Probably not what GP meant, but for the purposes of what is and is not allowed w/o a warrant, my bank can be considered an "online private space". If the feds are eavesdropping in on my online banking transactions, then they had damn well better have a warrant.
But if the speedlimit is x, and he's going x+y where y is a positive number, then there shouldn't be anyone who wishes to pass him, at least not legally.
No I do not let the speedlimit dictate my speed, but if I'm doing 70 in a 55 zone, and you want to go faster but can't because I'm in front, that's your problem, not mine.
Take it to trial and only one thing matters. "Sir, were you speeding?" "Yes, but..." "You can pay your fine to the clerk on your way out. Next!"
Spoken like someone who's never been in a courtroom for a traffic violation.
Of course, my experience has been rather limited, but there were always 3 ways that you can plead: not guilty, guilty, and guilty with an explanation.
Also, judges tend to take into account your previous driving record for things like a Probation Before Judgment, where basically the ticket is thrown out (though there are still court fees). I've also witnessed a judge mark down a speeding ticket exactly like GP stated, though not for GP's reasons.
Copyright does not protect against disassembly, or simply feeding various combinations of inputs to figure out the algorithm and clone it
Nor should it. Patents protect an end product, not what that product is used for, which is how patents are being used with regard to software.
Imagine what would have happened if Thomas Edison had been allowed to patent "a method for producing light by passing energy through some medium", or Johannes Gutenberg patented "a method of producing multiple identical sheets of text".
Re-read the policy. Notice how they keep mentioning illegal copies. If you bought the physical cartridge, then you would not be making an illegal copy.
Realistically though, I'm sure Nintendo would not like it if I were to buy a Japanese game, copy the ROM, apply an English translation patch, and then play the translated ROM on an Emulator.
I can speak from second-hand experience (my mom is a nurse) that nurses get paid when they are "on call", even if they are never called in. This was back in the 90's though.
Erm, no? Whether you're using a comma or a period as the decimal, one of your values has a three-digit cents place (and to the best of my knowledge the Euro does not have a hundredths piece), so I've no clue what exactly you are saying.
To Americanize the results, it would be debiting a 115.00 transaction as 11500.
Saying that free speech includes the right to talk even when people don't want to talk to you does not mean that free speech includes forcing others to listen to you (which I suspect is what you're actually against).
So spoken communication can't be a language unless it's written. Thus, the native tribes in Alaska had no language until the White Man showed up and put their sounds to the English letters?
I think GP's point was that in the current medium that we are using to communicate, the only thing we have is the words. We do not have any of those sounds or gestures to accompany those words. There are no visual or audible clues to indicate if I am communicating with someone from down south, out west, out in the Alaska bush, or even from another country where we're no longer talking about regional dialect differences but instead possibly people for whom English is not even their first language.
Wait, what? Since when? Games are applications too, and every time some story comes out about drm and games, there are always the obligatory posts which say "fuck that, I'm pirating", "you'd pirate anyway", "I'm just trying an extended demo", etc etc.
Question, could users of jailbroken iPhones refuse to install the update? If so, then another question.
Why is it I always see people berating those who whine about having an unusable computer when they've just dived right in and updated to the latest version of $LINUX_DISTRO without bothering to check if any custom changes may break things (and indeed, even on the Windows side people going "so you just installed Windows and then the Service Pack that just came out yesterday and are wondering why your computer isn't usable? Idiot, you never install a Windows Service Pack right away"), but if someone does it on an iPhone, it's suddenly Apple's fault? Again, ignore this question if the iPhone update happened automatically and without warning on jailbroken iPhones.
You're assuming that either a) those students are paying for their tuition up front, or b) the $400 tax can be added on to their existing student loans.
But if they've deferred their education costs till after graduation, but the $400 is due right away, then yeah, I can see the students possibly caring.
You're right, it's not the government's responsibility, it's the responsibility of the people who live in the area. But it's such a huge area, everyone should all join together and form some kind of a group to make sure stuff like general maintenance happens. And obviously not everyone needs to be involved all the time, so they should come up with a way of choosing a few individuals to watch over things for a set period of time, maybe even a way to rotate different people into those positions. I wonder if anyone's thought of this before...
You CAN lose your job, lose any prospect for meaningful employment
Equal Opportunity Employment laws (I hope) disagree with you. Unfortunately, even if such laws do disagree with you, there's still the whole "as long as we don't say why we're firing or not hiring you, we can do so for whatever reason we wish" which still makes you right.:/
Now, I'm not saying you're wrong (I freely admit I have little-to-no understanding of the Use Tax), but it appears as if Wiki disagrees with you.
For example, a resident of Massachusetts, which has a six and a quarter percent "sales and use tax" on certain goods and services, purchases non-exempt goods or services in New Hampshire for use, storage or other consumption in Massachusetts. Under New Hampshire law, the New Hampshire vendor collects no sales taxes on the goods but the purchaser/user must still pay six and a quarter percent of the sales price directly to the Department of Revenue in Massachusetts as a use tax. If the same goods are purchased in a U.S. state that does collect sales tax for such goods at time of purchase, then whatever taxes were paid by the purchaser to that state can be deducted (as a tax credit) from the six and a quarter percent owed for subsequent use, storage or consumption in Massachusetts.
Actually, I was talking about tax exemption of the COS. If currently they rake in $x, all of it tax exempt, then if their tax exempt status were to go away, they would have to take in $(x+y) from their members in order to net the same $x they previously got.
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Probably not what GP meant, but for the purposes of what is and is not allowed w/o a warrant, my bank can be considered an "online private space". If the feds are eavesdropping in on my online banking transactions, then they had damn well better have a warrant.
But if the speedlimit is x, and he's going x+y where y is a positive number, then there shouldn't be anyone who wishes to pass him, at least not legally.
No I do not let the speedlimit dictate my speed, but if I'm doing 70 in a 55 zone, and you want to go faster but can't because I'm in front, that's your problem, not mine.
Take it to trial and only one thing matters. "Sir, were you speeding?" "Yes, but..." "You can pay your fine to the clerk on your way out. Next!"
Spoken like someone who's never been in a courtroom for a traffic violation.
Of course, my experience has been rather limited, but there were always 3 ways that you can plead: not guilty, guilty, and guilty with an explanation.
Also, judges tend to take into account your previous driving record for things like a Probation Before Judgment, where basically the ticket is thrown out (though there are still court fees). I've also witnessed a judge mark down a speeding ticket exactly like GP stated, though not for GP's reasons.
Copyright does not protect against disassembly, or simply feeding various combinations of inputs to figure out the algorithm and clone it
Nor should it. Patents protect an end product, not what that product is used for, which is how patents are being used with regard to software.
Imagine what would have happened if Thomas Edison had been allowed to patent "a method for producing light by passing energy through some medium", or Johannes Gutenberg patented "a method of producing multiple identical sheets of text".
Re-read the policy. Notice how they keep mentioning illegal copies. If you bought the physical cartridge, then you would not be making an illegal copy.
Realistically though, I'm sure Nintendo would not like it if I were to buy a Japanese game, copy the ROM, apply an English translation patch, and then play the translated ROM on an Emulator.
I can speak from second-hand experience (my mom is a nurse) that nurses get paid when they are "on call", even if they are never called in. This was back in the 90's though.
Did you pay RL money for them?
Actually my first thought was of Duff Killigan.
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200601.txt
I can't find it. Even presuming a different translation, I'm not seeing anything close to GP's quote.
Erm, no? Whether you're using a comma or a period as the decimal, one of your values has a three-digit cents place (and to the best of my knowledge the Euro does not have a hundredths piece), so I've no clue what exactly you are saying.
To Americanize the results, it would be debiting a 115.00 transaction as 11500.
Except that across the pond they don't use a comma as a kilo separator, but instead use it as a decimal separator.
Saying that free speech includes the right to talk even when people don't want to talk to you does not mean that free speech includes forcing others to listen to you (which I suspect is what you're actually against).
it was the entire group 'Anonymous'.
That's like saying all Muslims are terrorists based on the actions of a few who claim to be Muslim.
but that didn't change our conviction that the accused had committed the crime so we had to return a guilty verdict.
Not necessarily.
Problem is that since Scientology is not registered as a religion in my country
Wow! You're from USA?
Given the news about the CoS in other countries, I was under the impression that the USA was one of few places it still is considered a religion.
Or were you trying to make a joke?
So spoken communication can't be a language unless it's written. Thus, the native tribes in Alaska had no language until the White Man showed up and put their sounds to the English letters?
I think GP's point was that in the current medium that we are using to communicate, the only thing we have is the words. We do not have any of those sounds or gestures to accompany those words. There are no visual or audible clues to indicate if I am communicating with someone from down south, out west, out in the Alaska bush, or even from another country where we're no longer talking about regional dialect differences but instead possibly people for whom English is not even their first language.
We don't pirate applications
Wait, what? Since when? Games are applications too, and every time some story comes out about drm and games, there are always the obligatory posts which say "fuck that, I'm pirating", "you'd pirate anyway", "I'm just trying an extended demo", etc etc.
Question, could users of jailbroken iPhones refuse to install the update? If so, then another question.
Why is it I always see people berating those who whine about having an unusable computer when they've just dived right in and updated to the latest version of $LINUX_DISTRO without bothering to check if any custom changes may break things (and indeed, even on the Windows side people going "so you just installed Windows and then the Service Pack that just came out yesterday and are wondering why your computer isn't usable? Idiot, you never install a Windows Service Pack right away"), but if someone does it on an iPhone, it's suddenly Apple's fault? Again, ignore this question if the iPhone update happened automatically and without warning on jailbroken iPhones.
You're assuming that either a) those students are paying for their tuition up front, or b) the $400 tax can be added on to their existing student loans.
But if they've deferred their education costs till after graduation, but the $400 is due right away, then yeah, I can see the students possibly caring.
You're right, it's not the government's responsibility, it's the responsibility of the people who live in the area. But it's such a huge area, everyone should all join together and form some kind of a group to make sure stuff like general maintenance happens. And obviously not everyone needs to be involved all the time, so they should come up with a way of choosing a few individuals to watch over things for a set period of time, maybe even a way to rotate different people into those positions. I wonder if anyone's thought of this before...
You CAN lose your job, lose any prospect for meaningful employment
Equal Opportunity Employment laws (I hope) disagree with you. Unfortunately, even if such laws do disagree with you, there's still the whole "as long as we don't say why we're firing or not hiring you, we can do so for whatever reason we wish" which still makes you right. :/
For example, a resident of Massachusetts, which has a six and a quarter percent "sales and use tax" on certain goods and services, purchases non-exempt goods or services in New Hampshire for use, storage or other consumption in Massachusetts. Under New Hampshire law, the New Hampshire vendor collects no sales taxes on the goods but the purchaser/user must still pay six and a quarter percent of the sales price directly to the Department of Revenue in Massachusetts as a use tax. If the same goods are purchased in a U.S. state that does collect sales tax for such goods at time of purchase, then whatever taxes were paid by the purchaser to that state can be deducted (as a tax credit) from the six and a quarter percent owed for subsequent use, storage or consumption in Massachusetts.
Actually, I was talking about tax exemption of the COS. If currently they rake in $x, all of it tax exempt, then if their tax exempt status were to go away, they would have to take in $(x+y) from their members in order to net the same $x they previously got.
While that is certainly true, you forgot to mention that everyone who isn't lacking religion is also either dead or will shortly die.
"If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!"
But.. it.. it.. but... *head asplodes*