Your previous comment said those who haven't earned it should not keep it. The heirs did not earn it so why should they keep it. Just pointing out a logical fallacy in your argument.
Also the taxed twice meme needs to die. Money is taxed many times on its journey through the system. I am taxed on my earnings, then I pay sales tax when I spend my money OH NO taxed twice. I am taxed on my earnings by the fed then by the state then by the city OH NO taxed three times.
Stop whining and learn this: Taxes, the price you pay for civilization.
Our parents and grandparents paid much higher marginal rates in the 50s and 60s and the economy boomed awfully well.
"So the private industry failed them, thus the government stepped in. Now onto the US.. how exactly has the private industries failed to provide fast & affordable internet? Where is only "slow, horrifically overpriced ADSL" available?"
Easy, try moving outside of a city. I live 15 miles east of Colorado Springs and my only choice is ADSL resold by the local phone company, 6up 1down for the low, low price of $59.99 per month. Yeah I know I choose to live in the country but you asked where is only slow, horrifically overpriced ADSL available and I told you.
PS: This applies to a large part of the United States where cable is not available. Move outside the city before you make such stupid statements.
PSS: I lived in outback Australia (Woomera) for 5 years and the telecommunications availability in the two countries is very similar pretty good in the city piss poor everywhere else.
No, conservatives believe if I have it I am not giving it up. How else do you explain the opposition to estate taxes? The heirs did not earn the wealth but somehow conservatives can justify the heirs keeping it all.
>Why should the manufacturer pay? Why can't the law just say "A bicycle helment must be made of X and be shaped like Y and resist impacts up to Z mph" instead of "buy the standard for $2750"?
Easy if the law was that explicit the law would have to be rewritten every time we decided the standard needs to change. By referencing a current ANSI standard the law gets updated automatically when a new standard becomes the norm.
And that is the rub, what you see as bad many see as good. Is it good or bad that the EPA forced the cleanup of lake Erie and the Monongahela river in Pittsburgh?
Actually many jurisdictions make it extremely difficult for overseas military to vote with unrealistic deadlines for applying for the absentee ballot then mailing them out 10 days before the election and expecting to get them back by election day. 25 yrs in the service and I've seen many of the hassles that different jurisdictions use.
Your idea about flying the ballot to LA is a non-starter as the ballots need to get back to my home jurisdiction to be counted. They already fly the mail. The real difficulty is complying with all the deadlines that are different for each state.
BUFFS aka B52s do a pretty good job of reaching anywhere in the world. Barksdale launched BUFFs that dropped weapons on Baghdad in the first Gulf war. Pretty much a PR exercise since we had BUFFS based much closer but they successfully pulled it off.
1) Freshman are 18 yo and the university feels to some extent that the younger students are better off in a more controlled environment. Not saying I agree but the uni feels they are and a lot of parents probably agree.
2) The university has a lot of expensive real estate in those dorm rooms and needs to make sure that they are full and paying for themselves.
You can decide for yourself which is more important to the university and the accountants.
Yes, but I bet yout kid would give anything to be 'normal'. My son is high-functioning autistic and he knows he is different and it broke my heart when he was ten and just wished to have real friends.
Yeah the later part of your post implies you know it is a state statute but you led off with saying keep the fed out of public education, implying that this was the feds idea. Why not lead off criticizing the idiots that think this is a good idea.
RTFS, it is a state bill, not federal. Trying to use the FCC standard not put the FCC into the school. Looks like the Arizona reps are ceding classroom decorum standards to the state, how's them apples.
no, get on with your life. get your revenge by enjoying your life. fighting with her just makes you miserable. again the best revenge is being happy without her
Sorry, I refuse to pirate. DRM is evil but so is pirating. YMMV
Sharing a book means only one of us has access to the book at a time, BTW photocopying an entire book is pirating in my world. Sharing a digital copy of the same book means both have access ie copying.
OK go to your local supermarket and buy a gallon of sterile or distilled water. An I agree on avoiding Walmart, just a slip of the keyboard. 18 months and counting since entering a Walmart.
Looking at your link it appears to be the Kindle version not the Adobe version. Good for me as I use a Sony e-reader. Love it DOC and PDF files natively too. Do a lot of my Technical reading from PDFs supplied with the journals.
Buy a gallon of sterile water from Wal-mart and use it. Yeah after you open it it isn't sterile any longer but not much worry about getting an infection from bugs in the water.
DRM on items I purchase ought be outlawed but for what Overdrive does with it, controlling of lending periods it does serve a purpose and makes some sense.
You are correct about the Overdrive interface, I cringe whenever looking for stuff. As to the missing books try making sure you are looking for all items in the system not just available items. Each library is limited to a certain number of copies of each title. Some other user might have book 1 or 2 checked out and you don't seem them because you are only looking at available items, Just a guess it has happened to me numerous times.
This has most likely changed in the last couple of years. The service a lot of libraries is known as OverDrive and it offers a lot of recent fiction. I usually download a couple of Dresden File books before going overseas.
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Honest yep, working for the benefit of his constituents, maybe, Bat-shit crazy absolutely.
Gotta agree with this. Used to be a firefighter now I work as a network engineer. Still fighting fires for a living.
You a funny man expecting adult conversation from an Anonymous Coward. Funny funny man.
Your previous comment said those who haven't earned it should not keep it. The heirs did not earn it so why should they keep it. Just pointing out a logical fallacy in your argument.
Also the taxed twice meme needs to die. Money is taxed many times on its journey through the system. I am taxed on my earnings, then I pay sales tax when I spend my money OH NO taxed twice. I am taxed on my earnings by the fed then by the state then by the city OH NO taxed three times.
Stop whining and learn this: Taxes, the price you pay for civilization.
Our parents and grandparents paid much higher marginal rates in the 50s and 60s and the economy boomed awfully well.
"So the private industry failed them, thus the government stepped in. Now onto the US.. how exactly has the private industries failed to provide fast & affordable internet? Where is only "slow, horrifically overpriced ADSL" available?"
Easy, try moving outside of a city. I live 15 miles east of Colorado Springs and my only choice is ADSL resold by the local phone company, 6up 1down for the low, low price of $59.99 per month. Yeah I know I choose to live in the country but you asked where is only slow, horrifically overpriced ADSL available and I told you.
PS: This applies to a large part of the United States where cable is not available. Move outside the city before you make such stupid statements.
PSS: I lived in outback Australia (Woomera) for 5 years and the telecommunications availability in the two countries is very similar pretty good in the city piss poor everywhere else.
No, conservatives believe if I have it I am not giving it up. How else do you explain the opposition to estate taxes? The heirs did not earn the wealth but somehow conservatives can justify the heirs keeping it all.
>Why should the manufacturer pay? Why can't the law just say "A bicycle helment must be made of X and be shaped like Y and resist impacts up to Z mph" instead of "buy the standard for $2750"?
Easy if the law was that explicit the law would have to be rewritten every time we decided the standard needs to change. By referencing a current ANSI standard the law gets updated automatically when a new standard becomes the norm.
And that is the rub, what you see as bad many see as good. Is it good or bad that the EPA forced the cleanup of lake Erie and the Monongahela river in Pittsburgh?
Actually many jurisdictions make it extremely difficult for overseas military to vote with unrealistic deadlines for applying for the absentee ballot then mailing them out 10 days before the election and expecting to get them back by election day. 25 yrs in the service and I've seen many of the hassles that different jurisdictions use.
Your idea about flying the ballot to LA is a non-starter as the ballots need to get back to my home jurisdiction to be counted. They already fly the mail. The real difficulty is complying with all the deadlines that are different for each state.
BUFFS aka B52s do a pretty good job of reaching anywhere in the world. Barksdale launched BUFFs that dropped weapons on Baghdad in the first Gulf war. Pretty much a PR exercise since we had BUFFS based much closer but they successfully pulled it off.
Two reasons actually,
1) Freshman are 18 yo and the university feels to some extent that the younger students are better off in a more controlled environment. Not saying I agree but the uni feels they are and a lot of parents probably agree.
2) The university has a lot of expensive real estate in those dorm rooms and needs to make sure that they are full and paying for themselves.
You can decide for yourself which is more important to the university and the accountants.
Yes, but I bet yout kid would give anything to be 'normal'. My son is high-functioning autistic and he knows he is different and it broke my heart when he was ten and just wished to have real friends.
Well my religion states that killing is wrong but I still have to contribute to the enforcement of the death penalty, how does that work.
Yeah the later part of your post implies you know it is a state statute but you led off with saying keep the fed out of public education, implying that this was the feds idea. Why not lead off criticizing the idiots that think this is a good idea.
Sorry to the feds
RTFS, it is a state bill, not federal. Trying to use the FCC standard not put the FCC into the school. Looks like the Arizona reps are ceding classroom decorum standards to the state, how's them apples.
no, get on with your life. get your revenge by enjoying your life. fighting with her just makes you miserable. again the best revenge is being happy without her
Sorry, I refuse to pirate. DRM is evil but so is pirating. YMMV
Sharing a book means only one of us has access to the book at a time, BTW photocopying an entire book is pirating in my world. Sharing a digital copy of the same book means both have access ie copying.
Give it all the shared stuff to her and get on with your life, trust me you will all be happier.
OK go to your local supermarket and buy a gallon of sterile or distilled water. An I agree on avoiding Walmart, just a slip of the keyboard. 18 months and counting since entering a Walmart.
Looking at your link it appears to be the Kindle version not the Adobe version. Good for me as I use a Sony e-reader. Love it DOC and PDF files natively too. Do a lot of my Technical reading from PDFs supplied with the journals.
Nooooo, don't tell me that. Ghost Story was good but I have a few others I haven't read.
Buy a gallon of sterile water from Wal-mart and use it. Yeah after you open it it isn't sterile any longer but not much worry about getting an infection from bugs in the water.
DRM on items I purchase ought be outlawed but for what Overdrive does with it, controlling of lending periods it does serve a purpose and makes some sense.
You are correct about the Overdrive interface, I cringe whenever looking for stuff. As to the missing books try making sure you are looking for all items in the system not just available items. Each library is limited to a certain number of copies of each title. Some other user might have book 1 or 2 checked out and you don't seem them because you are only looking at available items, Just a guess it has happened to me numerous times.
This has most likely changed in the last couple of years. The service a lot of libraries is known as OverDrive and it offers a lot of recent fiction. I usually download a couple of Dresden File books before going overseas.
Check that library again.