wordperfect).
2. If a piece of software is a "threat" to Microsoft Office, then it better function like people who use Microsoft Office every day expect it to function.
Why? Office 2007 doesn't function the way that people who use earlier versions of Office expect it to function. I have Office 2007 on one of my home PCs (I've had it for over a year). I use Office 2003 at work. On a regular basis I come across basic functionality that it takes me 10 or more minutes to figure out how to do in Office 2007 because it doesn't work like earlier versions of Office. I often give up and transfer the project to OO.o because it is easier to figure out how to do it.
I'd guess the REAL reason is something like this. Some higher-up complained to the IT manager - it may have been about the helpdesk, or it very well may have been about the IT manager himself. This scared Mr. Manager, who in the best "bad manager" tradition came up with a really stupid idea that he thinks will make it look like a) he's actually doing something, and b) his role as manager of the brownshirts is vital.
I would guess that some higher-up asked for help from someone in IT who wasn't help desk and they blew him off. So, the IT manager wants uniforms for the help desk so that everyone knows who the peons are and doesn't bother the "real" IT workers for stuff that is the help desks job.
Terrorists are like fools, they will always build a better one. How about we treat the problem instead of the symptom. Give them something to loose or care about. When you have nothing you have nothing to loose.
You mean like this last guy? You know, the son of an international banker, the guy's last address was a $3 million family owned London apartment. Yeah, he had nothing to lose. /s
The things that Spitzer went after were completely unrelated to the crash and they were not subject to his authority. The reason he got settlements was because the companies decided that the settlement was cheaper than the PR hit they would take during the process.
Exactly, keeping track of and collecting the sales tax in the many different governmental authorities that levy a sales tax wouldn't be that hard for Amazon. It would however place another barrier to entry for a small business that would like to get started selling over the Internet. Which is why the NYT and LAT are for it, small businesses are harder to regulate and control and reduce people's dependency on the government.
I'm sorry, but Afghanistan was broken before the U.S. military arrived...before 9/11 happened.
Who said anything about the US military? In the 1970s, Afghanistan was a great place. I talked to a guy who visited their as a tourist, and he said all the people were friendly and welcoming. In every hotel he stayed at, there were two little hash chunks on the nightstand, like mints. Generally countries tend to do well when their territory isn't use strategically for international power games.
Right, if it wasn't for the U.S., Afghanistan would be a wonderful country. The Russian invasion has nothing to do with the change, it's all the fault of the U.S..
I'm sorry, but Afghanistan was broken before the U.S. military arrived...before 9/11 happened.
(juries abused this power in the Jim Jones south).
I am curious, what exactly is/was the "Jim Jones south"?
Perhaps you meant the Jim Crow south?
3. The EU is pro-consumer,
Up until the EU's ruling elite decide that being pro-consumer is no longer in its self-interest. The EU is set up to have little or no accountability. Right now the people who run the EU wish to increase the power of the central government, the people of the various countries that make up the EU are opposed to this. Therefore, those who actually run the EU wish to appear responsive to the needs and wants of the common man. Once they have the power they are in the process of acquiring, that will no longer be necessary.
The thing that Europeans always forget is that the U.S. is more like the E.U. than it is like Finland. Actually, many Americans make the same mistake. When Europe becomes a single cellular market the way that the U.S. is, we will be able to compare the business practices of the providers.
I never said that there was anyone who was neurotypical who was more ethical than Perelman. I merely said that without having experience with a larger group of people than anybody has, it is an inaccurate generalization to say that a particular individual has higher ethics than anyone who is neurotypical.
The OP said that Perelman had a more instinctive grasp of ethics than any neurotypical. How many people do you think the OP knows well enough to have any idea what their instinctive grasp of ethics is? Is that really enough to reach general conclusions about every individual out of somewhere around 6 billion people?
Ummm... there's only ONE neurotypical type, by definition. There can only be one mean or average.
Yet in your original post you said:"People like Perelman have a more instinctive grasp of ethics than any neurotypical types." Please explain. And if your explanation is that you were referring to the plural of people who fall into the neurotypical type, then understand I was referring to the many singular instances of people who fall into the neurotypical type, not to the idea that there might be different neurotypical types.
You certainly seems to say that no one who doesn't place somewhere on the autistic spectrum could have as good of a grasp of ethics as some of those who do.