In any controversial subject touching finances, there is a huge difference between the "real" cost and the actual cost. The real cost is that of construction/maint/operation/etc. The actual cost is the real cost + litigation trying to stop it.
I'm don't want to suggest that gates should be punished for his reprehensible behavior, but I'm sitting here wondering why Harvard is allowing their good name to continue to be tarnished by his ongoing employment as a professor
Because if they fired him they would be accused of being racist?
It is just as illegal to rob a bank,gas station, home with a shotgun, pistol, bb gun, or banana under your coat. Implying that you have gun means that for all legal intents you DO have a gun. The only difference is that with a banana you aren't going to "accidentally" fire it and add a murder charge to the rap sheet, although you do need to look out for monkeys.
Note it is also completely legal in Washington to have a unconcealed firearm without a permit. There was a court case of a felon carrying two rifles to a pawn shop that got stopped and arrested for possession. It had to be thrown out (even though he was in illegal possession) because the cops had no probable cause to arrest him even though he was walking down the street in broad daylight with two rifles. That set the precedent for OC in Washington.
and the cost of three full time actresses/actors is going to exceed the extra revenue from your add being shown? Besides, if any competetors were to be targeting the same demographic, then it would have to randomly select from a pool of possible ads. How is it to know that these three girls are to be shown your ad and your ad alone.
So what? Even I can't tell sometimes if a person is a guy or girl anymore. If your gender is really that hard to tell, then the problem is with you. Get a new hair cut, change your clothes, and choose one side or the other!
Side note about Oblivion and Fallout 3. I think it is delayed intentionally to make it feel like someone actually is moving and make it more RPG-like.They aren't supposed to be twitchfests. Many FPS have the char move so fast it isn't humanly possible, turning, running, switching weapons etc.
Well, besides the "to as" there was also the redundancy of specifying it as a post. If he really wanted to reference Wikipedia, it would have been better to just say "According to Wikipedia..."
According to as post on Wikipedia, each COIL burst produces enough energy in a five-second burst to power a typical American household for more than one hour
I didn't mean to say that there was no element of risk, but rather that it in and of itself is not enough. If you look at who actually have received the medal and not just at the description, you see most of them were some variation of last man standing, martyred rescuer, or David vs Goliath scenarios. Usually the recipient dies and his/her actions saved the unit/won the battle.
No, its about the legal industry. Doctors and hospitals are mostly fine with allowing terminally ill to die, but there are always lawyers who try to take the "patients best interests" to heart and sue to delay pulling the plug.
That is largely a hardware issue. At the time, it took a beast of a system to handle it fully and "Vista Capable" was a marketing ploy that didn't mean a thing. Nowdays its not the hardware, but more commonly the maintenance of a system that slows it down. Any cheapo computer on the market now is plenty fast enough, but most people don't do basic clean up on it and it slows down over time. I've been running it for a little over a year and it is just as snappy as the day I first installed it. Again, that isn't the OS that is at fault, its largely the user and what they install on it.
In Microsoft's defense (dangerous here I know) the vast majority of Vista problems HAVE been resolved months if not years ago. Further, most of those were hardware issues (nVidia..) and sloppy programming of other programs and thus NOT Microsofts fault. The single biggest obstacle it faces now are uninformed customers who heard "their computer guy" tell them two years ago that vista = evil and now refuse to listen to anything otherwise.
Sure there are some that still have problems, but most of them would have problems on a computer no matter the OS. Vista as it is today and during the mojave ads is actually very nice.
Microsoft acknowledged their problems (even though they weren't actually at fault), resolved them, and then tried to inform consumers that they had been fixed. Apple is rather just saying its not our fault to begin with.
Considering the cost of making a disc is virtually nil, and you could have taken your disc in to prove it was damaged while in use, I think you had a perfectly good reason to exchange it for a new one. It's not an excuse, its a valid exchange. Damaged software is cheap and easy to replace. The only squabble is potential pirating when exchanging a functional disc. Obviously not functional means no worries about that.
As usual, I see no Linux support at all. I've almost made up my mind to format and install Windows again. Damn those rat bastard virus writers! Always forgetting us losers!
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In any controversial subject touching finances, there is a huge difference between the "real" cost and the actual cost. The real cost is that of construction/maint/operation/etc. The actual cost is the real cost + litigation trying to stop it.
Your inspiration confuses me.
I picked an extreme to illustrate a point.
Statistics are like bikinis.
What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is critical.
I'm don't want to suggest that gates should be punished for his reprehensible behavior, but I'm sitting here wondering why Harvard is allowing their good name to continue to be tarnished by his ongoing employment as a professor
Because if they fired him they would be accused of being racist?
It is just as illegal to rob a bank,gas station, home with a shotgun, pistol, bb gun, or banana under your coat. Implying that you have gun means that for all legal intents you DO have a gun. The only difference is that with a banana you aren't going to "accidentally" fire it and add a murder charge to the rap sheet, although you do need to look out for monkeys.
Heh, too true. (I live in Eastern WA)
Note it is also completely legal in Washington to have a unconcealed firearm without a permit. There was a court case of a felon carrying two rifles to a pawn shop that got stopped and arrested for possession. It had to be thrown out (even though he was in illegal possession) because the cops had no probable cause to arrest him even though he was walking down the street in broad daylight with two rifles. That set the precedent for OC in Washington.
and the cost of three full time actresses/actors is going to exceed the extra revenue from your add being shown? Besides, if any competetors were to be targeting the same demographic, then it would have to randomly select from a pool of possible ads. How is it to know that these three girls are to be shown your ad and your ad alone.
So what? Even I can't tell sometimes if a person is a guy or girl anymore. If your gender is really that hard to tell, then the problem is with you. Get a new hair cut, change your clothes, and choose one side or the other!
Good intentions, but poor implementation. They slowed it down too much IMO
Side note about Oblivion and Fallout 3. I think it is delayed intentionally to make it feel like someone actually is moving and make it more RPG-like.They aren't supposed to be twitchfests. Many FPS have the char move so fast it isn't humanly possible, turning, running, switching weapons etc.
Well, besides the "to as" there was also the redundancy of specifying it as a post. If he really wanted to reference Wikipedia, it would have been better to just say "According to Wikipedia..."
According to as post on Wikipedia, each COIL burst produces enough energy in a five-second burst to power a typical American household for more than one hour
I didn't mean to say that there was no element of risk, but rather that it in and of itself is not enough. If you look at who actually have received the medal and not just at the description, you see most of them were some variation of last man standing, martyred rescuer, or David vs Goliath scenarios. Usually the recipient dies and his/her actions saved the unit/won the battle.
You can win the Medal of Honor post-humorously, and it isn't given for risking your life, but rather for saving others.
No, its about the legal industry. Doctors and hospitals are mostly fine with allowing terminally ill to die, but there are always lawyers who try to take the "patients best interests" to heart and sue to delay pulling the plug.
No, they would only detract from a good spirit if they were alkaline.
Beware black guys who use a cane and own comic book galleries.
That is largely a hardware issue. At the time, it took a beast of a system to handle it fully and "Vista Capable" was a marketing ploy that didn't mean a thing. Nowdays its not the hardware, but more commonly the maintenance of a system that slows it down. Any cheapo computer on the market now is plenty fast enough, but most people don't do basic clean up on it and it slows down over time. I've been running it for a little over a year and it is just as snappy as the day I first installed it. Again, that isn't the OS that is at fault, its largely the user and what they install on it.
In Microsoft's defense (dangerous here I know) the vast majority of Vista problems HAVE been resolved months if not years ago. Further, most of those were hardware issues (nVidia..) and sloppy programming of other programs and thus NOT Microsofts fault. The single biggest obstacle it faces now are uninformed customers who heard "their computer guy" tell them two years ago that vista = evil and now refuse to listen to anything otherwise.
Sure there are some that still have problems, but most of them would have problems on a computer no matter the OS. Vista as it is today and during the mojave ads is actually very nice.
Microsoft acknowledged their problems (even though they weren't actually at fault), resolved them, and then tried to inform consumers that they had been fixed. Apple is rather just saying its not our fault to begin with.
Considering the cost of making a disc is virtually nil, and you could have taken your disc in to prove it was damaged while in use, I think you had a perfectly good reason to exchange it for a new one. It's not an excuse, its a valid exchange. Damaged software is cheap and easy to replace. The only squabble is potential pirating when exchanging a functional disc. Obviously not functional means no worries about that.
As usual, I see no Linux support at all. I've almost made up my mind to format and install Windows again. Damn those rat bastard virus writers! Always forgetting us losers!
There. Fixed it for ya.
I stand corrected. Thank you.
McDonald's?