But seriously... who or what do people think Bush is working for and what evidence do they actually have?
Who or what? I think it's a fair bet that it's not the People.
Evidence? "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!", while perhaps not the synopsis some may want, does comes to mind as a revealing statement made by the man in question.
However I doubt dolphins will be officially recognised as people any time soon, for any number of reasons (legal, religious, diet, greed, etc). It's hard enough convincing some folks that all humans are people (rather than slaves/menials/tools/fodder), let alone an entirely different one.
If you wait outside their offices, you might even be able to say "Hi" to them and have a conversation about the case.
Sorry, confronting lawyers I've never met about a case that puts them on the stand is right down there with wiggling my fingers in a bowl full of sharks. Pass.
If she does not believe she is guilty she can take it to court. She was on their phone line with them discussing how to pay it because she knew she was guilty.
How on earth did you get 'insightful' for this? Nowhere in the article is her guilt or innocence admitted or confirmed, so please feel free to share your hidden knowledge or psychic powers.
She was on their phone line because SHE COULDN'T AFFORD TO TAKE IT TO COURT. What part of that INJUSTICE do you do not clue, or are you just being a shill or a troll? These idiots are suing infants and grannies, they don't give a crap about justice or innocence, only how they can exploit the system.
Er, just how long ago did you last look? Services, also known as "stuff that runs whether anybody logs on, off, or neither", have been around since at least Windows NT 4, and exist under every flavour of Windows since (NT4, Win2000, WinXP, Win2003...) both servers and clients. There's other methods too, if you want to play with the registry or group policy.
unlike Gatesware, *nix servers will come back up after a power failure without needing somebody to come around and log in
Why do Gatesware servers need someone to come around and log in after a power failure? Or do you mean need someone to come around and push the 'on' button? That'd be a limitation of specific hardware, not of an OS. What am I missing here?
Have you ever actually tried to run Windows XP as a non-admin user? You can't install any new USB devices, and on about 1/2 of the devices I've tried, you need admin rights to plug them in whether or not the drivers have been previously installed. I tried to set my dad up that way, and after about a day we both agreed it was hopeless. He's got a digital camera, card reader, printer/scanner, and VoIP headset all of which need Admin rights *JUST TO BE PLUGGED IN*. It's not a policy mistake if the "correct" policy prevents the computer from being useful.
You are mistaken, or lying. I regularly plug in USB (and Firewire) devices as a non-Admin user and they work fine.
I too have had the hassle of dealing with USB devices that refuse to run under non-Admin accounts. Just because the devices you've used work, doesn't mean every other device will too. I hereby flunk you in Logic 101; please take the course again.
I simply do not wish to legislate your behavior. I'd rather have the freedom to self-regulate my own. And if I believe that the value of a particular restaurant is higher than the cost of being there with 2nd hand smoke, that's my choice. As it is your choice. I'd rather that we both are given the freedom to choose.
The sadness is that smoking is addictive. How can there be self-regulation when smoking takes away self-control?
(Cue the 'you can go to a different restaurant argument' in 3..2..1...)
Yes. Because it happens to be correct.
The statement "you can go to a different restaurant" has no bearing on whether smokers will be at that restaurant too, let alone any other factors. But you already knew that.
The USA, proud member of the first world, is in the top ten for executions with such exemplary second world nations as Belarus and China.
After fair trials, and years of appeals.
(a) From a certain POV that's even scarier.
(b) It doesn't guarantee innocents won't be - and they have been - executed. (c) "Fair" isn't how I'd describe some of the trials.
It buys you a card that has a chance of playing next year's game at 60 fps too.:)
I am not trolling I am actually curious, can the eye see the difference between a card pumping 90 fps and one that is pumping 110 fps?
While I doubt I could tell the difference (even 60 and 80), there are people who can. It's like how I need glasses to read street signs and others don't. Different levels of optical sensitivity.
Trivia: 20/20 vision is not the best you can have.
My brother's house has an on-demand gas-electric water heater, which he bought sometime last year as I recall; from personal experience it warms up a bit quicker than a tank heater and then provides constant hot water for as long as you like (just don't forget to get the gas cylinder refilled).
Pros: no more "you used up all the hot water!" complaints and the one he bought even has a nice LCD panel for setting the temperature of the water it supplies. Very nice.
Cons: it still needs a little electricity to ignite the gas and run the control circuitry. If the power to your house goes out, no more hot water (though even a tank heater will have the same problem if the power is out long enough).
Just because the law has become to restricted doesn't mean the concept is inherently flawed.
True. Nonetheless it is empirical evidence. And I argue that it is indeed flawed, in much the same way that soviet communism was flawed. It assumes that greed can be arbitrarily rationed or eliminated. That humans not only can be but will be selfless, just because. We can't and we aren't.
Copyright definately needs fixing, as do patents; but don't just throw them out completely.
Those who command business entities of sufficient size are capable of, and actively engaged in, the use of economic leverage to alter the rules under which they operate. The vast leverage offered by the ability to control information ("IP law") should be obvious.
Or more simply: Power corrupts. Information control offers absolute power. If you think nobody's trying for it...
One of the banks I use has a neat solution - they generate and display on the screen a random string of letters above the normal set of numbers, eg.
q u e h b y l s g m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
You type in your PIN using the corresponding letters, which will be different each time and useless to a keylogger. The string is displayed as an image, presumably to thwart text stream sniffing.
Because it *is* a valid comparison in price, just not the only way of doing it. And given the price of CDs over here, I *do* think the Aussie record labels have the same cost structure as their US counterparts - which can basically be summed up as "rip their wallets a new one".
Each new technology (vinyl, tape, CD) has seen the manufacturing cost go down while the retail price goes up. And now along comes iTunes, with no physical medium to manufacture and ship, and the cost per track... actually goes down? ABOUT TIME.
But before we leap for joy, if we average the current top 3 Australian albums, you can get a 12 track CD for $24.95 from a brick store instead of paying iTunes $20.28 (the Sydney Morning Herald says the price is $1.69 a track not $1.80).
So for an extra $4.67 (or 39 cents a track) we get a nicely pressed physical CD, with liner etc, and CD quality music, which we can rip for ourselves at any quality we like. This against 12 lossily compressed files we'd have to buy a CDR for if we wanted to burn our own physical copy.
Judging solely by the impact on the wallet, yes, the price has come down by about 20%. But you can get that kind of discount just by waiting for a crazy sale. Buying music is as much about quality as quantity, and I think the industry is hoping to sucker us again.
Correct. Low level users in Australia, even with broadband, have maybe a 300-500MB data allowance on their accounts. None of those I know with that limit are exceeding it.
Of course, we pay a bloody arm and leg if we go over that "allowance". 15 cents per excess MB adds up REAL FAST when your kids discover music/video streaming let alone file-sharing.:)
The wiser budget users (sadly often due to critical wallet trauma) in Australia avoid Telstra and its mates like the plague, and go with ISPs that cap or throttle instead of charging excess.
Even if "The day after tomorrow" happens, (oh whoops it only destroyed the US.. weird... I'm glad that the climate knows who is creating all the greenhouse gasses, and will selectively destroy only them, maybe I can move to Europe and I'll be ok...)
Er, how much of the movie did you see? The UK got turned into an ice sculpture. From the satellite imagery and the space views, most of the Northern hemisphere was under snow and the Southern hemisphere wasn't looking so hot either.
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So snow and ice covers around 6% of the planet overall and would have to be on average 116 metres thick (assuming 100% compaction, which it isn't becuase ice is full of air) to achieve a 10 metre sea level rise - does that sound right to you?...
Roughly half of the ice on the planet is on land, heavily compacted, and over two kilometres thick.
I agree, government is a business. The problem is that the government can also tax people for services that they don't use.
Companies do the same thing. They sell stuff with feature set Y at price X, even though the average person might only use three quarters of the feature set (or much less).
Admittedly it's harder to switch governments than companies, but that gap is narrowing and it's already awfully thin...
The gov can undercut private businesses' prices by reducing their sticker price, but taxing the public to recoop losses. That is unfair practices.
Seems to me that's a common and long-established tactic of any business with multiple lines. Lower prices in one area, raise prices in another, take a greater profit overall.
My yardstick to judge by is, "if the rules aren't fair, are they at least equally unfair?" Seems to me Verizon is making the rules more unfair to local government than to itself.
The government should not be in the business of providing non-essential services. Government-run businesses do not have to make a profit, and actually don't even have to break even. Private companies on the other hand, have to make a profit to survive. It would be unfair competition.
Really? Why would it be unfair? Unfair to who? Non-essential to whom? What's non-essential? Why must a non-essential service be run at a profit?
Government *is* a business. Only the nameplates are different. If it can provide a service in such a way that it's a better deal for the community...
Now, what's unfair is when a business (Verizon) can get the government (state) to enact law that prevents other businesses (local govts) from competing with it. Open marketplace my shiny metal LAN port.
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I get "server not found" on that link. http://coppersblog.blogspot.com/ seems to work though.
Evidence? "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!", while perhaps not the synopsis some may want, does comes to mind as a revealing statement made by the man in question.
2006: Dolphins have their own names 2005: Dolphin Moms Teach Daughters to Use Tools
However I doubt dolphins will be officially recognised as people any time soon, for any number of reasons (legal, religious, diet, greed, etc). It's hard enough convincing some folks that all humans are people (rather than slaves/menials/tools/fodder), let alone an entirely different one.
How on earth did you get 'insightful' for this? Nowhere in the article is her guilt or innocence admitted or confirmed, so please feel free to share your hidden knowledge or psychic powers.
She was on their phone line because SHE COULDN'T AFFORD TO TAKE IT TO COURT. What part of that INJUSTICE do you do not clue, or are you just being a shill or a troll? These idiots are suing infants and grannies, they don't give a crap about justice or innocence, only how they can exploit the system.
(throws soapbox and walks off fuming)
Er, just how long ago did you last look? Services, also known as "stuff that runs whether anybody logs on, off, or neither", have been around since at least Windows NT 4, and exist under every flavour of Windows since (NT4, Win2000, WinXP, Win2003...) both servers and clients. There's other methods too, if you want to play with the registry or group policy.
Heh. Hoist with my own petard, that'll learn me. :)
(b) It doesn't guarantee innocents won't be - and they have been - executed.
(c) "Fair" isn't how I'd describe some of the trials.
My brother's house has an on-demand gas-electric water heater, which he bought sometime last year as I recall; from personal experience it warms up a bit quicker than a tank heater and then provides constant hot water for as long as you like (just don't forget to get the gas cylinder refilled). Pros: no more "you used up all the hot water!" complaints and the one he bought even has a nice LCD panel for setting the temperature of the water it supplies. Very nice. Cons: it still needs a little electricity to ignite the gas and run the control circuitry. If the power to your house goes out, no more hot water (though even a tank heater will have the same problem if the power is out long enough).
Or more simply: Power corrupts. Information control offers absolute power. If you think nobody's trying for it...
q u e h b y l s g m
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
You type in your PIN using the corresponding letters, which will be different each time and useless to a keylogger. The string is displayed as an image, presumably to thwart text stream sniffing.
Each new technology (vinyl, tape, CD) has seen the manufacturing cost go down while the retail price goes up. And now along comes iTunes, with no physical medium to manufacture and ship, and the cost per track... actually goes down? ABOUT TIME.
But before we leap for joy, if we average the current top 3 Australian albums, you can get a 12 track CD for $24.95 from a brick store instead of paying iTunes $20.28 (the Sydney Morning Herald says the price is $1.69 a track not $1.80).
So for an extra $4.67 (or 39 cents a track) we get a nicely pressed physical CD, with liner etc, and CD quality music, which we can rip for ourselves at any quality we like. This against 12 lossily compressed files we'd have to buy a CDR for if we wanted to burn our own physical copy.
Judging solely by the impact on the wallet, yes, the price has come down by about 20%. But you can get that kind of discount just by waiting for a crazy sale. Buying music is as much about quality as quantity, and I think the industry is hoping to sucker us again.
The wiser budget users (sadly often due to critical wallet trauma) in Australia avoid Telstra and its mates like the plague, and go with ISPs that cap or throttle instead of charging excess.
Roughly half of the ice on the planet is on land, heavily compacted, and over two kilometres thick.
Antarctica is BIG.
How much? Pulling random figures out of the air, if it's 10% and he cuts direct downloads by 15%, then he's ahead...
Admittedly it's harder to switch governments than companies, but that gap is narrowing and it's already awfully thin...
Seems to me that's a common and long-established tactic of any business with multiple lines. Lower prices in one area, raise prices in another, take a greater profit overall.My yardstick to judge by is, "if the rules aren't fair, are they at least equally unfair?" Seems to me Verizon is making the rules more unfair to local government than to itself.
Government *is* a business. Only the nameplates are different. If it can provide a service in such a way that it's a better deal for the community...
Now, what's unfair is when a business (Verizon) can get the government (state) to enact law that prevents other businesses (local govts) from competing with it. Open marketplace my shiny metal LAN port.