I patented a method for ignoring all the patent laws back in 2015. Your idea is infringing on my intellectual property and believe me there is no prior art. Want to fight about it? See you in court, sir!
I have two similar patents, except my method is for ignoring all the patent laws while on a computer and the other while on a mobile device. I'm pretty sure your patent doesn't apply in this case, but mine does.;-)
Vegetarians and vegans are mobility bigots. They believe that if a life form doesn't move, it's fair game to be killed and eaten. They hold a deep seated prejudice against plants, or, as plants prefer to be called, "We Who Stand Still." This hateful philosophy is predicated on the idea that movement equals consciousness, or, if you will, a certain level of sacredness. To put it simply, if it walks, flies, or swims, or comes from something that does, it should not be ingested. If it doesn't, yum-yum.
Of course when you ask vegetarians and vegans, they say no, they're only opposed to eating flesh. But what could be more fleshy than a mushroom? Or avocado? Or eggplant? The ugly truth is they are cowards who murder and devour anything that can't run away. These people, who act so high and mighty, so spiritually elevated, have somehow constructed a style of cuisine that would justify them eating my Uncle Murray, a man known for sitting still for hours at a time, staring at a TV that is turned off. So the next time you order a salad consider this: Prince told us that doves cry. But what if kale does too?
Anyone who would expect a self-driving car to obey a speed limit intended for humans with human reaction time (particularly on open highways) is arguably insane, or at best, a complete luddite.
I'm guessing a "complete luddite" would be more interested in finding a way to destroy a self-driving car than having expectations as to how it should obey the posted speed limit. Especially if said luddite is a cab, truck, or Uber driver. As far as insane people, they're probably more interested in talking to spiders than worrying about the speed limit of self driving cars. Though the more intelligent ones probably would prefer it stays below the speed of light.
Thank goodness someone told Nokia about this hip new iPhone device so they could take action before years went by or something.
I thought the same thing, until I read the last sentence of TFS:
"After several years of negotiations trying to reach agreement to cover Apple's use of these patents, we are now taking action to defend our rights," said Ilkka Rahnasto, head of patent business at Nokia.
It sounds like they tried to avoid going to court for several years. At least that' what I got out of TFS.
Please don't get a dog for this. We all know who owns dogs in the neighborhood and hate them for the constant barking. The most I might do if your dog is barking constantly at someone taking your package is to file a noise complaint.
I'm not sure where you live, but during delivery hours, most places don't have noise laws unless the volume level exceeds a set number of decibels. During those times you can't lodge a complaint that will be pursued.
Unless your dog can actually bite someone taking your package they aren't much of deterrent, and even then be ready to pay for the hospital bill since the bite occurred on your property (yes, you are liable).
So are you planning on a quick headshot, or are you more into a gutshot so you can watch them flop around while they bleed out?
Indoors, you go for the head shot. Otherwise they could move into other rooms spurting blood everywhere. And I don't want to have to pay the carpet cleaners for any additional rooms.
Sometime in late 2004 Martha Stewart had a great show on this. She showed all kinds of different plastic shower curtains that looked great on the floor. Which was really convenient for keeping the mess to a minimum. She also recommended using duck tape to wrap the perp in the shower curtain for easy removal and cleanup. These days you can get all kinds of patterned duck tape too, so you shouldn't have much difficulty finding one that matches the shower curtain.
But the sort of people who complain about lawwwwyers making some mooooney
I have no problem with lawyers making some money. The problem I have is with ridiculous amount of money they tend to make. In cases of class action suits like this, they will settle for pennies on the dollar and then end up with 80 to 90% of the settlement. It's a great deal of the lawyer and the company being sued, not so much for those that got screwed. I mean the plaintiff
Perhaps people would be more likely to retain their own lawyer in these cases if the way the billing is done wasn't such a scam too. When they bill out at $300/ hour and the lowest billable increment is half an hour, it's fucking insane that a 30 second phone call gets billed at $150.
The employees that had been affected by Apple's original break policy could get as much as $20 each from Friday's settlement, according to reality, "but it's likely most of the money will go toward attorney fees."
Actually it was capitalized in the title. Perhaps the Filipinos call it that location the "Fom sea". You know, like the Red sea, Black sea, etc. The title still wouldn't be grammatically correct though. Either way, it's another fine job by the editors.
He's not the president-elect unless the electoral college vote next week overrides the popular vote.
There's no such thing as "overriding" the popular vote. The electoral college is how it works in the presidential election.
anyone who thinks that he "won the election" might want to keep in mind that the majority of Americans selected Mrs. Clinton
No, they didn't. Hillary Clinton won 48.3% of the popular vote. So she didn't win the majority of the popular vote. Furthermore, according to Wikipedia, voter turnout was 58.6%. So only a little over half of those eligible to vote actually did so. Which means 28.3% of eligible voters actually voted for her. Hardly the majority of Americans.
I didn't like any of our choices this time around. But the electoral college is how the presidential election works. I don't follow any professional sports, but a friend of mine who follows baseball made an interesting comment about it. Apparently the totals runs for all of the games in the world series this year were 27 for each team. Obviously it wasn't' declared a tie, so depending on which games they scored makes a difference. Just like where the votes are counted makes a difference. Be it right or wrong, that's the system we have in place.
If you need a QR code to identify a weak, vulnerable, old person you probably don't have enough low cunning to succeed as a petty criminal.
Perhaps, but there's also a lot better chance that they won't be able to identify an assailant. Or be able to testify against them in court mentally or legally (not that I know how this would work in Japan).
The risk probably isn't entirely nonexistent; but the risks of getting confused, wandering off, and being hard to identify are likely to be rather more serious for the cognitively impaired elderly.
Make then use regular off-the-shelf heading aid batteries. User replaceable and available at any pharmacy.
Bha-ha-ha-ha...
Oh, you're serious.
How is Apple going to make money off the the batteries that way? Now they might stamp an apple logo on some off-the-shelf hearing-aid batteries, polish them to a mirror finish, and put them in some slick looking packaging and sell them for 8X the price. Excuse me while I go patent my new business model...
While the count is still going on, she's already won the popular vote by more than anyone except Obama in 2008. It's more than 2,7000,000 people voted for Hillary over Trump.
I'm going to assume you mean by actual number of votes and not the percentage. Either way that's simply not true.
By the actual margin:
1972 Nixon won the popular vote by almost 18 million votes
1984 Reagan won popular vote by almost 17 million votes
1964 Johnson popular vote by almost 16 million
GWB is in 19th place, for the most popular votes, in the 2004 election by getting just over 3 million votes more than Kerry. .
If you want to look at the percentage, she's at 1.95%. Which is way down on the list. Harding, Coolidge, FDR, Nixon and LBJ all beat their opponents by over 20% of the popular vote. Grover Cleveland won election in 1892 with a 3% margin of the popular vote.
Trump won by electoral votes but lost the popular vote by 1.95%. Rutherford Hayes (-3%) and John Quincy Adams (-10.44%) both won the electoral votes but lost the popular vote by a larger percentage than Trump did.
You misunderstood what the security guard meant. Glenn was the oldest person to ever go into space when heÂflew aboard Discovery on STS-95Âin 1998. He was 77.
I understood him perfectly well, and knew exactly what he meant. It's just a difference in the way different generations think of someone. It's similar to how people remember Ron Glass. Even though I watched Firefly, I remember him more from watching him play Detective Ron Harris on Barney Miller. My younger friends have no idea what Barney Miller was.
I took my daughter to the Smithsonian Air and Space museum when she was 7. John Glenn was there on his birthday showing some people around. I think he had turned 89 or 90 and he really could move around quickly. He was very friendly and I was able to get a picture of him with my daughter. She was so excited to have been able to meet an actual astronaut. My wife and I got a chuckle out of the young security guard that was with him. When people asked who he was, he said that he was the worlds oldest astronaut.
The same link shows it to be number 7 among home consoles. It's slightly less then 12 million units behind number six and Sony holds the number 1 and 2 spot with the PS1 and 2 and the PS3 is at number 5.
1st. You can buy a single digital song, but are forced to buy an entire LP.
I guess you're too young to remember 45's. They usually came with a different song on the flip side. It was usually crap, but there were a lot of really good b-side songs too.
God, you may as well give someone a cellphone from the 1980s too. Vinyl is crap, those that believe it is better are right up there with those that think not giving your kids autism with a vaccine is better.
From a technical perspective, you will be able to get better sound out of digital. Unfortunately, there are some trade offs with older recordings in particular. Remastered recordings of older music can, and have been done poorly in some cases. When the remasters crank the bass to the point of causing digital clipping, vinyl can sound better.
I don't recall which recording studio it was any longer, but back in the late 1960's they didn't have their open reel recorder calibrated to the standard speed. It was noticeably slower than the standard for a couple of years. Several remasters from this studio were released on CD without taking this into account. In those cases the songs were shorter and the pitch was noticeably higher on the digital remasters. The first time I noticed this was with a Procol Harum album that I had on vinyl and purchased on CD. I ended up finding an older CD remaster that took this into account, but was out of print. So I ended up paying a lot more for it. Given the choice between the bad digital remaster and vinyl, I'd choose the vinyl.
I have a fairly decent turntable that I bought 20+ years ago. It's not one of the $30K VPI turntables, but it's not a cheap one either. Which does make a difference. But I'd still prefer the convenience of a CD. I'll listen to MP3's when I'm traveling for the convenience and storage size. But prefer CD's or FLAC when I'm at home. Most of my vinyl has been ripped to digital now though. But only in cases where a decent remaster wasn't available.
In short, there are some cases where vinyl will be a better option. But not because of some kind of voodoo magic. Just poor decisions, or ignorance, during the remastering process.
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I patented a method for ignoring all the patent laws back in 2015. Your idea is infringing on my intellectual property and believe me there is no prior art. Want to fight about it? See you in court, sir!
I have two similar patents, except my method is for ignoring all the patent laws while on a computer and the other while on a mobile device. I'm pretty sure your patent doesn't apply in this case, but mine does. ;-)
Vegetarians and vegans are mobility bigots. They believe that if a life form doesn't move, it's fair game to be killed and eaten. They hold a deep seated prejudice against plants, or, as plants prefer to be called, "We Who Stand Still." This hateful philosophy is predicated on the idea that movement equals consciousness, or, if you will, a certain level of sacredness. To put it simply, if it walks, flies, or swims, or comes from something that does, it should not be ingested. If it doesn't, yum-yum.
Of course when you ask vegetarians and vegans, they say no, they're only opposed to eating flesh. But what could be more fleshy than a mushroom? Or avocado? Or eggplant? The ugly truth is they are cowards who murder and devour anything that can't run away. These people, who act so high and mighty, so spiritually elevated, have somehow constructed a style of cuisine that would justify them eating my Uncle Murray, a man known for sitting still for hours at a time, staring at a TV that is turned off. So the next time you order a salad consider this: Prince told us that doves cry. But what if kale does too?
Please meditate on this question.
I'm sure anyone looking to by a MacBook Pro isn't looking at Consumer Reports for advise...
Well, not anymore.
Anyone who would expect a self-driving car to obey a speed limit intended for humans with human reaction time (particularly on open highways) is arguably insane, or at best, a complete luddite.
I'm guessing a "complete luddite" would be more interested in finding a way to destroy a self-driving car than having expectations as to how it should obey the posted speed limit. Especially if said luddite is a cab, truck, or Uber driver. As far as insane people, they're probably more interested in talking to spiders than worrying about the speed limit of self driving cars. Though the more intelligent ones probably would prefer it stays below the speed of light.
I am in contact with Martians.
Ask them to say hi to Michael Valentine Smith for me, would you?
Thank goodness someone told Nokia about this hip new iPhone device so they could take action before years went by or something.
I thought the same thing, until I read the last sentence of TFS:
"After several years of negotiations trying to reach agreement to cover Apple's use of these patents, we are now taking action to defend our rights," said Ilkka Rahnasto, head of patent business at Nokia.
It sounds like they tried to avoid going to court for several years. At least that' what I got out of TFS.
Please don't get a dog for this. We all know who owns dogs in the neighborhood and hate them for the constant barking. The most I might do if your dog is barking constantly at someone taking your package is to file a noise complaint.
I'm not sure where you live, but during delivery hours, most places don't have noise laws unless the volume level exceeds a set number of decibels. During those times you can't lodge a complaint that will be pursued.
Unless your dog can actually bite someone taking your package they aren't much of deterrent, and even then be ready to pay for the hospital bill since the bite occurred on your property (yes, you are liable).
This is very location dependent.
So are you planning on a quick headshot, or are you more into a gutshot so you can watch them flop around while they bleed out?
Indoors, you go for the head shot. Otherwise they could move into other rooms spurting blood everywhere. And I don't want to have to pay the carpet cleaners for any additional rooms.
Sometime in late 2004 Martha Stewart had a great show on this. She showed all kinds of different plastic shower curtains that looked great on the floor. Which was really convenient for keeping the mess to a minimum. She also recommended using duck tape to wrap the perp in the shower curtain for easy removal and cleanup. These days you can get all kinds of patterned duck tape too, so you shouldn't have much difficulty finding one that matches the shower curtain.
But the sort of people who complain about lawwwwyers making some mooooney
I have no problem with lawyers making some money. The problem I have is with ridiculous amount of money they tend to make. In cases of class action suits like this, they will settle for pennies on the dollar and then end up with 80 to 90% of the settlement. It's a great deal of the lawyer and the company being sued, not so much for those that got screwed. I mean the plaintiff
Perhaps people would be more likely to retain their own lawyer in these cases if the way the billing is done wasn't such a scam too. When they bill out at $300/ hour and the lowest billable increment is half an hour, it's fucking insane that a 30 second phone call gets billed at $150.
The employees that had been affected by Apple's original break policy could get as much as $20 each from Friday's settlement, according to reality, "but it's likely most of the money will go toward attorney fees."
FTFY
...ships are a few examples of killing machines which you don't see the eyes of whom you kill. Again, all of which the American military pioneered.
Ships? You think the American military pioneered ships? I suggest you put down the crayons, leave your "safe space" and read a little history.
As in: fom where do you get such bad editors?
Actually it was capitalized in the title. Perhaps the Filipinos call it that location the "Fom sea". You know, like the Red sea, Black sea, etc. The title still wouldn't be grammatically correct though. Either way, it's another fine job by the editors.
He's not the president-elect unless the electoral college vote next week overrides the popular vote.
There's no such thing as "overriding" the popular vote. The electoral college is how it works in the presidential election.
anyone who thinks that he "won the election" might want to keep in mind that the majority of Americans selected Mrs. Clinton
No, they didn't. Hillary Clinton won 48.3% of the popular vote. So she didn't win the majority of the popular vote. Furthermore, according to Wikipedia, voter turnout was 58.6%. So only a little over half of those eligible to vote actually did so. Which means 28.3% of eligible voters actually voted for her. Hardly the majority of Americans.
I didn't like any of our choices this time around. But the electoral college is how the presidential election works. I don't follow any professional sports, but a friend of mine who follows baseball made an interesting comment about it. Apparently the totals runs for all of the games in the world series this year were 27 for each team. Obviously it wasn't' declared a tie, so depending on which games they scored makes a difference. Just like where the votes are counted makes a difference. Be it right or wrong, that's the system we have in place.
If you need a QR code to identify a weak, vulnerable, old person you probably don't have enough low cunning to succeed as a petty criminal.
Perhaps, but there's also a lot better chance that they won't be able to identify an assailant. Or be able to testify against them in court mentally or legally (not that I know how this would work in Japan).
The risk probably isn't entirely nonexistent; but the risks of getting confused, wandering off, and being hard to identify are likely to be rather more serious for the cognitively impaired elderly.
Agreed.
Make then use regular off-the-shelf heading aid batteries. User replaceable and available at any pharmacy.
Bha-ha-ha-ha...
Oh, you're serious.
How is Apple going to make money off the the batteries that way? Now they might stamp an apple logo on some off-the-shelf hearing-aid batteries, polish them to a mirror finish, and put them in some slick looking packaging and sell them for 8X the price. Excuse me while I go patent my new business model...
While the count is still going on, she's already won the popular vote by more than anyone except Obama in 2008. It's more than 2,7000,000 people voted for Hillary over Trump.
I'm going to assume you mean by actual number of votes and not the percentage. Either way that's simply not true.
By the actual margin:
1972 Nixon won the popular vote by almost 18 million votes
1984 Reagan won popular vote by almost 17 million votes
1964 Johnson popular vote by almost 16 million
GWB is in 19th place, for the most popular votes, in the 2004 election by getting just over 3 million votes more than Kerry. .
If you want to look at the percentage, she's at 1.95%. Which is way down on the list. Harding, Coolidge, FDR, Nixon and LBJ all beat their opponents by over 20% of the popular vote. Grover Cleveland won election in 1892 with a 3% margin of the popular vote.
Trump won by electoral votes but lost the popular vote by 1.95%. Rutherford Hayes (-3%) and John Quincy Adams (-10.44%) both won the electoral votes but lost the popular vote by a larger percentage than Trump did.
...and so did you. Nobody said there was *only* two evils.
I voted Cthulhu. Because this time around, it was the lesser evil.
You misunderstood what the security guard meant. Glenn was the oldest person to ever go into space when heÂflew aboard Discovery on STS-95Âin 1998. He was 77.
I understood him perfectly well, and knew exactly what he meant. It's just a difference in the way different generations think of someone. It's similar to how people remember Ron Glass. Even though I watched Firefly, I remember him more from watching him play Detective Ron Harris on Barney Miller. My younger friends have no idea what Barney Miller was.
I took my daughter to the Smithsonian Air and Space museum when she was 7. John Glenn was there on his birthday showing some people around. I think he had turned 89 or 90 and he really could move around quickly. He was very friendly and I was able to get a picture of him with my daughter. She was so excited to have been able to meet an actual astronaut. My wife and I got a chuckle out of the young security guard that was with him. When people asked who he was, he said that he was the worlds oldest astronaut.
The market is not held captive *yet*, but they're slowly working out to corner us.
As long as they're rounded corners, most consumers will be alright with it.
You've managed to reach 12th place!
The same link shows it to be number 7 among home consoles. It's slightly less then 12 million units behind number six and Sony holds the number 1 and 2 spot with the PS1 and 2 and the PS3 is at number 5.
I believe you can find a video of the prototype at 35 seconds here.
1st. You can buy a single digital song, but are forced to buy an entire LP.
I guess you're too young to remember 45's. They usually came with a different song on the flip side. It was usually crap, but there were a lot of really good b-side songs too.
God, you may as well give someone a cellphone from the 1980s too. Vinyl is crap, those that believe it is better are right up there with those that think not giving your kids autism with a vaccine is better.
From a technical perspective, you will be able to get better sound out of digital. Unfortunately, there are some trade offs with older recordings in particular. Remastered recordings of older music can, and have been done poorly in some cases. When the remasters crank the bass to the point of causing digital clipping, vinyl can sound better.
I don't recall which recording studio it was any longer, but back in the late 1960's they didn't have their open reel recorder calibrated to the standard speed. It was noticeably slower than the standard for a couple of years. Several remasters from this studio were released on CD without taking this into account. In those cases the songs were shorter and the pitch was noticeably higher on the digital remasters. The first time I noticed this was with a Procol Harum album that I had on vinyl and purchased on CD. I ended up finding an older CD remaster that took this into account, but was out of print. So I ended up paying a lot more for it. Given the choice between the bad digital remaster and vinyl, I'd choose the vinyl.
I have a fairly decent turntable that I bought 20+ years ago. It's not one of the $30K VPI turntables, but it's not a cheap one either. Which does make a difference. But I'd still prefer the convenience of a CD. I'll listen to MP3's when I'm traveling for the convenience and storage size. But prefer CD's or FLAC when I'm at home. Most of my vinyl has been ripped to digital now though. But only in cases where a decent remaster wasn't available.
In short, there are some cases where vinyl will be a better option. But not because of some kind of voodoo magic. Just poor decisions, or ignorance, during the remastering process.
Your name isn't Homer Simpson by any chance, is it?