Increased penalty for putting your victims at much greater risk? Even if you have no intention of actually hurting someone while robbing them, the chance that something could go horribly awry increases dramatically when guns are involved.
In your example, the punishment is worse because using a weapon makes the crime worse. Which would you rather be assaulted by, a guy with a knife or a guy with no weapon?
Now ask yourself, which would you rather be burglarized by, the guy with a paper map, or the one who used Google maps? Can you honestly say it would make any difference to you? If not, why should it make a difference in the sentencing?
It does, however, apply to the GP's suggestion that this sort of thing should not be patentable by anyone, even the creator, because it could still be abused to prevent medical innovations.
In the case of the salt shaker, the rice isn't absorbing moisture (the salt is WAY better at it than the rice is), it's being used for the same function as the bearing in a spray paint can, to break up the clumps mechanically. You could actually use some metal ball bearings for the same purpose (make sure they're bigger than the holes in the shaker, obviously).
Where do people get the impression that rice soaks up moisture from the environment? If it did you could cook rice by leaving it on the counter in humid weather. Open air would probably absorb more moisture than uncooked dry rice.
On the other hand, some sort of desiccant (like the stuff they sell at floral and craft stores for drying flowers) would give you the effect you're looking for.
The only reasonable, and in fact the most plausible, explanation for the "no under 25" rules is that people under the age of 25 tend to be far more destructive in almost every way than people over 25. It's arbitrary, sure, but there are a lot of statistics to back it up.
And if that same statistic was true of some racial group, it would still be racist to deny them. Using statistics to dictate how an individual is going to act is one of the basic parts of racism.
iBurst Corp. should settle the case by offering to pay for a Colonic treatment for each defendant... sounds like symptoms that "procedure" could "cure".
Unless they're using your account, I'd say that's a commissioned good. If they're using your account to do the farming, that sounds more like a service, but also breaks the ToS of just about every game out there at the moment.
A subscription to a game is a service, not an intangible item. The ban is on virtual items that only exist in the game, not on selling anything without substance (which would make charging for services illegal).
I had the same problem. When they became Cingular I was told that I would have to buy a new phone and be considered a new customer (I don't have the best credit in the world at the moment). I reminded them that I'd been a customer for 5 years. They reminded me that they didn't care. I use T-Mobile prepaid now, and it's about half as expensive as my plan was, and it's my only phone. I guess they felt they had enough customers that they could afford to treat half of them like crap.
Anyone else amused by the fact that Jack Thompson apparently spends more time playing video games and reading gaming mags than some gamers? Of course, it's all for research. Just like my collection of porn.
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Increased penalty for putting your victims at much greater risk? Even if you have no intention of actually hurting someone while robbing them, the chance that something could go horribly awry increases dramatically when guns are involved.
In your example, the punishment is worse because using a weapon makes the crime worse. Which would you rather be assaulted by, a guy with a knife or a guy with no weapon? Now ask yourself, which would you rather be burglarized by, the guy with a paper map, or the one who used Google maps? Can you honestly say it would make any difference to you? If not, why should it make a difference in the sentencing?
Since when did using Google maps qualify someone as "high-tech"?
I assume you're "researching" female anatomy?
It does, however, apply to the GP's suggestion that this sort of thing should not be patentable by anyone, even the creator, because it could still be abused to prevent medical innovations.
He wasn't saying that was the case, he was saying it easily could have been.
I for one, already make it a point to marry only unrelated persons.
I try to just marry one person. Are you from Utah?
You try? Is that something you can really fail at?
Writing your name in the snow?
In the case of the salt shaker, the rice isn't absorbing moisture (the salt is WAY better at it than the rice is), it's being used for the same function as the bearing in a spray paint can, to break up the clumps mechanically. You could actually use some metal ball bearings for the same purpose (make sure they're bigger than the holes in the shaker, obviously).
Where do people get the impression that rice soaks up moisture from the environment? If it did you could cook rice by leaving it on the counter in humid weather. Open air would probably absorb more moisture than uncooked dry rice. On the other hand, some sort of desiccant (like the stuff they sell at floral and craft stores for drying flowers) would give you the effect you're looking for.
The only reasonable, and in fact the most plausible, explanation for the "no under 25" rules is that people under the age of 25 tend to be far more destructive in almost every way than people over 25. It's arbitrary, sure, but there are a lot of statistics to back it up.
And if that same statistic was true of some racial group, it would still be racist to deny them. Using statistics to dictate how an individual is going to act is one of the basic parts of racism.
iBurst Corp. should settle the case by offering to pay for a Colonic treatment for each defendant ... sounds like symptoms that "procedure" could "cure".
I didn't know a colonic could cure stupid.
I think that many religions would site religious texts as evidence of prior art on that one.
Since when has that stopped anyone from applying for (and in many cases being granted) a patent?
Let's see, we can either sue somebody, or use the helpful selection screen to change our privacy settings back to the way they were.
Lawsuit it is!
Because there's no "scary because it's true" mod.
The three major players of an industry getting together in an attempt to shut out a perceived competitor? I don't see anything shady there...
I can only assume he was stopping to set his status to "is about to get arrested for burglary".
You think the stuff we get from China's overpriced? You should see the cost of stuff made by people paid reasonable wages.
Fixed that for you.
I'm confused. How did your pants get on Twitter?
Unless they're using your account, I'd say that's a commissioned good. If they're using your account to do the farming, that sounds more like a service, but also breaks the ToS of just about every game out there at the moment.
A subscription to a game is a service, not an intangible item. The ban is on virtual items that only exist in the game, not on selling anything without substance (which would make charging for services illegal).
So how much longer until the terms "robosexual" and "electro-gonorrhea" become commonplace?
I had the same problem. When they became Cingular I was told that I would have to buy a new phone and be considered a new customer (I don't have the best credit in the world at the moment). I reminded them that I'd been a customer for 5 years. They reminded me that they didn't care. I use T-Mobile prepaid now, and it's about half as expensive as my plan was, and it's my only phone. I guess they felt they had enough customers that they could afford to treat half of them like crap.
Anyone else amused by the fact that Jack Thompson apparently spends more time playing video games and reading gaming mags than some gamers? Of course, it's all for research. Just like my collection of porn.
I wonder how many people are going to see this and immediately think about that hot girl that lives upstairs?