I don't know why, and my handwriting is so atrocious
I haven't even been alive for 25 years, and my handwriting, I can guarantee, is worse than yours. At least you may have had a time where you wrote by hand extensively; I never did.
Sure I do, in this case, it's taking valuable things from the productive people and distributing it to the undeserving -- some kind of forced, involuntary charity.
You have a differing understanding of the common definition of involuntary and forced. No one has taken a gun to the head of the inventor and said, "You must give away your invention for free." On the contrary, they have demanded that the inventor stop using the guns of the government to enforce his "earned" monopoly. To enforce the IP version of property rights requires the violation of the regular property rights of all others.
Hardly. 'English', 'Scottish', and even 'Irish' people are all really Welsh; they're just too embarrassed to admit it. Something about the silly place names...
And those poor Welsh souls are really wannabe Cornish!
It doesn't support it on my laptop either. It does boot up quickly. And it does boot up, it scrolls very very slowly. Even on my desktop, with a quadcore processor, it is very slow. I suppose that that may be due to video drivers.
Peripheral damages are certainly a viable reason for prohibition.
I demand that you stop driving; it can kill people. I wonder how many more people are killed by cars than drugs? Cars kill ~40000 in the US. Drugs kill ~17000. Poor diet killed ~365000. "Actual Causes of Death in the United States, 2000," Journal of the American Medical Association, March 10, 2004, Vol. 291, No. 10, pp. 1238, 1241.
Consumer protection, environmental, and public health initiatives all contain fine examples of that.
You will note that those programs are far from unopposed. The health issue in particular attracts a huge amount of debate.
But I personally haven't heard of major criminal enterprises based on numbers running or football betting causing too much trouble in the united states.
What responsibility ? We never had any say in the European Constitution/Lisbon treaty
It's not fair to make us responsible for things we never voted for.
Well you didn't rise up in revolt, therefore you accept it \Sarcasm
Invading Tibet wasn't a move to "free" the people of Tibet, it was a move to seize the territory during a time of political instability.
Absolutely correct. The Chinese government just wanted to use the turmoil to expand its borders to match those of the various Chinese empires.
That said, the government of Tibet at the time of the conquest was absolutely horrific. Reading about that government and the Chinese treatment of the people afterwards, I am left with the sense that I would be unable to choose between which group I wanted to rule over me.
I am still haunted by the sound of the word "nukular" and "misunderestimated." Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Torture? Wiretapping? That's nothing compared to the brutality he exhibited upon the English language.
In some states, such as the one where I reside now, write in votes are tossed out. The exceptions are the write in candidates who are officially sanctioned, but didn't end up on the ballot for some reason or other. This is likely due to the nature of the electoral college, where (in every state, IIRC) you vote not for the candidates themselves, but for a slate of electors that has pledged to cast electoral votes for that candidate. As the write-ins do not have a slate of electors, they are unfortunately thrown out. At least that is how I understand it.
Blizzard is more than the WoW MMOG crack market that is their most recent creation... Starcraft, Diablo, Warcraft etc...
True enough, but those other franchises haven't had games released in years. I'm looking forward to that changing. Oh Diablo III, you can't get released soon enough.
This is not a "right" to anything. These people need to look up the definition and history of what a "right" is.
It entirely depends on what sort of philosophy you happen to believe in. Religious people can claim that they have rights, and that they are derived from the existence of their god(s). Others have attempted to create systems of rights that are entirely objective, independent of any deity or supernatural forces. Debates on this have been raging for millenia between all sorts of greater and lesser philosophers. Immanuel Kant, for example, claimed to derive natural rights from reason alone. Legalistic individuals could also say our rights are exactly what the laws say they are.
The U.S. sold anthrax and bubonic plague to Iraq 123. It may not be nerve gas itself, but there is plenty of evidence the U.S. supplied Saddam with WMD.
The U.S. federal government similarly demands that you pay it taxes, whether or not you live inside the U.S. or not. Been living overseas for 20 years? Uncle Sam still wants his cut. See the IRS:
They even claim the right to tax those who renounce U.S. citizenship for "tax purposes." This is defined at having an income of over about $140 k per year for five years, or having a worldwide net worth of $2 million. They make the assumption that you are guilty of leaving to evade taxes if you meet those conditions. They then claim the right to tax you for an additional 10 years, IIRC. You not only get no representation, but you get nothing else, since renouncing U.S. citizenship can only be done in a U.S. consulate or embassy -- and those are only found overseas.
The invasion of Russia was, from a purely military standpoint, completely idiotic, and the German General Staff knew it, but Hitler's hatred of Communists and Slavs, even ones that he had signed a nice little pact that Stalin seemed contented with, drove him to one of the greatest military blunders in history.
Part of the reason that the invasion of the Soviet Union was a failure was because of the U.S.'s lend-lease program. Even though the US did not send troops to the Eastern Front, it sent a huge amount of equipment and supplies. Up to 70% of all logistics trucks in the Soviet military were, IIRC, American built. We sent them some tanks (though these were much inferior to the Soviet and German models), aircraft, metal, food, and other resources. Without these and other supplies Stalin would have had a much harder time repulsing the German invasion. He might not have had the power to invade Eastern Europe.
the Russians did more to save Western Europe from Nazism than anyone else.
Interesting thought, that. The initial justification for the war between the Allies (France and Great Britain, initially) and Germany was the NAZI invasion of Poland. Oddly enough, the Western Allies were totally content to allow Stalin to conquer Eastern Europe and directly annex territory from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Germany, and Romania. They were also allowed to totally annex Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. And then, in the territories they did not annex, they were allowed to install puppet regimes (such as the unannexed portions of Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, East Germany, Czechoslovakia). So, if Stalin's army did, in fact, do more to save Western Europe than the Western Allies, it came at the cost of almost all of Eastern Europe.
It's not the machine rebooting that I'm worried about; I can do that remotely, and it works. I've never had to have it power cycled manually. However, dist-upgrades can sometimes cause other issues that are not present when doing a clean install. One of my classmates, for example, had his sound stop working after upgrading from 9.04 to 9.10. He had no trouble from a clean install of 9.10; the sound worked out of the box. Also, going from 8.04 to the next LTS wouldn't allow me to take advantage of ext4.
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I don't know why, and my handwriting is so atrocious
I haven't even been alive for 25 years, and my handwriting, I can guarantee, is worse than yours. At least you may have had a time where you wrote by hand extensively; I never did.
Sure I do, in this case, it's taking valuable things from the productive people and distributing it to the undeserving -- some kind of forced, involuntary charity.
You have a differing understanding of the common definition of involuntary and forced. No one has taken a gun to the head of the inventor and said, "You must give away your invention for free." On the contrary, they have demanded that the inventor stop using the guns of the government to enforce his "earned" monopoly. To enforce the IP version of property rights requires the violation of the regular property rights of all others.
Hardly. 'English', 'Scottish', and even 'Irish' people are all really Welsh; they're just too embarrassed to admit it. Something about the silly place names...
And those poor Welsh souls are really wannabe Cornish!
It doesn't support it on my laptop either. It does boot up quickly. And it does boot up, it scrolls very very slowly. Even on my desktop, with a quadcore processor, it is very slow. I suppose that that may be due to video drivers.
I've been using it, and it suites my needs just fine. I haven't had much trouble out of it.
Peripheral damages are certainly a viable reason for prohibition.
I demand that you stop driving; it can kill people. I wonder how many more people are killed by cars than drugs? Cars kill ~40000 in the US. Drugs kill ~17000. Poor diet killed ~365000.
"Actual Causes of Death in the United States, 2000," Journal of the American Medical Association, March 10, 2004, Vol. 291, No. 10, pp. 1238, 1241.
Consumer protection, environmental, and public health initiatives all contain fine examples of that.
You will note that those programs are far from unopposed. The health issue in particular attracts a huge amount of debate.
Crap! Here should be hear. *sigh*
But I personally haven't heard of major criminal enterprises based on numbers running or football betting causing too much trouble in the united states.
The first is due to governments taking over that industry; ever here of the lottery? Many states have them.
As for sports: http://www.ur.umich.edu/9899/Nov02_98/12.htm This mentions it also: http://www.ncaa.org/wps/ncaa?key=/ncaa/ncaa/media+and+events/press+room/current+issues/sports+wagering
The United States saved Europe's ass during dubya dubya 2.
Tell that to Russia. But even if true, it does little to justify the invasion of privacy.
What responsibility ? We never had any say in the European Constitution/Lisbon treaty It's not fair to make us responsible for things we never voted for.
Well you didn't rise up in revolt, therefore you accept it \Sarcasm
Really? I don't see anyone claiming that it should be called Linux/Chrome...
I demand that you call it GNU\Linux\Chrome!
what else do you think would make the concentration of carbon dioxide increase from about 285 ppm to about 385 ppm in just over 100 years?
I vote for legislatures releasing CO2.
Finally! Now I can tell my friends that my iPhone can run all the stuff my desktop can!
Invading Tibet wasn't a move to "free" the people of Tibet, it was a move to seize the territory during a time of political instability.
Absolutely correct. The Chinese government just wanted to use the turmoil to expand its borders to match those of the various Chinese empires.
That said, the government of Tibet at the time of the conquest was absolutely horrific. Reading about that government and the Chinese treatment of the people afterwards, I am left with the sense that I would be unable to choose between which group I wanted to rule over me.
I am still haunted by the sound of the word "nukular" and "misunderestimated." Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Torture? Wiretapping? That's nothing compared to the brutality he exhibited upon the English language.
In some states, such as the one where I reside now, write in votes are tossed out. The exceptions are the write in candidates who are officially sanctioned, but didn't end up on the ballot for some reason or other. This is likely due to the nature of the electoral college, where (in every state, IIRC) you vote not for the candidates themselves, but for a slate of electors that has pledged to cast electoral votes for that candidate. As the write-ins do not have a slate of electors, they are unfortunately thrown out. At least that is how I understand it.
Blizzard is more than the WoW MMOG crack market that is their most recent creation... Starcraft, Diablo, Warcraft etc...
True enough, but those other franchises haven't had games released in years. I'm looking forward to that changing. Oh Diablo III, you can't get released soon enough.
This is not a "right" to anything. These people need to look up the definition and history of what a "right" is.
It entirely depends on what sort of philosophy you happen to believe in. Religious people can claim that they have rights, and that they are derived from the existence of their god(s). Others have attempted to create systems of rights that are entirely objective, independent of any deity or supernatural forces. Debates on this have been raging for millenia between all sorts of greater and lesser philosophers. Immanuel Kant, for example, claimed to derive natural rights from reason alone. Legalistic individuals could also say our rights are exactly what the laws say they are.
The U.S. sold anthrax and bubonic plague to Iraq 1 2 3. It may not be nerve gas itself, but there is plenty of evidence the U.S. supplied Saddam with WMD.
They even claim the right to tax those who renounce U.S. citizenship for "tax purposes." This is defined at having an income of over about $140 k per year for five years, or having a worldwide net worth of $2 million. They make the assumption that you are guilty of leaving to evade taxes if you meet those conditions. They then claim the right to tax you for an additional 10 years, IIRC. You not only get no representation, but you get nothing else, since renouncing U.S. citizenship can only be done in a U.S. consulate or embassy -- and those are only found overseas.
Who modded this troll?
Iraq: Former Soviet Ally
A former American ally that received weapons of mass destruction from the United States. Ah, the sweet smell of nerve gas in the morning.
Nazi Germany: Former Soviet Ally
Soviet Union: Former US Ally.
The invasion of Russia was, from a purely military standpoint, completely idiotic, and the German General Staff knew it, but Hitler's hatred of Communists and Slavs, even ones that he had signed a nice little pact that Stalin seemed contented with, drove him to one of the greatest military blunders in history.
Part of the reason that the invasion of the Soviet Union was a failure was because of the U.S.'s lend-lease program. Even though the US did not send troops to the Eastern Front, it sent a huge amount of equipment and supplies. Up to 70% of all logistics trucks in the Soviet military were, IIRC, American built. We sent them some tanks (though these were much inferior to the Soviet and German models), aircraft, metal, food, and other resources. Without these and other supplies Stalin would have had a much harder time repulsing the German invasion. He might not have had the power to invade Eastern Europe.
the Russians did more to save Western Europe from Nazism than anyone else.
Interesting thought, that. The initial justification for the war between the Allies (France and Great Britain, initially) and Germany was the NAZI invasion of Poland. Oddly enough, the Western Allies were totally content to allow Stalin to conquer Eastern Europe and directly annex territory from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Germany, and Romania. They were also allowed to totally annex Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. And then, in the territories they did not annex, they were allowed to install puppet regimes (such as the unannexed portions of Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, East Germany, Czechoslovakia). So, if Stalin's army did, in fact, do more to save Western Europe than the Western Allies, it came at the cost of almost all of Eastern Europe.
It's not the machine rebooting that I'm worried about; I can do that remotely, and it works. I've never had to have it power cycled manually. However, dist-upgrades can sometimes cause other issues that are not present when doing a clean install. One of my classmates, for example, had his sound stop working after upgrading from 9.04 to 9.10. He had no trouble from a clean install of 9.10; the sound worked out of the box. Also, going from 8.04 to the next LTS wouldn't allow me to take advantage of ext4.