A 401(k) is not a pension fund. It is an individual retirement account. A pension fund is money that is owned by the company that will be paid out to you at retirment. the 401 (k) is a tax defered investment account. There is no raiding of the fund going on, the fund IS stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. Thus to many Americans the economy matters. Yes, there are times when individuals suffer, that happens under any system, but it happens less in a system where there is 5% unemployement than in one with 10% unemployment. One has 2 times as much dead weight slowing it down, and more people supporting that dead weight, by whatever means, be it charity, government programs, or whatever.
Well, where I come from if it's 5 acres we call that the "back yard" and it's ok to have someone else fix your fence. But if you have a FARM you'd best know how to do it yourself. And yes, I have honked cattle back in before. And goats, and sheep, and even the occational dog. But the fact that the animals get out, or deer get in, or foxes, or coyotes, or feral dogs... that's why if you are going to farm, you'd best learn how to handle at least one fencing technology.
The friend of your friend who can't fix a fence. If he owns a farm, and owns the fence, and he doesn't know how to repair it, then yes, he is stupid. If he lacks the hands or tools to fix it, he may not be. Some types of fence are harder to repair than others. For example chain link requires taking down, repairing, and restreching. picket type fences require a lot of hammering. Chicken wire and 4x4 wire both are simply patched. One of the consierations when putting up a fence is "Do I know how to put up this type of fence, and repair it if I need to." Just like if you're writing a program, when you decide what language to use you think "Can I maintain this if I need to"
Economic growth is how unemployment gets lower, which means more jobs, which means a better chance for me to get a job, or to move to a better job. That means better pay for me, and more beer, pizza, and better clothes. It means I can afford to put gassoline into my car, and have money left over for shiny toys. That is why Americans are all so focused on the economy. The better the economy is doing the better EVERYONE does. A rising tide lifts all ships. As far as the stock market goes, many Americans have a 401k or other investments as their retirment plan. When the stock market does well, it means that they will have a more comfortable retirment. If the stock market does poorly, that means a less comfortable retirment. Social security is a joke as far as the payout goes. Our education system is getting worse and worse, but it's not because of how much money goes into it, but rather because of idiodic policies like "No child left behind" Honestly, we'd be better off leaving some behind, and working on making excelence be rewarded. As far as healthcare goes, the biggest problem is paying for care once people get it, not getting it in the first place. People may not seek care because they can't afford it, but hospitals and doctors will provide it regardless of ability to repay, and the laws are written so that any effort to repay medical bills is acceptable. This does raise the costs somewhat because of writeoffs. Just because some people don't like our system doesn't mean its inherently broken.
A few things you're leaving out. 1. European slave traders didn't raid anywhere. All the enslavement and selling was done by other Africans, who mostly sold the slaves to Arabs, who sold them to the Europeans. So really all the Europeans did was give gold for a resource that was already being exploited. 2. Egypt was the worlds most powerful military force before rome came along, and was considered one of the most important provices of the eastern roman empire until the Arabs and Turks took over for them. 3. The library at Alexandria GREW under Roman and Eastern Roman rule for most of history. There were a few exceptions. Also, it was lost because of an earthquake, not because of book burning.
The doctor is advocating nicotine therapy with other delivery mechanisms. I.E. extracting the nicotine from tobacco and delivering it in a controlled manner, such as a patch or some other means, as is currently used for weaning people off cigarettes. The article says that "Oh, evil nicotine, we can't let that be the treatment." The author is talking out of both sides of his mouth.
This isn't a Mac fag story. You don't get points for calling Mac users geeks. You just get laughed at. Sorry about that. Only the Nazi goose stepping allegedly freethinking, yet somewhow all the same poseurs use Macs.
A: I know my shit, and I can reguritate it to match what the proff wants. B: I know my shit, or I can reguritate meaningless to match what the proff wants. C: average D: I need to retake this class. F: I KAN SPEL
Um, no you missed the point of what I said. I was rebuffing the comment about most poster stores selling the posters. Of course they sell the posters, as they have expenseses themselves, but the value of a single poster is still nearly negligable compared to that of the original. This is independant of copyright, as a painting cannot be fully duplicated on a poster. One is a hand-crafted slightly 3 dimentional peice, and the other is a machine created reproduction. They have a diffrent look, they have diffrent production costs, they are made from diffrent materials. Nobody will mistake the poster for the original. As an artist, with current copyright laws you get a royalty on each poster sold that copies your art, and given the volume of those sold compared to the originals, it may be a significant part of your income, but that is a seperate matter I didn't address in my post. The difference in the cost/value of the two is inherent.
Well, generally a Piccasso would be worth millions, and a poster worth, about $10, so relativly speaking, yeah, a Piccasso has value, and the poster, pretty much the value of the materials it's printed on, and a reasonable amount of profit.
Well, if he didn't sell anything, or otherwise distribute anything to anyone then there can be no harm to the patent holder. That means that it is not worth their wile for them to sue him.
Ok, so in response to a post about Ubuntu, which IS trivial to install, you bring out Linux From Scratch, which, admitedly is not. Because it is intended to be quite configurable, by people who know what they are doing, who are experts with Unix and Linux, and who want something that gives them maximal configurability. Talk about a canard. The vast majority of Linux distros are trivial to install or reinstall, and you have to go looking for ones that are not.
If all images on Wikipedia are required to have the same licence (CC Attribution) then you already know what the licence is on the photograph, and can easily comply with it. If you remove the certainty of what the licence of the photographs is, then you create a situation where each individual photograph requires seperate investigation of licence.
For those who are disabled, they go onto our government healthcare system, Medicare. For those who can't afford it for other reasons, either they receive less care, or they receive care and make credit arangements with their provider to pay off over time. Or, they go to charities to request aid, especially in the case of catastrophic care such as for cancer. On the other hand, Medicare is a pain to work with, and nobdy really wants to hold their hand out for donations. To be honest, the Healthcare system in the US works pretty well, the vast majority of the time.
Latin gramar is based on suffixes, not position. 2009 AD translates to English as "in the year of our lord 2009" because in English grammar position does matter, and that perserves the gramatical meaning of the phrase.
Was settling cheaper than going to court? If not, you would have had a perfect "innocent third party" defense. You would still have to pay for additonal use, but if you were sold the image as "royalty free" clip art, then you weren't the infringer, the company that sold you the image wrongfully represented was.
ECT is not the "Tool of Choice" to treat anything. It's a very efective too, but it's also the tool of last resort. It is unknown why the seizures correct mental health disorders, only that they do. The fact that there are very bad side effects mean that it is not used except where other treatments have already failed.
The GPL is not a EULA. The GPL is a disclaimer of waranty, and a distribution licence. So long as copyright law exists the GPL is a reasonable licence for those who think code should be treated the way the GPL treats code. Also, you're assuming groupthink, where in fact there isn't so much. So long as the code is under the GPL, and copyright exists, companies have to play by the rules. If copyright is destroyed, then the rules no longer need to be played by. These companies are never going to have copyright struck down though, because it is how they make their money.
It can be, if you live there, or do business there. If not, then well, it doesn't matter to you, and since it's nicely contained on that newspaper's website, you don't have to follow it. Thank you for completly missing the point. I'm sure the poster apreciates being trolled by an AC who most likely lives nowhere near him about his local news.
Not at all. If the audaince gets it, it's art. If the audiance doesn't get it, it's not art. No matter how much the elites want you to think it is. As Robert Heinlein said, a government sposonred artist is an incompotent whore. Art is about transmitting an experiance or emotion to the audiance. If you wish to create art that only transmits to a small audaince, you are welcome to, but that doesn't make it any MORE artistic. But that wasn't my point in the first place. My point was that denigrating something as "mere" entertainment is frankly, idiotic when determining artistic value. If it is entertaining, it by defninition transmits some meaning to the audiance, that of enjoyment.
Because the leftists know that they are commie fascist bastards, and that the only way to forward their agenda is with the big lie. They have conviced everyone that it is the other side of the aisle that are fascists. This rule of those who fail at life will destroy our econonmy and our contry, but that is the point of it. Unfortunatly the Republicans have been complacent in this, and instead of acting respoably when they had the presidency and both houses, they decided to go wild on spending. Admittedly we were in the middle of a war, but the spending went well beyond reasonable spending for national power. I'd say that the only solution is for those whom Obama betrayed, those stupid enough to buy his "change change change" mantra, without looking at what he wanted to change, should vote the bum out come the next election. The only solution to our economic woes is to take the damned medicine, and then rebuild when we're done. Let the econonmy colapse as far as it will, and then move forward.
Mere entertainment. That's what I hate about fucking art fags. Art is supposed to convey something to the audiance. What is conveyed depends on the particular peice of art. There is nothing mere about entertainment except in those who have lost sight of what art is supposed to do. Happiness, interest, and devotion are all emotions, and yet they get the short end of the stick when any coversation about art comes up. Art is supposed to bring meaning and emotion to the audiance. That is at once a simple, and profound explaination of what art does and what art is. Do video games convey meaning and emotion to the audiance, yes. Therefore they are art. Just the same as a comemerative chess set is art. Is it a new art form, that is barely explored for its "artistic value" probably, but just because it's new, and not used fully doesn't make it any less art, any more than that the cave paintings at Lascaux are any less art because they were done at the dawn of humanity, or because humans are not realisticly drawn in them.
First thing I thought of too. That, and almost all servers already log connections by IP address. I mean, I look at/var/log/secure and what I see is a list of IP addresses that have connected to my machine, with what they have been trying to do. Someone didn't have their thinking caps on when they wrote this law.
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A 401(k) is not a pension fund. It is an individual retirement account. A pension fund is money that is owned by the company that will be paid out to you at retirment. the 401 (k) is a tax defered investment account. There is no raiding of the fund going on, the fund IS stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. Thus to many Americans the economy matters. Yes, there are times when individuals suffer, that happens under any system, but it happens less in a system where there is 5% unemployement than in one with 10% unemployment. One has 2 times as much dead weight slowing it down, and more people supporting that dead weight, by whatever means, be it charity, government programs, or whatever.
Well, where I come from if it's 5 acres we call that the "back yard" and it's ok to have someone else fix your fence. But if you have a FARM you'd best know how to do it yourself. And yes, I have honked cattle back in before. And goats, and sheep, and even the occational dog. But the fact that the animals get out, or deer get in, or foxes, or coyotes, or feral dogs... that's why if you are going to farm, you'd best learn how to handle at least one fencing technology.
The friend of your friend who can't fix a fence. If he owns a farm, and owns the fence, and he doesn't know how to repair it, then yes, he is stupid. If he lacks the hands or tools to fix it, he may not be. Some types of fence are harder to repair than others. For example chain link requires taking down, repairing, and restreching. picket type fences require a lot of hammering. Chicken wire and 4x4 wire both are simply patched. One of the consierations when putting up a fence is "Do I know how to put up this type of fence, and repair it if I need to." Just like if you're writing a program, when you decide what language to use you think "Can I maintain this if I need to"
Economic growth is how unemployment gets lower, which means more jobs, which means a better chance for me to get a job, or to move to a better job. That means better pay for me, and more beer, pizza, and better clothes. It means I can afford to put gassoline into my car, and have money left over for shiny toys. That is why Americans are all so focused on the economy. The better the economy is doing the better EVERYONE does. A rising tide lifts all ships. As far as the stock market goes, many Americans have a 401k or other investments as their retirment plan. When the stock market does well, it means that they will have a more comfortable retirment. If the stock market does poorly, that means a less comfortable retirment. Social security is a joke as far as the payout goes. Our education system is getting worse and worse, but it's not because of how much money goes into it, but rather because of idiodic policies like "No child left behind" Honestly, we'd be better off leaving some behind, and working on making excelence be rewarded. As far as healthcare goes, the biggest problem is paying for care once people get it, not getting it in the first place. People may not seek care because they can't afford it, but hospitals and doctors will provide it regardless of ability to repay, and the laws are written so that any effort to repay medical bills is acceptable. This does raise the costs somewhat because of writeoffs. Just because some people don't like our system doesn't mean its inherently broken.
A few things you're leaving out. 1. European slave traders didn't raid anywhere. All the enslavement and selling was done by other Africans, who mostly sold the slaves to Arabs, who sold them to the Europeans. So really all the Europeans did was give gold for a resource that was already being exploited. 2. Egypt was the worlds most powerful military force before rome came along, and was considered one of the most important provices of the eastern roman empire until the Arabs and Turks took over for them. 3. The library at Alexandria GREW under Roman and Eastern Roman rule for most of history. There were a few exceptions. Also, it was lost because of an earthquake, not because of book burning.
The doctor is advocating nicotine therapy with other delivery mechanisms. I.E. extracting the nicotine from tobacco and delivering it in a controlled manner, such as a patch or some other means, as is currently used for weaning people off cigarettes. The article says that "Oh, evil nicotine, we can't let that be the treatment." The author is talking out of both sides of his mouth.
This isn't a Mac fag story. You don't get points for calling Mac users geeks. You just get laughed at. Sorry about that. Only the Nazi goose stepping allegedly freethinking, yet somewhow all the same poseurs use Macs.
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A: I know my shit, and I can reguritate it to match what the proff wants.
B: I know my shit, or I can reguritate meaningless to match what the proff wants.
C: average
D: I need to retake this class.
F: I KAN SPEL
Um, no you missed the point of what I said. I was rebuffing the comment about most poster stores selling the posters. Of course they sell the posters, as they have expenseses themselves, but the value of a single poster is still nearly negligable compared to that of the original. This is independant of copyright, as a painting cannot be fully duplicated on a poster. One is a hand-crafted slightly 3 dimentional peice, and the other is a machine created reproduction. They have a diffrent look, they have diffrent production costs, they are made from diffrent materials. Nobody will mistake the poster for the original. As an artist, with current copyright laws you get a royalty on each poster sold that copies your art, and given the volume of those sold compared to the originals, it may be a significant part of your income, but that is a seperate matter I didn't address in my post. The difference in the cost/value of the two is inherent.
Well, generally a Piccasso would be worth millions, and a poster worth, about $10, so relativly speaking, yeah, a Piccasso has value, and the poster, pretty much the value of the materials it's printed on, and a reasonable amount of profit.
Well, if he didn't sell anything, or otherwise distribute anything to anyone then there can be no harm to the patent holder. That means that it is not worth their wile for them to sue him.
Joke? It read like a troll to me. And, yeah yeah, I know, don't feed the trolls, but whatever.
Ok, so in response to a post about Ubuntu, which IS trivial to install, you bring out Linux From Scratch, which, admitedly is not. Because it is intended to be quite configurable, by people who know what they are doing, who are experts with Unix and Linux, and who want something that gives them maximal configurability. Talk about a canard. The vast majority of Linux distros are trivial to install or reinstall, and you have to go looking for ones that are not.
Well, as long as the bank they are making isn't one that is getting communised by TARP money.
If all images on Wikipedia are required to have the same licence (CC Attribution) then you already know what the licence is on the photograph, and can easily comply with it. If you remove the certainty of what the licence of the photographs is, then you create a situation where each individual photograph requires seperate investigation of licence.
For those who are disabled, they go onto our government healthcare system, Medicare. For those who can't afford it for other reasons, either they receive less care, or they receive care and make credit arangements with their provider to pay off over time. Or, they go to charities to request aid, especially in the case of catastrophic care such as for cancer. On the other hand, Medicare is a pain to work with, and nobdy really wants to hold their hand out for donations. To be honest, the Healthcare system in the US works pretty well, the vast majority of the time.
Latin gramar is based on suffixes, not position. 2009 AD translates to English as "in the year of our lord 2009" because in English grammar position does matter, and that perserves the gramatical meaning of the phrase.
Was settling cheaper than going to court? If not, you would have had a perfect "innocent third party" defense. You would still have to pay for additonal use, but if you were sold the image as "royalty free" clip art, then you weren't the infringer, the company that sold you the image wrongfully represented was.
ECT is not the "Tool of Choice" to treat anything. It's a very efective too, but it's also the tool of last resort. It is unknown why the seizures correct mental health disorders, only that they do. The fact that there are very bad side effects mean that it is not used except where other treatments have already failed.
The GPL is not a EULA. The GPL is a disclaimer of waranty, and a distribution licence. So long as copyright law exists the GPL is a reasonable licence for those who think code should be treated the way the GPL treats code. Also, you're assuming groupthink, where in fact there isn't so much. So long as the code is under the GPL, and copyright exists, companies have to play by the rules. If copyright is destroyed, then the rules no longer need to be played by. These companies are never going to have copyright struck down though, because it is how they make their money.
It can be, if you live there, or do business there. If not, then well, it doesn't matter to you, and since it's nicely contained on that newspaper's website, you don't have to follow it. Thank you for completly missing the point. I'm sure the poster apreciates being trolled by an AC who most likely lives nowhere near him about his local news.
Not at all. If the audaince gets it, it's art. If the audiance doesn't get it, it's not art. No matter how much the elites want you to think it is. As Robert Heinlein said, a government sposonred artist is an incompotent whore. Art is about transmitting an experiance or emotion to the audiance. If you wish to create art that only transmits to a small audaince, you are welcome to, but that doesn't make it any MORE artistic. But that wasn't my point in the first place. My point was that denigrating something as "mere" entertainment is frankly, idiotic when determining artistic value. If it is entertaining, it by defninition transmits some meaning to the audiance, that of enjoyment.
Because the leftists know that they are commie fascist bastards, and that the only way to forward their agenda is with the big lie. They have conviced everyone that it is the other side of the aisle that are fascists. This rule of those who fail at life will destroy our econonmy and our contry, but that is the point of it. Unfortunatly the Republicans have been complacent in this, and instead of acting respoably when they had the presidency and both houses, they decided to go wild on spending. Admittedly we were in the middle of a war, but the spending went well beyond reasonable spending for national power. I'd say that the only solution is for those whom Obama betrayed, those stupid enough to buy his "change change change" mantra, without looking at what he wanted to change, should vote the bum out come the next election. The only solution to our economic woes is to take the damned medicine, and then rebuild when we're done. Let the econonmy colapse as far as it will, and then move forward.
Mere entertainment. That's what I hate about fucking art fags. Art is supposed to convey something to the audiance. What is conveyed depends on the particular peice of art. There is nothing mere about entertainment except in those who have lost sight of what art is supposed to do. Happiness, interest, and devotion are all emotions, and yet they get the short end of the stick when any coversation about art comes up. Art is supposed to bring meaning and emotion to the audiance. That is at once a simple, and profound explaination of what art does and what art is. Do video games convey meaning and emotion to the audiance, yes. Therefore they are art. Just the same as a comemerative chess set is art. Is it a new art form, that is barely explored for its "artistic value" probably, but just because it's new, and not used fully doesn't make it any less art, any more than that the cave paintings at Lascaux are any less art because they were done at the dawn of humanity, or because humans are not realisticly drawn in them.
First thing I thought of too. That, and almost all servers already log connections by IP address. I mean, I look at /var/log/secure and what I see is a list of IP addresses that have connected to my machine, with what they have been trying to do. Someone didn't have their thinking caps on when they wrote this law.