Out of curiousity, what changes happened in European languages? I know that in English we dropped most of the ligatures (either entirely, or as in some nouns like Caesar and encyclopaedia spelling them as separate letters), but what else?
Surely it's more an issue of, if they throw the book at this 20 year old, the other ten thousand they're suing (many of whom likely can't afford lawyers, or don't want their parents to find out when something goes to court, etc) won't put up a fight?
As a rather poor analogy, if I play keno and win, the casino has no problem giving me ten thousand dollars on my one dollar ticket. They know a million other tickets will lose later on and more than pay them back.
Not really. It's easier to give a few hundred thousand in "campaign financing" to the judge, or if not him, whichever body will appoint his replacement.
He may be talking about the total number of plants growing during the Devonian compared to the amount of oil that was produced when they fossilized, and then working out the gas that was made from that oil. I would guess the figure may include the vast majority of plants that rotted, were consumed in forest fires, or otherwise didn't get into your gas tank.
Ah, thanks. I'm likely going to be single for some time, and I'm going into academia after I get out of grad school so I should have the spare cash to pay a bit more for a car up-front... so it's the sort of car I'd be lookking for. Certainly not good for soccer moms, or people with hobbies that involve moving a lot of stuff around (boating, etc). Also, I already know how to drive a stick (my dad loves them) - so few people in the states do, it amazes me.
As other comments have said, first of all, coal comes from here (we don't need to fight wars to "maintain control" of it), and second of all, it's likely that during the life of your car the sources of electricity will change.
Also, the entire point of plug-in hybrids is that if he does excess the "range" they're quoting, all that will happen is that the gas engine will start, and he'll begin to pay $3/gallon with the rest of us.
I really doubt that's still in effect (especially since, while not a precedent, there's a district court decision elsewhere specifically stating that intelligent design is not scientific, is religious, and can't be taught in the public schools).
Firstly, IANAL. If YAAL, then be ANAL and tell me what I screwed up. Or mod me down blindly, and bill your clients for the time it took to do that. They'll be a lot more upset than I am.
In at least some US states, at least according to Wikipedia, the rule is that a noncompete is valid if it keeps you from engaging in direct competition, and getting an unfair advantage from information learned in the course of employment, in the same geographical area.
I doubt that a restriction of the form "you can't work for anyone but us in computing for 5 years" or "we define our business as, in part, "web design," 'consumer products,' and 'office applications' Any company that does work, in part, in fields along those lines is probably competing with us somehow, so you may not work for them for 5 years" is going to be seen as compatible with public policy anywhere.
Of course, it might be enforcable under the whole unofficial "the party that can spend 4+ orders of magnitude more on lawyers to smack down the other party wins by default" set of laws.
It would burn up, or be significantly slowed, on the way down through the atmosphere - the proposed elevators would weigh in the hundreds of micrograms to milligrams per meter (in other words, the section that might hit your home would be the weight of a few grains of salt).
The whole hitting-at-high-speed scenario might be more plausible on Mars (MUCH thinner atmosphere), not to mention I believe in that novel they had a significantly heavier elevator, but even there I think the author overstated what would be accepted.
Governments license many things. Almost all road construction is done by private companies. I don't see how that makes the issues at stake any different. If the Thai government nationalized (parts of) the drug industry, if anything, I would see that as a slippery slope to communism.
Have you heard of anyone in the US being arrested for connecting to, or downloading from, the site in your sig? I can't imagine that the RIAA can get every ISP to log all their web traffic, but... just wondering if it's relatively safe to do.
So who, with a realistic chance of winning, are we supposed to vote for? Or is the entire country supposed to magically start voting for third parties that can't win at once, so that they start winning?
Saying the big human rights problem with China is their restriction of online gaming is like saying the problem with Bob Jones University is not supporting Linux on the network.
That would be worse than you make it sound though. Many, actually most, of my friends use AIM on Windows. It's quite likely that if gaim had to drop AIM support, some of them would simply give up talking to me, rather than install yet another messenger program specifically to talk to me. That would not, in fact, be pleasant for me.
And no, using another IM program that supports Linux might work for awhile, but I expect AOL would sue them too for something sooner or later. Illegal access to their servers, if nothing else.
Actually, both of them likely have capital gains that far, far outpace income. And as such probably pay a much lower effective tax rate than (e.g.) a surgeon does, or even a member of the middle class.
I'm sure they'd be perfectly happy to have you not buy CDs, so they can sue you and you can settle for 5K instead of facing greater legal bills. They could do just fine and never sell anything again.
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Out of curiousity, what changes happened in European languages? I know that in English we dropped most of the ligatures (either entirely, or as in some nouns like Caesar and encyclopaedia spelling them as separate letters), but what else?
Any chance of a release for GNU HURD?
Surely it's more an issue of, if they throw the book at this 20 year old, the other ten thousand they're suing (many of whom likely can't afford lawyers, or don't want their parents to find out when something goes to court, etc) won't put up a fight?
As a rather poor analogy, if I play keno and win, the casino has no problem giving me ten thousand dollars on my one dollar ticket. They know a million other tickets will lose later on and more than pay them back.
Not really. It's easier to give a few hundred thousand in "campaign financing" to the judge, or if not him, whichever body will appoint his replacement.
A high school kid, say, who plays a lot and accumulates items worth $10k over a year will NOT have to pay 2K in income tax, correct?
Because I can see that sucking for a lot of people.
He may be talking about the total number of plants growing during the Devonian compared to the amount of oil that was produced when they fossilized, and then working out the gas that was made from that oil. I would guess the figure may include the vast majority of plants that rotted, were consumed in forest fires, or otherwise didn't get into your gas tank.
Ah, thanks. I'm likely going to be single for some time, and I'm going into academia after I get out of grad school so I should have the spare cash to pay a bit more for a car up-front... so it's the sort of car I'd be lookking for. Certainly not good for soccer moms, or people with hobbies that involve moving a lot of stuff around (boating, etc). Also, I already know how to drive a stick (my dad loves them) - so few people in the states do, it amazes me.
As other comments have said, first of all, coal comes from here (we don't need to fight wars to "maintain control" of it), and second of all, it's likely that during the life of your car the sources of electricity will change.
If I can ask, which model do you get 60 mpg real world? I've seen figures in the high thirties to mid forties.
Also, the entire point of plug-in hybrids is that if he does excess the "range" they're quoting, all that will happen is that the gas engine will start, and he'll begin to pay $3/gallon with the rest of us.
Also google has datacenters in several cities. They could probably deal with an outage in San Francisco by just dropping it from the roundrobins.
I really doubt that's still in effect (especially since, while not a precedent, there's a district court decision elsewhere specifically stating that intelligent design is not scientific, is religious, and can't be taught in the public schools).
I want to see a Canadian business that, for $100 or so, sends takedown notices regarding each other student in a programming class graded on a curve.
To whatever extent that may be true, I wonder if it's due to Canada spending half as much per capita on healthcare.
Firstly, IANAL. If YAAL, then be ANAL and tell me what I screwed up. Or mod me down blindly, and bill your clients for the time it took to do that. They'll be a lot more upset than I am.
In at least some US states, at least according to Wikipedia, the rule is that a noncompete is valid if it keeps you from engaging in direct competition, and getting an unfair advantage from information learned in the course of employment, in the same geographical area.
I doubt that a restriction of the form "you can't work for anyone but us in computing for 5 years" or "we define our business as, in part, "web design," 'consumer products,' and 'office applications' Any company that does work, in part, in fields along those lines is probably competing with us somehow, so you may not work for them for 5 years" is going to be seen as compatible with public policy anywhere.
Of course, it might be enforcable under the whole unofficial "the party that can spend 4+ orders of magnitude more on lawyers to smack down the other party wins by default" set of laws.
It would burn up, or be significantly slowed, on the way down through the atmosphere - the proposed elevators would weigh in the hundreds of micrograms to milligrams per meter (in other words, the section that might hit your home would be the weight of a few grains of salt).
The whole hitting-at-high-speed scenario might be more plausible on Mars (MUCH thinner atmosphere), not to mention I believe in that novel they had a significantly heavier elevator, but even there I think the author overstated what would be accepted.
Governments license many things. Almost all road construction is done by private companies. I don't see how that makes the issues at stake any different. If the Thai government nationalized (parts of) the drug industry, if anything, I would see that as a slippery slope to communism.
Off topic but...
Have you heard of anyone in the US being arrested for connecting to, or downloading from, the site in your sig? I can't imagine that the RIAA can get every ISP to log all their web traffic, but... just wondering if it's relatively safe to do.
So who, with a realistic chance of winning, are we supposed to vote for? Or is the entire country supposed to magically start voting for third parties that can't win at once, so that they start winning?
Saying the big human rights problem with China is their restriction of online gaming is like saying the problem with Bob Jones University is not supporting Linux on the network.
That would be worse than you make it sound though. Many, actually most, of my friends use AIM on Windows. It's quite likely that if gaim had to drop AIM support, some of them would simply give up talking to me, rather than install yet another messenger program specifically to talk to me. That would not, in fact, be pleasant for me.
And no, using another IM program that supports Linux might work for awhile, but I expect AOL would sue them too for something sooner or later. Illegal access to their servers, if nothing else.
Actually, both of them likely have capital gains that far, far outpace income. And as such probably pay a much lower effective tax rate than (e.g.) a surgeon does, or even a member of the middle class.
Then how do the illuminati track me with the GPS receiver they hid in my brain?
Of course, the same goes for a conventional encyclopedia, especially when you get to the graduate level.
If I based my final paper for a course on what I found when I looked up, say, neural networks in Britannica, believe me, I wouldn't get that far.
I'm sure they'd be perfectly happy to have you not buy CDs, so they can sue you and you can settle for 5K instead of facing greater legal bills. They could do just fine and never sell anything again.