If you have a choice as to whether to accept something as payment for a debt, that is by definition no longer legal tender. AIUI generaly cash transactions in a store do not involve a debt to the store and therefore legal tender is not directly relevant.
Yes, exactly. You must take possession, or consume, a good or service before paying to incur a debt, and only then does the distinction of legal tender come into play.
Say you are buying a sandwich at some place like Subway. You don't take possession of the goods until after you have handed over your money (even though you might be holding it in your hands), so there is never any debt, so they are free to refuse $100 bills (which a lot of shops did before the 100 was updated to the 2001 "Canadian Journey" series).
Now in a restaurant where you sit down and eat before paying, there a debt is incurred, and they cannot refuse legal tender without absolving you of your debt. Note however that the law does not obligate them to make change!
Pennies are only legal tender in amounts no greater than 25 cents. So a restaurant can refuse to accept 2025 pennies in payment for a $20.25 meal without absolving you of your debt. But if you give them a twenty and 25 pennies they can't hold out for a twenty and a quarter.
The Mint stopped making new pennies last May (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2012/05/04/mb-canada-last-penny-mint.html). But they are still in circulation. What happens on February 4th is the Mint stops putting pennies it gets back into circulation. What is unclear is when exactly stores will be required to stop giving pennies out.
Right on. I have this argument with friends occasionally. If you don't like the price or some other aspect of the product (eg. having to use Origin for EA games), do the principled thing and don't consume it at all. It is too easy to say prices are too high or DRM is too onerous when you are getting it for free anyways. Real principles aren't easy.
Problem with these cameras of course, bad officers will soon learn to strike out of camera view with fist and truncheon to escalate violence, whilst their partner 'looks' the other way and then deny it with 'proof' of video. Much like DNA evidence, better not get too wrapped into what the camera 'sees' unless they go with a fish eye lens and high resolution so they can extract the scene they are after.
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. Photos and video are incredibly powerful and persuasive. Even without doctoring them, they can be tremendously misleading. Present a video in court and a jury will believe that if something is not in the video IT DID NOT HAPPEN. If someone doesn't believe that they can be misled with unaltered photos and video, they are a fool. It happens every day in the news we read and watch.
7200.10. I just RMAed 2 of them recently. Died on arrival with the "chirp of death" (sounds like a little metal bird inside the HD). Only reason I got them was because I had good experience with the.7s and.8s. Lesson learned: in the HD market, past experience with a different model is irrelevant.
We've being peppered with articles about FF3 lately. Most have been fairly light on content but the consistent high praise (and personal experience using beta2) has made it clear to me that FF3 will be very, very good. I'm actually looking forward to the official release.
Getting excited about a new version of a web browser: how 90's is that?
I've posted this before but it bears repeating every time this subject comes up.
The copyright bill will be introduced sometime soon. It is now considered, thanks to the efforts of everyone who called and wrote in December, a high profile bill.
A bill goes through 3 readings in the House of Commons. After the third it is passed to the Senate. After the first and second reading the bill may be sent to committee for hearings and modification. Now here is where it gets tricky. After the second reading the committee cannot make major changes to the bill, so if the proposed copyright legislation is really broken (and by all indications it will be) it needs to go to committee after first reading where it can be completely overhauled if need be.
But it is the discretion of the House leaders (each party) whether it goes to committee after the first reading.
So you all need to write (an actual physical letter works best) to the Leader, House Leader, and Industry critic of the opposition parties to tell them this bill must go to committee after the first reading so we have an opportunity for hearings and major revisions. Send copies to Stephen Harper, Jim Prentice (Minister of Industry), Josée Verner (Heritage), Peter Van Loan (Government House Leader), James Rajotte (head of the Industry committee) and your local MP while you are at it.
The government has also made a big deal about how they now follow the Ponsonby Rule, which says that a treaty will be presented to the house for debate at least 21 days before introducing ratifying legislation. This means that there should be a debate on the WIPO treaty before the copyright bill is introduced. They have not done this. You might want to point that out in your letter as well.
This might sound like a lot of work, but because of the minority government this is probably the best time for this legislation. Remember, committees are made up proportional to seats in the House, so the Government has to bargain with the opposition there too.
I originally posted this on Friday to this article on the same subject.
A handful of us met with our MP this very afternoon (Laurie Hawn - Conservative for Edmonton Centre). We talked about our concerns and what happens next for about an hour.
The bill will be introduced sometime in the next month or so. It is now considered, thanks to the efforts of everyone who called and wrote in December, a high profile bill.
A bill goes through 3 readings in the House of Commons. After the third it is passed to the Senate. After the first and second reading the bill may be sent to committee for hearings and modification. Now here is where it gets tricky. After the second reading the committee cannot make major changes to the bill, so if the proposed copyright legislation is really broken (and by all indications it will be) it needs to go to committee after first reading where it can be completely overhauled if need be.
But it is the discretion of the House leaders (each party) whether it goes to committee after the first reading.
So you all need to write (an actual physical letter works best) to the Leader, House Leader, and Industry critic of the opposition parties to tell them this bill must go to committee after the first reading so we have an opportunity for hearings and major revisions. Send copies to Stephen Harper, Jim Prentice (Minister of Industry), Josée Verner (Heritage), Peter Van Loan (Government House Leader), James Rajotte (head of the Industry committee) and your local MP while you are at it.
This might sound like a lot of work, but because of the minority government this is probably the best time for this legislation. Remember, committees are made up proportional to seats in the House, so the Government has to bargain with the opposition there too.
A handful of us met with our MP this very afternoon (Laurie Hawn - Conservative for Edmonton Centre). We talked about our concerns and what happens next for about an hour.
The bill will be introduced sometime in the next month or so. It is now considered, thanks to the efforts of everyone who called and wrote in December, a high profile bill.
A bill goes through 3 readings in the House of Commons. After the third it is passed to the Senate. After the first and second reading the bill may be sent to committee for hearings and modification. Now here is where it gets tricky. After the second reading the committee cannot make major changes to the bill, so if the proposed copyright legislation is really broken (and by all indications it will be) it needs to go to committee after first reading where it can be completely overhauled if need be.
But it is the discretion of the House leaders (each party) whether it goes to committee after the first reading.
So you all need to write the Leader, House Leader, and Industry critic of the opposition parties to tell them this bill must go to committee after the first reading so we have an opportunity for hearings and major revisions. Send copies to Stephen Harper, Jim Prentice (Minister of Industry), Josée Verner (Heritage), Peter Van Loan (Government House Leader), James Rajotte (head of the Industry committee) and your local MP while you are at it.
This might sound like a lot of work, but because of the minority government this is probably the best time for this legislation. Remember, committees are made up proportional to seats in the House, so the Government has to bargain with the opposition there too.
It's Freeciv for me, even though Alpha Centauri is technically superior (unit workshop RULES). Alpha Centauri's story, while excellent, prevents it from having the sandbox replayability that Freeciv has.
Unless there is a way to turn off the story that I don't know about?
As a longtime F1 fan I am not surprised. The FIA (and Bernie and Max) have been out of touch with the needs of the sport for quite a while. The "cost-cutting" move to V8s from the nice V10s ended up costing a lot of money and angering the teams. They pushed out Michelin because Michelin wouldn't toe the line. They won't restructure the revenue stream to help the teams and then blame the teams for making the sport too expensive. They create the two race engine rule that reduces the spectacle for little cost saving. All while ignoring one of the biggest expenses: testing. It is so simple: take away in-season private testing, make Friday an open test day and have one engine for qualifying and race (don't get me started on how messed up qualifying is).
They pay low insurance rates *because* they have less accidents. Insurance companies make no gifts. They do math. Very precise mathon large sample sizes.
No, they pay low insurance rates because that is all they can afford. If the rates were any higher they would have to stop driving, giving the insurance companies no money at all.
Insurance companies are businesses, and businesses exist to maximize profit. For a given group of people they will charge whatever will make them the most profit. Take young men as an example. Everyone says their rates are so high because they are aggressive drivers that cost the insurance companies a lot of money. This may be true, but it is not the whole story. Young men also tend to view being able to drive a car as very, very important to them. The law requires them to have insurance to drive, and they really want to drive (to get the chicks), so they get charged high rates. It is a captive market and the only reason the rates are not higher is because the insurance companies know that if they were, young men (with their aggressive, devil-may-care attitudes) would just start flaunting the law and drive uninsured.
So yes, the insurance companies do math. But the focus is on profits, not the benefit of their customers.
Paper based ballots with optical scan isn't a bad compromise.
Especially since they provide an authoritative, physical record of the voter's original intent.
Paper receipts are not good enough because they do not necessarily reflect original intent. What good is a paper receipt from a computer after voting for 50+ offices/ballot measures? Will people remember all the choices they made?
Lenina Huxley: That is correct, money is out-moded. All transactions are through code. John Spartan: All right, so he can't buy food or a place to stay for the night. And, it would be a waste of time to mug somebody. Unless he rips off somebody's hand, and let's hope he doesn't figure that one out.
Once again, Demolition Man predicts the future.
Christina Ricci, on the other hand, seems like she was born that way. Remember her as Wednesday Addams?
That movie was full of inspired casting. And lots of great lines, too.
Girl Scout: Is this made from real lemons?
Wednesday: Yes.
Girl Scout: I only like all-natural foods and beverages, organically grown, with no preservatives. Are you sure they're real lemons?
Pugsley: Yes.
Girl Scout: I'll tell you what. I'll buy a cup if you buy a box of my delicious Girl Scout cookies. Do we have a deal?
Wednesday: Are they made from real Girl Scouts?
Close. Remember that not all processors are created equally, even if they came from the same die. Manufacturing imperfections mean that some will be better than others. The best can be pushed to the highest speeds, the others need the same amount of push to get to lower speeds. So it is possible that a higher rated CPU when underclocked to the level of a lower rated CPU they will display different thermal characteristics.
These tables seem to confirm that. Look at the Winchesters on page 13. The 3000 runs at 1.8GHz with a TDP of 67W. The 3500 (2.2GHz) can be run at 1.8GHz with a TDP of 46W.
Has this ever been independently and scientifically confirmed? I would be very interested in the results.
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If you have a choice as to whether to accept something as payment for a debt, that is by definition no longer legal tender.
AIUI generaly cash transactions in a store do not involve a debt to the store and therefore legal tender is not directly relevant.
Yes, exactly. You must take possession, or consume, a good or service before paying to incur a debt, and only then does the distinction of legal tender come into play.
Say you are buying a sandwich at some place like Subway. You don't take possession of the goods until after you have handed over your money (even though you might be holding it in your hands), so there is never any debt, so they are free to refuse $100 bills (which a lot of shops did before the 100 was updated to the 2001 "Canadian Journey" series).
Now in a restaurant where you sit down and eat before paying, there a debt is incurred, and they cannot refuse legal tender without absolving you of your debt. Note however that the law does not obligate them to make change!
Pennies are only legal tender in amounts no greater than 25 cents. So a restaurant can refuse to accept 2025 pennies in payment for a $20.25 meal without absolving you of your debt. But if you give them a twenty and 25 pennies they can't hold out for a twenty and a quarter.
The Mint stopped making new pennies last May (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2012/05/04/mb-canada-last-penny-mint.html). But they are still in circulation. What happens on February 4th is the Mint stops putting pennies it gets back into circulation. What is unclear is when exactly stores will be required to stop giving pennies out.
Right on. I have this argument with friends occasionally. If you don't like the price or some other aspect of the product (eg. having to use Origin for EA games), do the principled thing and don't consume it at all. It is too easy to say prices are too high or DRM is too onerous when you are getting it for free anyways. Real principles aren't easy.
Problem with these cameras of course, bad officers will soon learn to strike out of camera view with fist and truncheon to escalate violence, whilst their partner 'looks' the other way and then deny it with 'proof' of video. Much like DNA evidence, better not get too wrapped into what the camera 'sees' unless they go with a fish eye lens and high resolution so they can extract the scene they are after.
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. Photos and video are incredibly powerful and persuasive. Even without doctoring them, they can be tremendously misleading. Present a video in court and a jury will believe that if something is not in the video IT DID NOT HAPPEN. If someone doesn't believe that they can be misled with unaltered photos and video, they are a fool. It happens every day in the news we read and watch.
7200.10. I just RMAed 2 of them recently. Died on arrival with the "chirp of death" (sounds like a little metal bird inside the HD). Only reason I got them was because I had good experience with the .7s and .8s. Lesson learned: in the HD market, past experience with a different model is irrelevant.
I heard Preparation G made flames come out of your ass.
If you were going to buy GTA IV, and on this news now won't, please post. I mean they've lost my $50.
Mine too. Was looking forward to it, but there are plenty of other games I can spend my time and money on.
Rockstar: see this $50? Not for you anymore.
We've being peppered with articles about FF3 lately. Most have been fairly light on content but the consistent high praise (and personal experience using beta2) has made it clear to me that FF3 will be very, very good. I'm actually looking forward to the official release.
Getting excited about a new version of a web browser: how 90's is that?
The copyright bill will be introduced sometime soon. It is now considered, thanks to the efforts of everyone who called and wrote in December, a high profile bill.
A bill goes through 3 readings in the House of Commons. After the third it is passed to the Senate. After the first and second reading the bill may be sent to committee for hearings and modification. Now here is where it gets tricky. After the second reading the committee cannot make major changes to the bill, so if the proposed copyright legislation is really broken (and by all indications it will be) it needs to go to committee after first reading where it can be completely overhauled if need be.
But it is the discretion of the House leaders (each party) whether it goes to committee after the first reading.
So you all need to write (an actual physical letter works best) to the Leader, House Leader, and Industry critic of the opposition parties to tell them this bill must go to committee after the first reading so we have an opportunity for hearings and major revisions. Send copies to Stephen Harper, Jim Prentice (Minister of Industry), Josée Verner (Heritage), Peter Van Loan (Government House Leader), James Rajotte (head of the Industry committee) and your local MP while you are at it.
The government has also made a big deal about how they now follow the Ponsonby Rule, which says that a treaty will be presented to the house for debate at least 21 days before introducing ratifying legislation. This means that there should be a debate on the WIPO treaty before the copyright bill is introduced. They have not done this. You might want to point that out in your letter as well.
This might sound like a lot of work, but because of the minority government this is probably the best time for this legislation. Remember, committees are made up proportional to seats in the House, so the Government has to bargain with the opposition there too.
A handful of us met with our MP this very afternoon (Laurie Hawn - Conservative for Edmonton Centre). We talked about our concerns and what happens next for about an hour.
The bill will be introduced sometime in the next month or so. It is now considered, thanks to the efforts of everyone who called and wrote in December, a high profile bill.
A bill goes through 3 readings in the House of Commons. After the third it is passed to the Senate. After the first and second reading the bill may be sent to committee for hearings and modification. Now here is where it gets tricky. After the second reading the committee cannot make major changes to the bill, so if the proposed copyright legislation is really broken (and by all indications it will be) it needs to go to committee after first reading where it can be completely overhauled if need be.
But it is the discretion of the House leaders (each party) whether it goes to committee after the first reading.
So you all need to write (an actual physical letter works best) to the Leader, House Leader, and Industry critic of the opposition parties to tell them this bill must go to committee after the first reading so we have an opportunity for hearings and major revisions. Send copies to Stephen Harper, Jim Prentice (Minister of Industry), Josée Verner (Heritage), Peter Van Loan (Government House Leader), James Rajotte (head of the Industry committee) and your local MP while you are at it.
This might sound like a lot of work, but because of the minority government this is probably the best time for this legislation. Remember, committees are made up proportional to seats in the House, so the Government has to bargain with the opposition there too.
The bill will be introduced sometime in the next month or so. It is now considered, thanks to the efforts of everyone who called and wrote in December, a high profile bill.
A bill goes through 3 readings in the House of Commons. After the third it is passed to the Senate. After the first and second reading the bill may be sent to committee for hearings and modification. Now here is where it gets tricky. After the second reading the committee cannot make major changes to the bill, so if the proposed copyright legislation is really broken (and by all indications it will be) it needs to go to committee after first reading where it can be completely overhauled if need be.
But it is the discretion of the House leaders (each party) whether it goes to committee after the first reading.
So you all need to write the Leader, House Leader, and Industry critic of the opposition parties to tell them this bill must go to committee after the first reading so we have an opportunity for hearings and major revisions. Send copies to Stephen Harper, Jim Prentice (Minister of Industry), Josée Verner (Heritage), Peter Van Loan (Government House Leader), James Rajotte (head of the Industry committee) and your local MP while you are at it.
This might sound like a lot of work, but because of the minority government this is probably the best time for this legislation. Remember, committees are made up proportional to seats in the House, so the Government has to bargain with the opposition there too.
Tightened it up a bit more for you.
Let me guess, 115 in the 94/95 year?
It's Freeciv for me, even though Alpha Centauri is technically superior (unit workshop RULES). Alpha Centauri's story, while excellent, prevents it from having the sandbox replayability that Freeciv has.
Unless there is a way to turn off the story that I don't know about?
MS Windows.
So call it "flex source" or "agile source" The military loves terms like that.
As a longtime F1 fan I am not surprised. The FIA (and Bernie and Max) have been out of touch with the needs of the sport for quite a while. The "cost-cutting" move to V8s from the nice V10s ended up costing a lot of money and angering the teams. They pushed out Michelin because Michelin wouldn't toe the line. They won't restructure the revenue stream to help the teams and then blame the teams for making the sport too expensive. They create the two race engine rule that reduces the spectacle for little cost saving. All while ignoring one of the biggest expenses: testing. It is so simple: take away in-season private testing, make Friday an open test day and have one engine for qualifying and race (don't get me started on how messed up qualifying is).
No, they pay low insurance rates because that is all they can afford. If the rates were any higher they would have to stop driving, giving the insurance companies no money at all.
Insurance companies are businesses, and businesses exist to maximize profit. For a given group of people they will charge whatever will make them the most profit. Take young men as an example. Everyone says their rates are so high because they are aggressive drivers that cost the insurance companies a lot of money. This may be true, but it is not the whole story. Young men also tend to view being able to drive a car as very, very important to them. The law requires them to have insurance to drive, and they really want to drive (to get the chicks), so they get charged high rates. It is a captive market and the only reason the rates are not higher is because the insurance companies know that if they were, young men (with their aggressive, devil-may-care attitudes) would just start flaunting the law and drive uninsured.
So yes, the insurance companies do math. But the focus is on profits, not the benefit of their customers.
Especially since they provide an authoritative, physical record of the voter's original intent. Paper receipts are not good enough because they do not necessarily reflect original intent. What good is a paper receipt from a computer after voting for 50+ offices/ballot measures? Will people remember all the choices they made?
I like your plan.
Lenina Huxley: That is correct, money is out-moded. All transactions are through code.
John Spartan: All right, so he can't buy food or a place to stay for the night. And, it would be a waste of time to mug somebody. Unless he rips off somebody's hand, and let's hope he doesn't figure that one out. Once again, Demolition Man predicts the future.
That movie was full of inspired casting. And lots of great lines, too.
Girl Scout: Is this made from real lemons?
Wednesday: Yes.
Girl Scout: I only like all-natural foods and beverages, organically grown, with no preservatives. Are you sure they're real lemons?
Pugsley: Yes.
Girl Scout: I'll tell you what. I'll buy a cup if you buy a box of my delicious Girl Scout cookies. Do we have a deal?
Wednesday: Are they made from real Girl Scouts?
These tables seem to confirm that. Look at the Winchesters on page 13. The 3000 runs at 1.8GHz with a TDP of 67W. The 3500 (2.2GHz) can be run at 1.8GHz with a TDP of 46W.
Has this ever been independently and scientifically confirmed? I would be very interested in the results.