This actually happened to me when I was a high-school student... Back before the internet crash, when you could get domain names for free, a friend of mine wanted to put a website up of his balls, just his balls, at jasonsballs.com (made-up first name). He was 16 and I was 17. I registered the site and drew up the html, with jasonsballs.com in big red letter, a single gif of his ballsack, and an angelfire counter. A few days later and a coupl e thousand hits later, I'm in the administrative office at my highschool with the police. They asked me about it and I explained what we had done (mistake of course). After a bit of time both of us were charged with "Pandering Obscenity of a Minor" or some such charge, a 5th degree felony. After months of lawyers talking, we finally had a court date. 5 minutes in, when an actual judge saw the case, he dismissed it immediately. Nevermind the thousands of dollars in attorney's fees that we had to pay.
I had an idea to call the ACLU at that time but thought that media exposure might hurt me in the long run, now I regret not calling them.
Anyway, this seems like a similar situation and hopefully competent decisions like this will continue to be made.
That contradicts my experience. I worked at a place called Camaco, doing 70 hour weeks for 9.50/hour. I atleast got overtime pay.. the temps didn't even get that. The health benefits weren't bad, but they were nowhere near as good as my mom's, who worked at Ford. She made over 30$/hour, got paid for 40 even though she rarely worked over 35, and could go to the doctor whenever she wanted.
I agree that Wikipedia editors shouldn't accept your letter as evidence to change the article. But I would think that out of everyone involved with the article, who would seem to have an interest in having the correct information, somebody would take the initiative to get a correction published. As those sources are credible enought to be cited, then they should be credible enough to judge your evidence.
Someone should send the scan to the websites, along with an explanation about the situation.
I pay 45$ a month for family talk with rollover. i've got what might as well be 1 million minutes stocked up, and just added an iphone to my plan for $29.99 a month, with unlimited data.
You just have to know how to play the game... if you go in wanting just a data-only plan, there's no room to find a good deal.
Whatever.. I just built an inspiron 1525 on the small business site, and it cost almost $100 more than the same PC 4 months ago that I bought from the Home site. Also the only crapware I could opt out of was an ISP.
You're right that sometimes you get better deals from the business page of a dealer, but it's not a rule.
What is all they want to do is use the high density chip technology they currently have to produce a 3 Ghz or faster 80386DX CPU ?
One with all the RAM it can handle as (core speed) cache?
Wow, could you imagine a beowulf cluster of those?
Pirating is more like buying from a different grocery store
How can it be anything like "buying" if you paid nothing.
or growing the food in your garden
The reason everyone doesn't grow food in their gardens, is because gardens take work, land, water, soil, and other investments. That is nothing like typing "adobe torrent" in google and you have your software in 10 minutes.
That way you deprive them of the sale, but they still have the groceries to sell to someone else
Why would anyone buy from that grocery store if they could go to the free groceries store down the street or go and pick groceries in their magic garden???
Televised means remote vision: that can happen over the internet as well as a TV. Actually the article uses televised in a general sense and uses the term narrowcast when going into details. which works for me.
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televise
1927 back-formation from television, on model of other verbs from nouns ending in -(v)ision (e.g. revise).
So etymologically, it pertains only to the television set. The justification for using the word here is semantic change
Update: Shacknews has updated its story to state "no statements have been made about the Star Wars business model," and attributing Mr. Riccitiello's comments to a misunderstanding. For the time being, then, this appears to be unsubstantiated information.
I hope everyone who's having problems returns it to the store. High levels of returns make the distributer very uneasy, which in turn should send a message to the publisher.
I see this suggestion sometimes, but every time I've ever tried to return an open pc game I've been told more or less to fuck off. What's you're secret?
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I think more people are becoming disenchanted with purely idealistic capitalism as you are, and change is always good.
In reference to your point about european countries, I believe from my own observations that atleast one of those countries (Germany) has an unsustainable social net. If you haven't already, you may want to research some of the economic turmoil that Germany has, and their inability to produce enough children to support their elderly (and resulting monetary incentives to procreate). They may have a comprehensive healthcare system, but in my experience the quality of care is poor, being even lower quality than U.S. HMO care. Also I believe their unemployment rate is rather high. The euro has also gone down.
Nevermind the political system, the economic policy, or whatever ideal your government may have: The fundamental problem in all governments is corruption, certainly not the least the USA. Unfortunately, it's also about the only guaranteed unsolvable problem... yet the only relatively important one.
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What I meant by that line was more like "in the eye of the beholder"... the impression that you would leave on the reader of being genuine or not is always going to be subjective.
I actually have read the mod guidelines, and I like to think that most people probably have. I think the majority of cases of people "not understanding what xxxxx mod means" are in fact people intentionally ignoring what that mod is supposed to mean.
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Isn't part of a troll mod the impression that your post leaves on the reader? Regardless of your intentions, if your post gives the impression of a troll you'll get modded a troll. In fact isn't that the whole point of modding a troll -- that the poster is just trying to aggravate folks and you mod it troll so people see that it's bait? If you have the feeling that someone is trolling but you don't mod them because they could be genuine, then no one would ever get called out on their bait.
In addition, your post really wasn't very constructive. You seemed to be calling the guy a political extremist just for a few sentences that really don't indicate anything other than that he has money or feels he may have money in the future.
Also, in regards to your request for a reprimand: do you really expect someone to blow all the mod points they've used for the topic just to tell you you're a jerk? It's alot easier just to click troll. Just my take...
You're excess bandwidth charge of 0.75 doesn't specify the unit, i.e. per kB or GB. I'd assume its per GB but shouldn't it be specified? Or is it implied?
charged with posessing a criminal artifact? The police get to have cool toys because they are police, and if they have to break in they will. Think slimjims, boltcutters etc. There is no conflict here.
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This actually happened to me when I was a high-school student... Back before the internet crash, when you could get domain names for free, a friend of mine wanted to put a website up of his balls, just his balls, at jasonsballs.com (made-up first name). He was 16 and I was 17. I registered the site and drew up the html, with jasonsballs.com in big red letter, a single gif of his ballsack, and an angelfire counter. A few days later and a coupl e thousand hits later, I'm in the administrative office at my highschool with the police. They asked me about it and I explained what we had done (mistake of course). After a bit of time both of us were charged with "Pandering Obscenity of a Minor" or some such charge, a 5th degree felony. After months of lawyers talking, we finally had a court date. 5 minutes in, when an actual judge saw the case, he dismissed it immediately. Nevermind the thousands of dollars in attorney's fees that we had to pay.
I had an idea to call the ACLU at that time but thought that media exposure might hurt me in the long run, now I regret not calling them.
Anyway, this seems like a similar situation and hopefully competent decisions like this will continue to be made.
And in most other languages acronym and abbreviation are not words.
Because he posted as AC
That contradicts my experience. I worked at a place called Camaco, doing 70 hour weeks for 9.50/hour. I atleast got overtime pay.. the temps didn't even get that. The health benefits weren't bad, but they were nowhere near as good as my mom's, who worked at Ford. She made over 30$/hour, got paid for 40 even though she rarely worked over 35, and could go to the doctor whenever she wanted.
I agree that Wikipedia editors shouldn't accept your letter as evidence to change the article. But I would think that out of everyone involved with the article, who would seem to have an interest in having the correct information, somebody would take the initiative to get a correction published. As those sources are credible enought to be cited, then they should be credible enough to judge your evidence.
Someone should send the scan to the websites, along with an explanation about the situation.
I pay 45$ a month for family talk with rollover. i've got what might as well be 1 million minutes stocked up, and just added an iphone to my plan for $29.99 a month, with unlimited data. You just have to know how to play the game... if you go in wanting just a data-only plan, there's no room to find a good deal.
Whatever.. I just built an inspiron 1525 on the small business site, and it cost almost $100 more than the same PC 4 months ago that I bought from the Home site. Also the only crapware I could opt out of was an ISP. You're right that sometimes you get better deals from the business page of a dealer, but it's not a rule.
What is all they want to do is use the high density chip technology they currently have to produce a 3 Ghz or faster 80386DX CPU ? One with all the RAM it can handle as (core speed) cache?
Wow, could you imagine a beowulf cluster of those?
I should also add that regardless of your intent, comparing software to any type of physical goods is futile and only hurting your argument.
Pirating is more like buying from a different grocery store
How can it be anything like "buying" if you paid nothing.
or growing the food in your garden
The reason everyone doesn't grow food in their gardens, is because gardens take work, land, water, soil, and other investments. That is nothing like typing "adobe torrent" in google and you have your software in 10 minutes.
That way you deprive them of the sale, but they still have the groceries to sell to someone else
Why would anyone buy from that grocery store if they could go to the free groceries store down the street or go and pick groceries in their magic garden???
What do you mean gmail doesn't use gmail.com?
mint is not superior.
Televised means remote vision: that can happen over the internet as well as a TV. Actually the article uses televised in a general sense and uses the term narrowcast when going into details. which works for me.
actually
televise 1927 back-formation from television, on model of other verbs from nouns ending in -(v)ision (e.g. revise).
So etymologically, it pertains only to the television set. The justification for using the word here is semantic change
My Yukon is gone, my Pontiac is gone, my wife's truck is gone
I'll give you the first two, but you don't get to take credit for your wife leaving you
As long as it's still GPL, you are allowed to modify the software before use, so I don't see any problem in removing the EULA.
From the EULA:
By downloading, installing, or using openSUSE 11.1, you agree to the terms of this agreement.
In order to modify your must've downloaded it, and therefore have agreed to it.
Update: Shacknews has updated its story to state "no statements have been made about the Star Wars business model," and attributing Mr. Riccitiello's comments to a misunderstanding. For the time being, then, this appears to be unsubstantiated information.
I hope everyone who's having problems returns it to the store. High levels of returns make the distributer very uneasy, which in turn should send a message to the publisher.
I see this suggestion sometimes, but every time I've ever tried to return an open pc game I've been told more or less to fuck off. What's you're secret?
I think more people are becoming disenchanted with purely idealistic capitalism as you are, and change is always good.
In reference to your point about european countries, I believe from my own observations that atleast one of those countries (Germany) has an unsustainable social net. If you haven't already, you may want to research some of the economic turmoil that Germany has, and their inability to produce enough children to support their elderly (and resulting monetary incentives to procreate). They may have a comprehensive healthcare system, but in my experience the quality of care is poor, being even lower quality than U.S. HMO care. Also I believe their unemployment rate is rather high. The euro has also gone down.
Nevermind the political system, the economic policy, or whatever ideal your government may have: The fundamental problem in all governments is corruption, certainly not the least the USA. Unfortunately, it's also about the only guaranteed unsolvable problem... yet the only relatively important one.
What I meant by that line was more like "in the eye of the beholder"... the impression that you would leave on the reader of being genuine or not is always going to be subjective.
I actually have read the mod guidelines, and I like to think that most people probably have. I think the majority of cases of people "not understanding what xxxxx mod means" are in fact people intentionally ignoring what that mod is supposed to mean.
Isn't part of a troll mod the impression that your post leaves on the reader? Regardless of your intentions, if your post gives the impression of a troll you'll get modded a troll. In fact isn't that the whole point of modding a troll -- that the poster is just trying to aggravate folks and you mod it troll so people see that it's bait? If you have the feeling that someone is trolling but you don't mod them because they could be genuine, then no one would ever get called out on their bait.
In addition, your post really wasn't very constructive. You seemed to be calling the guy a political extremist just for a few sentences that really don't indicate anything other than that he has money or feels he may have money in the future.
Also, in regards to your request for a reprimand: do you really expect someone to blow all the mod points they've used for the topic just to tell you you're a jerk? It's alot easier just to click troll. Just my take...
You're excess bandwidth charge of 0.75 doesn't specify the unit, i.e. per kB or GB. I'd assume its per GB but shouldn't it be specified? Or is it implied?
I can see from your e-mail address, @yahoo.com, the reason why you have a problem with 20 mails titled "re: call"
Make edit 2 or you're lying
If you're a student, you can get a copy that expires after a year for $150. Not cheap, but in the same range as your (overpriced) physics textbook.
Actually the 1-year version is $65. $150 is for the standard student version, which I think lasts four years.
charged with posessing a criminal artifact? The police get to have cool toys because they are police, and if they have to break in they will. Think slimjims, boltcutters etc. There is no conflict here.