i think it is to see if you are who you say you are. they require exemptions if you have committed a felony or had a alcohol-related crime. but then again the government never needed a reason to try and build a database of fingerprints/DNA
i was fingerprinted when i got a bartenders license. they had me use hand sanitizer to moisten my fingertips when i used the optical scanner and it gave a better read.
the consumer license on your bullets specifically forbids hunting for any reason. these bullets are licensed for target practice only. your fishing gear is only licensed for catch and release. you have to throw that nice salmon back. and as far as your crops, they really aren't yours either. your agreed to a license when purchasing the seeds that stated they could only be used for hobby purposes. the terms of the license state that sustenance farming is considered commercial use and these seeds are not approved for that.
if these terms are not to your liking you are free to not purchase these products. see how that works?
okay captian flamer, look at a county by county voting trend and tell me that it is valid to blame an entire _region_ for the actions of some people you disagree with. there are a lot of people with a variety of opinions everywhere you go. don't generalize and you won't sound like an elitist coastie.
and i don't care one bit what you take seriously or not.
so tough guy, you want to write off a huge swath of real estate because of the actions of one state legislature. if you were interested in anything other than smearing anyone who doesn't live on a coast you could easily find information about the diversity of opinions throughout the country.
where do you come from, let's give someone the chance to lump you in with your neighbors.
for what it's worth, i always thought that COD was overly grenade happy. i just got done playing Brothers in Arms, the first one (road to hill 80) and was pleasantly surprised with the AI of both your teammates and enemies.
teammates will find cover, when possible. if you point at an area for them to goto they will automatically stay low and not get shot if there is any nearby cover. if you order them to suppress an area they do a good job keeping up fire so you can flank the enemy. the only time i had any die was if i stupidly ordered them to leave cover when they were under fire.
enemies see you coming, lay suppressing fire (not hitting you much) and they stay low when under fire. the enemies never suicide charge or mechanically follow the same path as their now-dead companions. in general it is pretty realistic to the actions of dug-in germans with good cover. also nice, if they see you get close to their cover they go active and chase you around the hedge.
my only gripe is that they are far more accurate than me with the same gun. i always snatch whatever SMG they were carrying (what can i say, the thompson sucks) but they are able to get headshots from very far away with the same gun that i most get close to effectively use. they added some gun barrel sway for the player, and it is a little overdone and unrealistic. i know for a fact that i wouldn't have 1" sight deviation when sighting a M1 on a target 25 yards away.
not really. if they can prove damages based on a statement made anonymously then the statement did hold weight. this case is garbage, but not all defamation cases are similarly baseless. also, this has nothing to do with the corporation, it was the franchisee that was suing.
besides, you are posting anonymous, were modded up, and i am responding to you...so anonymous comments hold some weight
he lets them off easy. someone did that to a friend of mine, when he got home from work (construction) and there was a random Caddy parked in his driveway. he dragged their car into the middle of the street, left it in a lane of traffic, parked his truck legally in his driveway, and then called the cops. cracked a beer and watched the car get towed in 10 minutes.
well aren't you quite the angry little person. i was trying to give you the benefit of the doubt since you failed at constructing a sentence. "Italy were neutral", that should be "was" you argumentative clod.
You fail at mindreading...If you'd ever left Berlin
not German, who fails at what now?
Italy launched a war of aggression against Ethiopia in 1935. In 1937 they left the League of Nations and joined in a treaty with Japan and Germany. they officially entered the war in 1940. in 1943, tired of getting their asses kicked Mussolini was arrested. the hostilities in Europe were over by 1943.
so what half of the war are you talking about? you are trying to average out their actions but for almost the entire European war they were a member of the Axis and engaged in wars of expansion and aggression. they way i read it and they way i was taught history is that after the Italian colonies were lost and Sicily was invaded the monarch switched sides and the partisans were legitimized, but the reality is that the war was almost over in Europe.
i am going to venture to correct you again, because this time it is your attitude that needs correcting. it is funny that you flame people left and right all over this site and then run around with that stupid sig. claiming that there is a campaign of harassment by one user. for how shitty you act to people it is not surprising that your posts are followed by ACs calling you names. i shouldn't waste my time with a troll like you, but i am bored right now so there it is.
exactly! maybe i play too much wolfenstein: enemy territory, but i see no reason why we can't wait until they are all respawning and then sneak into their base, errr server farm, and call an airstrike.
Journalspace.com was the site. i sent that around to my friends who like to think that cloud computing is the way to go. Ma.gnolia is going to serve as lesson #2 for them...
i am going to assume that you are trying to say that Italians were neutral on average...but unfortunately the same could be said for most countries involved in a war of aggression.
in the prelude to the war Italy invaded Ethiopia. they were allied with Germany all along the way, even before the formation of the Axis. at the outbreak of the war they invaded France and declared war on England. tried to invade Greece. occupied France. mucked around in East Africa.
these are not the actions of a "neutral" country. this is offtopic as hell, but i wanted to correct you in the off chance you are not a willful historical revisionist.
another way to look at it is that the community adds content that is of direct benefit to the community. the private entity (be it individual or corporation) that takes risks (purchasing equipment, signing contracts for hosting, etc.) has the right to make a living and profit. if you don't like it start a wiki and solicit donations for your hosting, that is a lot harder than getting business loans based on ad revenue streams.
this doesn't look like a pancake or a vinyl record or "irregular" at all. this looks like a rectangle that is located in a corner of the case. it is longer than normal for a laptop battery, but it could still be made to be removable if that is what they wanted to do...
thanks for the info. i have played around with the 1st gen. iphone on EDGE and it wasn't too slow on most sites (even watching vids on youtube), but heard horror stories about some phones having very slow performance on EDGE.
i realized today that by switching to T-mobile i could add unlimited data to what i get from Verizon and pay the same amount per month. was hoping for 3G, but maybe i will take the leap. i think that they have demo models turned on so i will be able to test drive it...
i was strongly considering this phone until 5 minutes ago when i saw that there was no 3G coverage where i live. how slow is the EDGE/GPRS on this thing? it looks like i will not ever see a 3G network with it if i buy one...damn
these judges would sentence defendants outrageously to make a buck. how can you blindly trust the verdict that they pass or the instruction that they give a jury (if applicable).
corrupt judge = new trials, or there is no justice to be found in the courts.
that's insane. renters already pay property taxes every month. do they think that because the property tax bill is addressed to the landlord that they won't pass it on the the renters?
whenever i have meta-moderated since the new version came out 9/10 comments have not had a moderation on them. so what am i meta-ing? these comments have not been modded at all, which makes me wonder if anyone is meta-moderating the actual mods.
the conviction rates (usually) include plea bargains as a conviction, because you are pleading guilty to a crime. many of the people facing criminal charges qualify for a public defender and economically can't pay for their own defense. public defenders have more cases than they know what to do with, so they push for plea bargains. also, if you want to be cynical, some public defenders' offices are basically an offshoot of the DA's office. in some cities a person facing a criminal charge gets damn near railroaded into pleading guilt to something, no matter what the facts are.
most defendants never get to defend themselves at all. the cops arrest you, seize whatever is within reach, prosecutor brings a set of charges, and you get offered a plea deal. no one ever looks at the legality of the search and seizure of evidence.
i taught for a year in a school for kids that had been expelled from the regular school system. there was a senior there, never got in trouble, really nice kid. he was standing in his front yard playing with his niece. 2 cops jumped the fence 'in the course of an investigation' on his block. if i remember correctly there was an altercation across the street. they grabbed the kid, threw him on the ground, searched him, and found 2 nickel bags of weed. he was arrested on the spot, and eventually charged with possession with intent to deliver, a felony. there goes your right to vote, etc.
he ended up getting a plea deal down to simple possession, a misdemeanor with a couple hundred dollar fine. he couldn't afford an attorney and the public defender convinced him to plead. i had a friend who got caught with about 10 times as much weed in the same city. he was issued a ticket for possession and was free to go. difference? my friend was white and out at the bars, the kid was white and lived in the ghetto.
now, i am not a lawyer (of course) but i think that he would have had a pretty good chance of getting the case dismissed. they had no reason to search someone that was across the street or down the block from a fight. unless he was reported to be involved (he wasn't) they had no reason to even be in his fenced off yard. just another successful prosecution for the DA, and no one cares how the evidence was gathered.
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i think it is to see if you are who you say you are. they require exemptions if you have committed a felony or had a alcohol-related crime. but then again the government never needed a reason to try and build a database of fingerprints/DNA
i was fingerprinted when i got a bartenders license. they had me use hand sanitizer to moisten my fingertips when i used the optical scanner and it gave a better read.
I can hunt, or fish, or raise crops.
i'm sorry, no you can't.
the consumer license on your bullets specifically forbids hunting for any reason. these bullets are licensed for target practice only. your fishing gear is only licensed for catch and release. you have to throw that nice salmon back. and as far as your crops, they really aren't yours either. your agreed to a license when purchasing the seeds that stated they could only be used for hobby purposes. the terms of the license state that sustenance farming is considered commercial use and these seeds are not approved for that.
if these terms are not to your liking you are free to not purchase these products. see how that works?
okay captian flamer, look at a county by county voting trend and tell me that it is valid to blame an entire _region_ for the actions of some people you disagree with. there are a lot of people with a variety of opinions everywhere you go. don't generalize and you won't sound like an elitist coastie.
and i don't care one bit what you take seriously or not.
so tough guy, you want to write off a huge swath of real estate because of the actions of one state legislature. if you were interested in anything other than smearing anyone who doesn't live on a coast you could easily find information about the diversity of opinions throughout the country.
where do you come from, let's give someone the chance to lump you in with your neighbors.
for what it's worth, i always thought that COD was overly grenade happy. i just got done playing Brothers in Arms, the first one (road to hill 80) and was pleasantly surprised with the AI of both your teammates and enemies.
teammates will find cover, when possible. if you point at an area for them to goto they will automatically stay low and not get shot if there is any nearby cover. if you order them to suppress an area they do a good job keeping up fire so you can flank the enemy. the only time i had any die was if i stupidly ordered them to leave cover when they were under fire.
enemies see you coming, lay suppressing fire (not hitting you much) and they stay low when under fire. the enemies never suicide charge or mechanically follow the same path as their now-dead companions. in general it is pretty realistic to the actions of dug-in germans with good cover. also nice, if they see you get close to their cover they go active and chase you around the hedge.
my only gripe is that they are far more accurate than me with the same gun. i always snatch whatever SMG they were carrying (what can i say, the thompson sucks) but they are able to get headshots from very far away with the same gun that i most get close to effectively use. they added some gun barrel sway for the player, and it is a little overdone and unrealistic. i know for a fact that i wouldn't have 1" sight deviation when sighting a M1 on a target 25 yards away.
not really. if they can prove damages based on a statement made anonymously then the statement did hold weight. this case is garbage, but not all defamation cases are similarly baseless. also, this has nothing to do with the corporation, it was the franchisee that was suing.
besides, you are posting anonymous, were modded up, and i am responding to you...so anonymous comments hold some weight
that ruling actually makes sense. there is no way that it will be allowed to stand!
he lets them off easy. someone did that to a friend of mine, when he got home from work (construction) and there was a random Caddy parked in his driveway. he dragged their car into the middle of the street, left it in a lane of traffic, parked his truck legally in his driveway, and then called the cops. cracked a beer and watched the car get towed in 10 minutes.
wow, great link. thanks a lot, that was really interesting reading.
You fail at mindreading...If you'd ever left Berlin
not German, who fails at what now?
Italy launched a war of aggression against Ethiopia in 1935. In 1937 they left the League of Nations and joined in a treaty with Japan and Germany. they officially entered the war in 1940. in 1943, tired of getting their asses kicked Mussolini was arrested. the hostilities in Europe were over by 1943.
so what half of the war are you talking about? you are trying to average out their actions but for almost the entire European war they were a member of the Axis and engaged in wars of expansion and aggression. they way i read it and they way i was taught history is that after the Italian colonies were lost and Sicily was invaded the monarch switched sides and the partisans were legitimized, but the reality is that the war was almost over in Europe.
i am going to venture to correct you again, because this time it is your attitude that needs correcting. it is funny that you flame people left and right all over this site and then run around with that stupid sig. claiming that there is a campaign of harassment by one user. for how shitty you act to people it is not surprising that your posts are followed by ACs calling you names. i shouldn't waste my time with a troll like you, but i am bored right now so there it is.
exactly! maybe i play too much wolfenstein: enemy territory, but i see no reason why we can't wait until they are all respawning and then sneak into their base, errr server farm, and call an airstrike.
Journalspace.com was the site. i sent that around to my friends who like to think that cloud computing is the way to go. Ma.gnolia is going to serve as lesson #2 for them...
i am going to assume that you are trying to say that Italians were neutral on average...but unfortunately the same could be said for most countries involved in a war of aggression.
in the prelude to the war Italy invaded Ethiopia. they were allied with Germany all along the way, even before the formation of the Axis. at the outbreak of the war they invaded France and declared war on England. tried to invade Greece. occupied France. mucked around in East Africa.
these are not the actions of a "neutral" country. this is offtopic as hell, but i wanted to correct you in the off chance you are not a willful historical revisionist.
that is one way to look at it.
another way to look at it is that the community adds content that is of direct benefit to the community. the private entity (be it individual or corporation) that takes risks (purchasing equipment, signing contracts for hosting, etc.) has the right to make a living and profit. if you don't like it start a wiki and solicit donations for your hosting, that is a lot harder than getting business loans based on ad revenue streams.
this doesn't look like a pancake or a vinyl record or "irregular" at all. this looks like a rectangle that is located in a corner of the case. it is longer than normal for a laptop battery, but it could still be made to be removable if that is what they wanted to do...
i thought that you were joking until i saw what your username was.
looking at mine, you can see that my parents had low expectations for my career path.
thanks for the info. i have played around with the 1st gen. iphone on EDGE and it wasn't too slow on most sites (even watching vids on youtube), but heard horror stories about some phones having very slow performance on EDGE.
i realized today that by switching to T-mobile i could add unlimited data to what i get from Verizon and pay the same amount per month. was hoping for 3G, but maybe i will take the leap. i think that they have demo models turned on so i will be able to test drive it...
anything else a potential buyer should consider?
quick question?
i was strongly considering this phone until 5 minutes ago when i saw that there was no 3G coverage where i live. how slow is the EDGE/GPRS on this thing? it looks like i will not ever see a 3G network with it if i buy one...damn
these judges would sentence defendants outrageously to make a buck. how can you blindly trust the verdict that they pass or the instruction that they give a jury (if applicable).
corrupt judge = new trials, or there is no justice to be found in the courts.
that's insane. renters already pay property taxes every month. do they think that because the property tax bill is addressed to the landlord that they won't pass it on the the renters?
yeah, it is going to be like watching my brother in law play a FPS. lots of shooting, and no one dies.
moderators can be...graded in M2
whenever i have meta-moderated since the new version came out 9/10 comments have not had a moderation on them. so what am i meta-ing? these comments have not been modded at all, which makes me wonder if anyone is meta-moderating the actual mods.
didn't they try to sue a printer?
the conviction rates (usually) include plea bargains as a conviction, because you are pleading guilty to a crime. many of the people facing criminal charges qualify for a public defender and economically can't pay for their own defense. public defenders have more cases than they know what to do with, so they push for plea bargains. also, if you want to be cynical, some public defenders' offices are basically an offshoot of the DA's office. in some cities a person facing a criminal charge gets damn near railroaded into pleading guilt to something, no matter what the facts are.
most defendants never get to defend themselves at all. the cops arrest you, seize whatever is within reach, prosecutor brings a set of charges, and you get offered a plea deal. no one ever looks at the legality of the search and seizure of evidence.
i taught for a year in a school for kids that had been expelled from the regular school system. there was a senior there, never got in trouble, really nice kid. he was standing in his front yard playing with his niece. 2 cops jumped the fence 'in the course of an investigation' on his block. if i remember correctly there was an altercation across the street. they grabbed the kid, threw him on the ground, searched him, and found 2 nickel bags of weed. he was arrested on the spot, and eventually charged with possession with intent to deliver, a felony. there goes your right to vote, etc.
he ended up getting a plea deal down to simple possession, a misdemeanor with a couple hundred dollar fine. he couldn't afford an attorney and the public defender convinced him to plead. i had a friend who got caught with about 10 times as much weed in the same city. he was issued a ticket for possession and was free to go. difference? my friend was white and out at the bars, the kid was white and lived in the ghetto.
now, i am not a lawyer (of course) but i think that he would have had a pretty good chance of getting the case dismissed. they had no reason to search someone that was across the street or down the block from a fight. unless he was reported to be involved (he wasn't) they had no reason to even be in his fenced off yard. just another successful prosecution for the DA, and no one cares how the evidence was gathered.