Your honor, they were screaming at me, with guns pointed at me, to 'put your hands up! put your motherfucking hands up, or I will fucking shoot you dead!'
So I put my hands up. I wasn't about to risk death to explain to them that this would cause my computer to shut down.
Paraphrase: So my wife says, "Can you buy me this song?" I then go out of my way to make sure I'm using a service that isn't even compatible with her hardware. Somehow, this is Apple's, and/or Microsoft's, fault.
Say you get pulled over for a busted tail light, and the cop notices a corpse in your back seat. That's OK.
Say he says 'Ho-lee sheeeit, smells like dead body. Pop your trunk open.' And hey, there's a dead body in the trunk. That's OK.
But he can't say 'I done pulled you over for a busted tail light, but I'mma search your car for a corpse, even though I have no reason to believe there's any corpses.' Not reasonable.
Now, this guy gets pulled over for lane swerve. Fine. Cop can sniff his breath, look for signs of intoxication. Cop can eyeball the seats through the window, the ashtray, looking for booze bottles, roaches, whatever. But he can't say 'I have no real reason to, but I'm turning this traffic stop into a drug stop, *but first I need to call in extra equipment.* That's unreasonable.
If he'd happened to have had the dog with him, and decided to have the dog give the car a once-over, fine. Although I question the validity of dog searches; we know that animals can pick up on clues to what their owners want. See the Clever Hans phenomena. If the cop wants to search the car, the dog might just pick up on that and alert.
Also, he should read a correct translation. The commandment is 'do not murder,' not 'do not kill.' The Bible is perfectly clear that there's a time and a place for killing. Both Testaments are pretty clear on that.
Lets not forget, Christianity is, above all, an apocalyptic religion.
Yeah, I remember. However, a) it still worked on NVidia, and b) it doesn't seem to have helped AMD's marketshare.
Witcher 3 is included with all sorts of NVidia cards, I noticed today. It's still going to work on AMD. It doesn't mean CD Projeckt thinks AMD needs better Linux drivers.
I'd think steam users fall into two main camps; the casual 'whatever came with my PC' camp, and the 'hardcore gamers' camp. Hardcore gamers are either going to blindly go with their favorite platform, or they're going to go by benchmark numbers.
Charitable work makes you a religion? Is that codified somewhere? Is charitable work sufficient to make you a religion? Or just a subset of things which in some squishy way will?
No, charitable work is part of what gets you tax-exempt status, is the idea. Either way, you're contributing to the community, is how it was intended.
Now you're going to founder intent, despite having earlier dismissed founder intent. But sure, I'll give you one: Thomas Jefferson. He even made his own version of the Bible which removed any references to Jesus as a divine being, as opposed to a mortal philosopher with some good ideas.
Several of the founders were what we'd call agnostic, in this day and age.
Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity.
-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782
But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
-Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, Dec. 6, 1813.
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Horatio G. Spafford, March 17, 1814
The term 'separation of church and state' is from a letter, from Jefferson, explaining the First Amendment to the Committee of the Danbury Baptist Association.
Madison also wrote:
Strongly guarded. . . is the separation between religion and government in the Constitution of the United States.
in a similar vein.
I can also quote other official American law, such as the 'Treaty of Peace and Friendship Between the United States of America and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli, of Barbary,' 1797. Article 11:
As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Musselmen; and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
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With a 'real car,' how many times can you simulate losing control and going into the wall?
High River, Robert Dzienkanski, Frank Lasser all immediately come to mind. There are others.
Simply put, the police have extraordinary powers, therefore must be subject to extraordinary scrutiny.
Alternatively, just watch some swatting videos on youtube. It's pretty scary.
Couple that with 'no-knock' warrants....
Your honor, they were screaming at me, with guns pointed at me, to 'put your hands up! put your motherfucking hands up, or I will fucking shoot you dead!'
So I put my hands up. I wasn't about to risk death to explain to them that this would cause my computer to shut down.
Phrase it in the form of a partisan attack ad.
If the criminal has ANY way of knowing that you used the duress code, it's not a duress code, it's a giant red alarm button.
Paraphrase: So my wife says, "Can you buy me this song?" I then go out of my way to make sure I'm using a service that isn't even compatible with her hardware. Somehow, this is Apple's, and/or Microsoft's, fault.
Their licenses probably say that the government gets to do what they want, and shut up.
The handler doesn't even need to signal the dog. The handler might just want to search the car, and the dog picks up on unconscious cues, and alerts.
It's unreasonable search.
Say you get pulled over for a busted tail light, and the cop notices a corpse in your back seat. That's OK.
Say he says 'Ho-lee sheeeit, smells like dead body. Pop your trunk open.' And hey, there's a dead body in the trunk. That's OK.
But he can't say 'I done pulled you over for a busted tail light, but I'mma search your car for a corpse, even though I have no reason to believe there's any corpses.' Not reasonable.
Now, this guy gets pulled over for lane swerve. Fine. Cop can sniff his breath, look for signs of intoxication. Cop can eyeball the seats through the window, the ashtray, looking for booze bottles, roaches, whatever. But he can't say 'I have no real reason to, but I'm turning this traffic stop into a drug stop, *but first I need to call in extra equipment.* That's unreasonable.
If he'd happened to have had the dog with him, and decided to have the dog give the car a once-over, fine. Although I question the validity of dog searches; we know that animals can pick up on clues to what their owners want. See the Clever Hans phenomena. If the cop wants to search the car, the dog might just pick up on that and alert.
I don't see any sexual insults, but I do see a slang term used by the 'Tea Party,' for a while, to describe themselves.
Also, he should read a correct translation. The commandment is 'do not murder,' not 'do not kill.' The Bible is perfectly clear that there's a time and a place for killing. Both Testaments are pretty clear on that.
Lets not forget, Christianity is, above all, an apocalyptic religion.
If you buy a game that requires steam (Orange Box, W40K: DoW, etc) I'd say that qualifies as having spent money on steam.
Because choice is a bad thing.
Nah, it just means you'd have to use disposable accounts.
You think that because they *chose* not to shoot him down with a stinger, they're *incapable* of doing so?
Yeah, I remember. However, a) it still worked on NVidia, and b) it doesn't seem to have helped AMD's marketshare.
Witcher 3 is included with all sorts of NVidia cards, I noticed today. It's still going to work on AMD. It doesn't mean CD Projeckt thinks AMD needs better Linux drivers.
Steam Manager 1: Ok, lets tell NVidia what's what. Make HL3 AMD only. Somehow.
Steam Manager 2: Sir, I'm just looking at the Hardware Survey that we run, and just over half of our customers use NVidia.
Steam Manager 1: Oh. Ok, lets not throw away half of our potential sales.
Steam Manager 2: Good call.
Would that really help?
I'd think steam users fall into two main camps; the casual 'whatever came with my PC' camp, and the 'hardcore gamers' camp. Hardcore gamers are either going to blindly go with their favorite platform, or they're going to go by benchmark numbers.
How, exactly, would Valve influce NVidia? "Do better in open source, or we'll...." what, exactly?
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No, charitable work is part of what gets you tax-exempt status, is the idea. Either way, you're contributing to the community, is how it was intended.
Go look up the filings for various churges, including the CoS, the Catholic Church, and so on. Go ahead. Then tell me they're not for-profit.
Now you're going to founder intent, despite having earlier dismissed founder intent. But sure, I'll give you one: Thomas Jefferson. He even made his own version of the Bible which removed any references to Jesus as a divine being, as opposed to a mortal philosopher with some good ideas.
Several of the founders were what we'd call agnostic, in this day and age.
The term 'separation of church and state' is from a letter, from Jefferson, explaining the First Amendment to the Committee of the Danbury Baptist Association.
Madison also wrote:
in a similar vein.
I can also quote other official American law, such as the 'Treaty of Peace and Friendship Between the United States of America and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli, of Barbary,' 1797. Article 11:
Article VI disagrees with you there, bucko.