I live in PA, I believe that it's called a usage tax, or consumption tax or something like that. You're supposed to get forms from the state and pay your 6% state taxes on catalog and internet purchases.
Buying from out of state isn't a way to "LEGALLY" get around sales tax in this state. They are going ot get their 6%(7% if you're in Allegheny county, we have to build two new sports stadiums you know.).
After re reading this again, I didn't realize how badly HTML would goof up the greaterthan and lessthan characters. If anyone wants this, let me know I'll e-mail you a full working copy.
Although this code is GPLed, I request that if you make any modifications based upon it, please give me a little credit for writing the original code.
This code was written to be as easily portable as possible. It was written on an old Power Mac 7300/180, but it should compile and run under just about any OS.
The LarsSpeak array is comprised of real phrases from Lars, as well as a some that I made up but still sound LarsLike. */ #define __LARS_ULRICH DickHead #define ___METALLICA Sold_Out_Commercialized_Whiny_Babies #include #include #include #include #include
using namespace std;
string phrase[19];//Array of Lars Speak
//function prototypes
void setphrases(void);//Fill the phrases array with Lars Speak void larsspeak(int);//Send to the screen, int times, an example of Lars Speak
//end function prototypes
int main(){ srand(time (0));//seed the random number generator with the value pulled from the clock. setphrases();
char ch;
string filename; string *fn;
fn =
while (filename != "quit"){//Repeat this loop until the user enters quit at the following prompt
cout > filename; cout c_str());//Open the filename the user specified at the above prompt
if (!mystream.is_open()) { if (filename != "quit") {cout "FILE NOT OPENED ERROR!";}//If we can't open a file that was specified by the user, first check to see if we were told to quit, if not give an error. goto here; }
while (mystream){//get each character sequentially mystream.get(ch); if (ch == '\n'){//if the character is a newline, LARSIFY cout " "; larsspeak(1); goto here; }
if(mystream) cout ch; if (ch == ' '){//if we encounter a space if (!(rand() % 4)){//once out of every four times, LARSIFY larsspeak(1); } } here:; }
mystream.close();//when we're done, close the file for good measure. }
return 0;
}
void larsspeak (int i){ for (int x = 0; x i; x++){ cout phrase[(rand()%19)]; } }
void setphrases(void){ phrase[0] = "um, "; phrase[1] = "oh, "; phrase[2] = "well, "; phrase[3] = "James says, "; phrase[4] = "according to my lawyer, "; phrase[5] = "like, "; phrase[6] = "uh, "; phrase[7] = "ya see, "; phrase[8] = "I mean, "; phrase[9] = "I know how to get onto AOL, and I will say that I have used AOL a couple of times to check some hockey scores, but I'm no expert at this stuff, "; phrase[10] = "ya know, "; phrase[11] = "OK, "; phrase[12] = "basically "; phrase[13] = "and this is really the simplest way of saying it, "; phrase[14] = "I think "; phrase[15] = "well, it's like this,"; phrase[16] = "for one reason, and one reason only, "; phrase[17] = "I'm sorry, all of a sudden your mind goes blank, "; phrase[18] = "like I said before, "; } //Thank you
If you want a cardiovascular workout, take an aerobics class. If your teach is going to impart upon you knowledge that, if used incorrectly, can hurt people, then he should be teaching you a system of values. Just as a parent shouldn't hand a child a firearm without teaching that child the responsibility that goes along with it.
If you look at buddhist monks, some of them are the most amazing fighters that you'll ever see. Well into old age, many of them would be capable of clearing a bar full of drunken marines.
I had several teachers over the years, one of whom only cared about the fighting part. He wanted us to learn to be great fighters. I learned much from him, but I learned much more from the teachers who stressed self discipline and respect.
I had a teacher from Japan once, his family's katana hung on the wall above the mat. He helped me develop my ability to use the tonfa beyond what my previous instructor had. I watched as he had another student in the class kick him in the crotch hard enough to lift him off of his feet, and then he explained how it worked.
I assume that you know of the tiger and the dragon. Too many people take martial arts in pursuit of the tiger. The ability of the tiger to "whoop some ass" pales in comparison to the dragon. You can spend a night in jail because you kicked some guy's ass at the bar, I'll walk home because I knew enough to avoid that fight.
That's why it's imperitive for the instructors to teach their values along with the physical part of a martial art.
Maybe you had bad teachers, maybe you were a bad student, I don't know about your experiences. Nonetheless I will not stay silent while you malign a great art form.
Martial arts fit the bill for many people, despite the cult/fascist/zen approach taken by some schools
While I respect your right to your own opinion, I must disagree here. You use these terms in a pejorative manner.
If you're looking for strictly a cardiovascular workout, take an aerobics class. While Billy Blanks is an extremely skilled martial artist, this Tae Bo shit has to stop. If you're not willing to put in the time and expend the energy, you shouldn't be doing it.
The people running Take 2 have their heads on straight. I remember when they refused to allow Derek Smart to milk any more money out of them by releasing BC3000.
If anyone has the smarts to keep their heads above water versus M$, it would be Take 2.
Although it has suffered over the last 8 years, the FBI does care about thir reputation. For half a century the FBI was the pinnacle of US law enforcement.
Their is a chain of responsibility. The FBI agents are responsible, ultimately, to the director. The director is responsible to the president. The president (current example excluded) is responsible to the voters.
Background checks through databases constantly give false positive results. In the first year after the brady act's passage the FBI's database gave back somewhere in the neighborhood of 60,000 false positive hits on background checks. If the FBI can have that many errors, who do you think that a private firm can do any better?
I think that permanent marking of felons would be a much better way to go, the blaze orange driver's license wouldn't be perfect but it would eliminate the errors of the current system.
I think that the current method of dealing with copyright infringement is the way for Napster to go.
Identify individual violators and block their accounts. An ISP doesn't have to check to see if all of the files that you upload/download are legal, they just have to deal with you when they get a report that you're dealing in warez.
I know that pen & ink signatures ca be forged, but a digital sig would (at least now) would be FAR TOO easy to copy. They're going to make this easy for the morons with their first computers (Presario) to use. What does that mean? It'll have to be less secure. People would rather it be easy than secure.
So let's say that someone intercepts a digital signature on a Non-Disclosure Agreement or somesuch and then types up an agreement saying that they've already given you $X in cash and in exchange you agree to give up your house and then tacks that intercepted sig onto the bottom. You'd actually have to spend money on a lawyer to keep your house.
Until we have universal standards for STRONG crypto, I think that this is a BAD idea.
This guy claims to be such an important security expert, yet in addition to reading all of the "Hacker books", visiting "Hacker webpages", reading all of the traffic from the "Hacker mailing lists", and earning a living he STILL has time to hack his way across the internet and steal a hundred megabytes of information from these people.
I think that he even throws in the negative comments about AOL users in an attempts to curry favor with people like us.
Rodona, or whoever she is, has some decent nipples but I doubt the veracity of his story.
I made the list of people whom this company is afraid to spam my old email address of "lordkano@sgi.net" is on the list download the list of people whom they fear from... http://homepages.manawatu.net.nz/~alanjb/misc.ht m
I'm talking theoretically, IF it were possible to copy money without causing a loss to anyone else, it would not be stealing.
Counterfeitting is not theft. It's illegal, it may or may not be immoral, but it (in and of itself) is not theft. When someone passes a counterfeir bill, they are stealing from a merchant or service provider, but the actualy acy of printing those bills is not theft.
I was always under the impression that stealing is taking something that is not rightfully yours.
Is copying taking? Although unethical by most all standards, one student copying the work of another is not stealing it. The first student still has his/her original work.
Unreasonable? Who is your ISP. I'll bet you $0.00 that there is a provision in their service contract that for all intents and purposes prohibits you from using a bot to mintain your connection.
I haven't seem them attack Knapser, Gnapster or any other cloned client. Hell they even have a link to macster on their main page. They don't appear ot care which client you use, as long as you don't use a bot.
It's completely reasonable. Napster is a free service that they provide at their whim. For a free service they could forbid you from wearing blue velvet panties at any time while you were connected.
Yeah, person A has produced a song, person B downloads it, person A has lost potential revenue and person B has music.
You make the assumption that person B WOULD HAVE bought the song if he had not been able to download it for free.
What if person C bought song X from person A, and then re-sells song X to person B? Is that theft? If person B has bought a new copy of song X from person A, then person A would have made more money. That is the loss of potential revenue.
Half Life is a perfect example of why id should be out of the game publishing business. They should simply be making engines that others customize for use in game publishing.
Half Life and Kingpin blow Q2 out of the water. I'm tired of the run and shoot and run and shoot and run and shoot and run and shoot and run and shoot and run and shoot gameplay of id games.
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I live in PA, I believe that it's called a usage tax, or consumption tax or something like that. You're supposed to get forms from the state and pay your 6% state taxes on catalog and internet purchases.
Buying from out of state isn't a way to "LEGALLY" get around sales tax in this state. They are going ot get their 6%(7% if you're in Allegheny county, we have to build two new sports stadiums you know.).
LK
After re reading this again, I didn't realize how badly HTML would goof up the greaterthan and lessthan characters. If anyone wants this, let me know I'll e-mail you a full working copy.
LK
Silly me, I forgot that seeing these at html would make the includes invisible.
iostream
ctime
iomanip
fstream
string
/*This is my Lars-O-Matic gibberish generator
©2000 Lord Kano
Although this code is GPLed, I request that if you make any modifications based upon it, please give me a little credit
for writing the original code.
This code was written to be as easily portable as possible. It was written on an old Power Mac 7300/180, but it should
compile and run under just about any OS.
The LarsSpeak array is comprised of real phrases from Lars, as well as a some that I made up but still sound LarsLike.
*/
#define __LARS_ULRICH DickHead
#define ___METALLICA Sold_Out_Commercialized_Whiny_Babies
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
using namespace std;
string phrase[19];//Array of Lars Speak
//function prototypes
void setphrases(void);//Fill the phrases array with Lars Speak
void larsspeak(int);//Send to the screen, int times, an example of Lars Speak
//end function prototypes
int main(){
srand(time (0));//seed the random number generator with the value pulled from the clock.
setphrases();
char ch;
string filename;
string *fn;
fn =
while (filename != "quit"){//Repeat this loop until the user enters quit at the following prompt
cout > filename;
cout c_str());//Open the filename the user specified at the above prompt
if (!mystream.is_open()) {
if (filename != "quit") {cout "FILE NOT OPENED ERROR!";}//If we can't open a file that was specified by the user, first check to see if we were told to quit, if not give an error.
goto here;
}
while (mystream){//get each character sequentially
mystream.get(ch);
if (ch == '\n'){//if the character is a newline, LARSIFY
cout " ";
larsspeak(1);
goto here;
}
if(mystream) cout ch;
if (ch == ' '){//if we encounter a space
if (!(rand() % 4)){//once out of every four times, LARSIFY
larsspeak(1);
}
}
here:;
}
mystream.close();//when we're done, close the file for good measure.
}
return 0;
}
void larsspeak (int i){
for (int x = 0; x i; x++){
cout phrase[(rand()%19)];
}
}
void setphrases(void){
phrase[0] = "um, ";
phrase[1] = "oh, ";
phrase[2] = "well, ";
phrase[3] = "James says, ";
phrase[4] = "according to my lawyer, ";
phrase[5] = "like, ";
phrase[6] = "uh, ";
phrase[7] = "ya see, ";
phrase[8] = "I mean, ";
phrase[9] = "I know how to get onto AOL, and I will say that I have used AOL a couple of times to check some hockey scores, but I'm no expert at this stuff, ";
phrase[10] = "ya know, ";
phrase[11] = "OK, ";
phrase[12] = "basically ";
phrase[13] = "and this is really the simplest way of saying it, ";
phrase[14] = "I think ";
phrase[15] = "well, it's like this,";
phrase[16] = "for one reason, and one reason only, ";
phrase[17] = "I'm sorry, all of a sudden your mind goes blank, ";
phrase[18] = "like I said before, ";
}
//Thank you
If you want a cardiovascular workout, take an aerobics class. If your teach is going to impart upon you knowledge that, if used incorrectly, can hurt people, then he should be teaching you a system of values. Just as a parent shouldn't hand a child a firearm without teaching that child the responsibility that goes along with it.
If you look at buddhist monks, some of them are the most amazing fighters that you'll ever see. Well into old age, many of them would be capable of clearing a bar full of drunken marines.
I had several teachers over the years, one of whom only cared about the fighting part. He wanted us to learn to be great fighters. I learned much from him, but I learned much more from the teachers who stressed self discipline and respect.
I had a teacher from Japan once, his family's katana hung on the wall above the mat. He helped me develop my ability to use the tonfa beyond what my previous instructor had. I watched as he had another student in the class kick him in the crotch hard enough to lift him off of his feet, and then he explained how it worked.
I assume that you know of the tiger and the dragon. Too many people take martial arts in pursuit of the tiger. The ability of the tiger to "whoop some ass" pales in comparison to the dragon. You can spend a night in jail because you kicked some guy's ass at the bar, I'll walk home because I knew enough to avoid that fight.
That's why it's imperitive for the instructors to teach their values along with the physical part of a martial art.
Maybe you had bad teachers, maybe you were a bad student, I don't know about your experiences. Nonetheless I will not stay silent while you malign a great art form.
LK
Martial arts fit the bill for many people, despite the cult/fascist/zen approach taken by some schools
While I respect your right to your own opinion, I must disagree here. You use these terms in a pejorative manner.
If you're looking for strictly a cardiovascular workout, take an aerobics class. While Billy Blanks is an extremely skilled martial artist, this Tae Bo shit has to stop. If you're not willing to put in the time and expend the energy, you shouldn't be doing it.
LK
The people running Take 2 have their heads on straight. I remember when they refused to allow Derek Smart to milk any more money out of them by releasing BC3000.
If anyone has the smarts to keep their heads above water versus M$, it would be Take 2.
LK
I supppose that it depends on how you define youth. Do you mean 15-18 year olds, or do you include people in their 20s?
LK
Although it has suffered over the last 8 years, the FBI does care about thir reputation. For half a century the FBI was the pinnacle of US law enforcement.
Their is a chain of responsibility. The FBI agents are responsible, ultimately, to the director. The director is responsible to the president. The president (current example excluded) is responsible to the voters.
LK
Background checks through databases constantly give false positive results. In the first year after the brady act's passage the FBI's database gave back somewhere in the neighborhood of 60,000 false positive hits on background checks. If the FBI can have that many errors, who do you think that a private firm can do any better?
I think that permanent marking of felons would be a much better way to go, the blaze orange driver's license wouldn't be perfect but it would eliminate the errors of the current system.
LK
Why is it that I can't find any source for that quote other than you?
I think that the current method of dealing with copyright infringement is the way for Napster to go.
Identify individual violators and block their accounts. An ISP doesn't have to check to see if all of the files that you upload/download are legal, they just have to deal with you when they get a report that you're dealing in warez.
I don't see why Napster has to do anything more.
LK
I'm just glad that I'm a porn connoisseur, or else I wouldn't have know what a "fluffer" is and gotten myself in trouble.
I realize that it's not as simple as cut and paste, and perhaps I should have explained that.
I know that pen & ink signatures ca be forged, but a digital sig would (at least now) would be FAR TOO easy to copy. They're going to make this easy for the morons with their first computers (Presario) to use. What does that mean? It'll have to be less secure. People would rather it be easy than secure.
So let's say that someone intercepts a digital signature on a Non-Disclosure Agreement or somesuch and then types up an agreement saying that they've already given you $X in cash and in exchange you agree to give up your house and then tacks that intercepted sig onto the bottom. You'd actually have to spend money on a lawyer to keep your house.
Until we have universal standards for STRONG crypto, I think that this is a BAD idea.
LK
that this is a spoof.
This guy claims to be such an important security expert, yet in addition to reading all of the "Hacker books", visiting "Hacker webpages", reading all of the traffic from the "Hacker mailing lists", and earning a living he STILL has time to hack his way across the internet and steal a hundred megabytes of information from these people.
I think that he even throws in the negative comments about AOL users in an attempts to curry favor with people like us.
Rodona, or whoever she is, has some decent nipples but I doubt the veracity of his story.
LK
I made the list of people whom this company is afraid to spam my old email address of "lordkano@sgi.net" is on the list download the list of people whom they fear from...t m
http://homepages.manawatu.net.nz/~alanjb/misc.h
LK
So civil disobedience is childish to you?
What do you think of people Ghandhi or Martin Luther King?
Were they childish for refuing to compromise their beliefs?
Just because you don't like a behavior isn't a good enough reason for you to start calling names.
LK
I'm talking theoretically, IF it were possible to copy money without causing a loss to anyone else, it would not be stealing.
Counterfeitting is not theft. It's illegal, it may or may not be immoral, but it (in and of itself) is not theft. When someone passes a counterfeir bill, they are stealing from a merchant or service provider, but the actualy acy of printing those bills is not theft.
LK
Not the point. Some here are claiming that denying someone possible revenue is the same as theft.
LK
Win 9x has no preemptive multitasking. Win 9x has no protected memory. Where was Carmack's lack of respect there?
Want to lock up a Win 95 box tight?
#include
main(){
here: goto here;
return 0;}
The task scheduler will choke die if you run a program that wants only CPU and no memory or disk access.
LK
I was always under the impression that stealing is taking something that is not rightfully yours.
Is copying taking? Although unethical by most all standards, one student copying the work of another is not stealing it. The first student still has his/her original work.
LK
No, because Napster's bot ban is unreasonable.
Unreasonable? Who is your ISP. I'll bet you $0.00 that there is a provision in their service contract that for all intents and purposes prohibits you from using a bot to mintain your connection.
I haven't seem them attack Knapser, Gnapster or any other cloned client. Hell they even have a link to macster on their main page. They don't appear ot care which client you use, as long as you don't use a bot.
It's completely reasonable. Napster is a free service that they provide at their whim. For a free service they could forbid you from wearing blue velvet panties at any time while you were connected.
LK
Yeah, person A has produced a song, person B downloads it, person A has lost potential revenue and person B has music.
You make the assumption that person B WOULD HAVE bought the song if he had not been able to download it for free.
What if person C bought song X from person A, and then re-sells song X to person B? Is that theft? If person B has bought a new copy of song X from person A, then person A would have made more money. That is the loss of potential revenue.
LK
Half Life is a perfect example of why id should be out of the game publishing business. They should simply be making engines that others customize for use in game publishing.
Half Life and Kingpin blow Q2 out of the water. I'm tired of the run and shoot and run and shoot and run and shoot and run and shoot and run and shoot and run and shoot gameplay of id games.
LK