Under Pennsylvania's child pornography law, it's a felony to possess or disseminate photos of a minor engaged in sexual activity, "lewd exhibition of the genitals," or nudity that is meant to titillate.
(emphasis mine).
Seems like that last point leaves the judge plenty of leeway to me.
Look it up yourself. It is still debated - one taxonomy has them as a subspecies of H. Sapiens, like us - H. Sapiens Neanderthalensis, while we are H. Sapiens Sapiens.
Taxonomy is a guessing game, particularly with primates. We can get pretty close, but there are still some uncertainties.
OSX's folder actions will let you automagically import all files placed in a folder into iTunes. And have since... oh... 10.0?
If you used iTunes and really wanted this "feature", you could have done it yourself.
Plus, given the AppleTV iTunes integration, I think it would take a hell of a lot more than skinning to lure away ATV users.
No one in Anthropology has seriously considered Neanderthals stupid for the last 30-40 years. The first Neanderthal skeleton was of an old, very arthritic male, hence the bowed posture and unlockable knees.
Don't be obtuse. Your standard blockbuster movie still costs an order of magnitude (or two) more to produce than your standard pop hit record does - and the parents comment about mastering and pressing a gold master still stand. Sure the end product is stamped out for roughly the same price, but the original artistic work was far cheaper to produce.
Creativity is worth something, and individual examples may differ, but movies tend to have a lot more creative effort and hours of labor poured into them than music albums.
The point the original poster was making was that DVDs are profitable, cost roughly the same (~$20) and yet are made from a generally much more expensive (in terms of labor, capital, and creative labor) source object.
but hardly in the realm of some evil raping of personal space
According to YOU . I don't give my passwords out to anyone. I catch anyone using one of my accounts I will prosecute to the fullest extent of the law.
You may not value your privacy, but it is a little bit arrogant and presumptive to assign the same value to everyone else's privacy.
I don't know your dating status and don't care, but those sound like the words of someone who has been and will remain alone.
Loss of privacy is at the very core of becoming unsingle. Read his/her emails too. big deal.
Good luck with that. Apple sells a closed system, and people buy it anyway, buy it -because- it is closed. I'll take "evil" stuff that works rather than "evil-free" stuff that wastes my time.
Divert your ideological passion towards making more open options available. Trying to stuff DRM back in pandora's box is a little like a teetotaler trying to push prohibition legislation rather than opening up a beerless coffeeshop.
Unfortunately, for most major metropolitan areas, there just isn't enough land to grow enough "local fruit" to feed everyone, even assuming the ridiculously low amounts of fresh fruit many people eat - unless the next state over counts as local.
Local fruit (and other foods) is a good thing, but the population density problem would need to be solved before a good 1/2 of the US population could take part.
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Technically, most macs sold in 2001 can't run higher than 10.3, so they wouldn't be upgrading anyway.
Then again, I'm pretty sure most PCs sold in 2001 won't run Vista or Windows 7, either.
A more realistic comparison might be a 1 or 2 year old machine or set of machines to be upgraded.
I really, really wish I had mod points right now.
They're companies that exist to extract money from your pockets, people - not athletic teams or some other totem.
If you'd RTFA you'd see the study author is an "education researcher".
Quite a few rungs down the social science status ladder from sociology.
Quebec only has 7,750,504 people.
Who cares? Globalization means not everyone gets their way.
Under Pennsylvania's child pornography law, it's a felony to possess or disseminate photos of a minor engaged in sexual activity, "lewd exhibition of the genitals," or nudity that is meant to titillate.
(emphasis mine).
Seems like that last point leaves the judge plenty of leeway to me.
I can mean it when I say:
I got me a hundred gigabytes of RAM
I never feed trolls and I don't read spam
...they just don't want to dive in to quite the same depth. Or they may not be interested in the way most men approach it.
So... they aren't geeks. What's the problem again?
Perusing it for Chapel Hill and a few other choice NC cities, it is no more abusive than a visit to Fark.
Not that Fark is sunshine and roses...
For the return of Oink.
I plug a keyboard into my laptop every day at work, and a monitor and keyboard every day when I get home. The ports work fine after two years.
Suck it up, seriously.
Sexually active women using the pill get fertilized eggs from time to time, they just don't implant in the uterus.
So, maybe use the google before getting on your soapbox.
Look it up yourself. It is still debated - one taxonomy has them as a subspecies of H. Sapiens, like us - H. Sapiens Neanderthalensis, while we are H. Sapiens Sapiens.
Taxonomy is a guessing game, particularly with primates. We can get pretty close, but there are still some uncertainties.
OSX's folder actions will let you automagically import all files placed in a folder into iTunes. And have since... oh... 10.0? If you used iTunes and really wanted this "feature", you could have done it yourself. Plus, given the AppleTV iTunes integration, I think it would take a hell of a lot more than skinning to lure away ATV users.
Also, quoth wikipedia: CJRT drew the original LOTR maps, so he possessed at least a passing familiarity with the work in the eyes of his father.
Bull, you have to wear it.
You can get a 5mm domed 318 stainless steel band for about $8. It is very hard to tell it apart from some other shiny masculine metal.
The wife got palladium, and it takes a few seconds and some very bright light to tell there is a difference.
No one in Anthropology has seriously considered Neanderthals stupid for the last 30-40 years. The first Neanderthal skeleton was of an old, very arthritic male, hence the bowed posture and unlockable knees.
Don't be obtuse. Your standard blockbuster movie still costs an order of magnitude (or two) more to produce than your standard pop hit record does - and the parents comment about mastering and pressing a gold master still stand. Sure the end product is stamped out for roughly the same price, but the original artistic work was far cheaper to produce.
Creativity is worth something, and individual examples may differ, but movies tend to have a lot more creative effort and hours of labor poured into them than music albums.
The point the original poster was making was that DVDs are profitable, cost roughly the same (~$20) and yet are made from a generally much more expensive (in terms of labor, capital, and creative labor) source object.
According to YOU . I don't give my passwords out to anyone. I catch anyone using one of my accounts I will prosecute to the fullest extent of the law.
You may not value your privacy, but it is a little bit arrogant and presumptive to assign the same value to everyone else's privacy.
I don't know your dating status and don't care, but those sound like the words of someone who has been and will remain alone. Loss of privacy is at the very core of becoming unsingle. Read his/her emails too. big deal.
Good luck with that. Apple sells a closed system, and people buy it anyway, buy it -because- it is closed. I'll take "evil" stuff that works rather than "evil-free" stuff that wastes my time.
Divert your ideological passion towards making more open options available. Trying to stuff DRM back in pandora's box is a little like a teetotaler trying to push prohibition legislation rather than opening up a beerless coffeeshop.
I am perfectly capable of deciding for myself what I want on my iPhone, or any other computing device I own.
I'm sure you are, but it is an iPhone, for crissakes. If you want complete control over devices, why are you even looking at apple's products?
>> just google for those viacom satellite customers by the thousands that are forced to keep flawed subscriptions even though they don't use it
A cursory search doesn't turn this up. I'm not saying it isn't true, but you should probably provide your own evidence for a claim like this.
No, but Other World Computing does.
Anyone upgrading mac innards themselves knows about them, or should.
I guess I should take my "Dare to keep cops off donuts", "PIG", and "In Goddess We Trust" bumper stickers off my car, then.
Unfortunately, for most major metropolitan areas, there just isn't enough land to grow enough "local fruit" to feed everyone, even assuming the ridiculously low amounts of fresh fruit many people eat - unless the next state over counts as local.
Local fruit (and other foods) is a good thing, but the population density problem would need to be solved before a good 1/2 of the US population could take part.
looking at green on black of whatever-on-whatever won't hurt your eyes - assuming it isn't so bright as to cause retina damage (most CRTs aren't).
The headaches are from the strain of focusing, but will be temporary, if they happen.
You can read in the dark, too!