Seeing how things have been lately, it's worth finding an answer for this question before someone attempts to patent the idea.
Ah, I remember it well! My first petty larceny!!
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I was 10 and and wanted the Boba Fett mail in, but you needed prood of purchases from 4 other figures to mail in to Kenner. So I went into the local department store with a pocket knife and sliced the bar codes off of 4 carded figures and took them home and mailed them in. No reciepts were needed back in those days! *sigh* It just makes me glow inside!
The person making 18,000 is likely getting at least $2k in government assistance to offset the tax burden, so it will even out.
Also, saying the person making 100k is going to waste money on a BMW is steriotypical and tells me you haven't really considered how a person makes 100k. Perhaps they person with the 100k is the employer of the person who makes the 20k. By making the tax burden harder for the "rich", the first man may need to lay off the second. Then he won't even have 20k.
What if the person who makes 100k is able to invest his tax dividend back into the business? To cut costs that are passed onto the consumer? To make his business more competitive? To hire another employee?
Or, you could leave the current tax system in place, and the man with 100k hires a personal investor who shows him how to shelter his entire income, while the man who makes 18k cannot afford to move his money into the same shelters. Poor man pays, rich man doesn't.
No, what is fair is if everyone pays the same. No loopholes.
A Timex Sinclair 1000 An Atari 1200 An Atari 520ST An atari 400 A Star Trek Stratigic Operations Simulator (opps... I just can't help but mention that one sometimes...:^) IBM XT A Mac SE
"...i figured out how to make blender do the things i needed for the most part. Its got a wicked learning curve..."
Now that Blender is Open Source the developers are looking for user feedback to improve future releases. One target is the GUI. Go to Blender.org and offer your thoughts.
Blender's render engine has also been on the low end of things, but that is likely to change soon as well. There are numerous efforts to make Blender export to Renderman format, as well as other higher end render programs.
Also for you Poser types, check out the Makehuman Project for Blender.
This means there is a public comment period approaching. You case mod gurus may want to make your views known on prior art for illuminating computer cases.
The moment these new gun hit the market, there will be people who "chip" them.
They will use arguement like "I paid for it, so it's mine" - "Information wants to be free" - "There's nothing in the EULA preventing me from doing this" - "Fair use, baby!"
When chips that by-pass the security of a gun become common, we may finally get a real test for the DMCA. And if it plays out like this, be prepaired to be disappointed.
IANAL. That said, I think I'd build new icons, images, and work on making the site resemble the Seattle Public School site. You have some images that are very clearly mirrored and lightly tweaked. I think that might be damaging to you.
Also, If you are using html code from the SPS site, I'd ditch it. make your own.
You can make your site look VERY close to thiers, but there is a fine line.
If they pass such a stupid law it would be the best thing that could happen to our argument. It would be a good hard slap in the face to consumers, rather than slowly boiling a frog. I hope they make the laws cross TVs and Digital VCRs, and that there is a rush of people buying the older (non-crippled) components, and then a falloff on buying as the market becomes saturated with the new devices.
Then, hopefully, someone raise their voice and make the point that it is hollywood and special interests hurting the consumer electronics and computer industry, rather than the "end-user". Say goodbye to Jack Valenti's influence in Silicon Valley.
Not true. In fact, it was De Kelley's final performance. And it sits on DAT tapes somewhere, never to be heard by fans.
The game was axed for budgetary reasons. Interplay simply couldn't afford to finish it at the time (they were inches from chapter 11) and now they don't have the license.
Yeah, I haven't purchased a Sierra game since the B5:ITF game was killed. I can't help but get a little mean glow inside thinking that Sierra killed the Lord of the Rings game at the same time, and LOTR has become one of the hottest licensing properties around. They blew the chance to make A LOT of money because they had their heads of their asses. Sierra shitcanned the B5 team and the LOTR team on the same day. I hope the developers feel a bit vindicated.
As a B5 fan it pisses me off that the last performances of these actors in their roles will never be seen. As a gamer I relly wanted a top notch Starfury flight sim.
Slashdot Mirror
"All in about 20 seconds from start to finish"
What, the Slashdot effect?
TSIA
There is no reason to melt lead into the car. You can drill a hole, add lead buckshot, and seal the hole with wood putty.
Far less dangerous.
1st place, cub scout pinewood derby, 1980
Seeing how things have been lately, it's worth finding an answer for this question before someone attempts to patent the idea.
I was 10 and and wanted the Boba Fett mail in, but you needed prood of purchases from 4 other figures to mail in to Kenner. So I went into the local department store with a pocket knife and sliced the bar codes off of 4 carded figures and took them home and mailed them in. No reciepts were needed back in those days! *sigh* It just makes me glow inside!
The person making 18,000 is likely getting at least $2k in government assistance to offset the tax burden, so it will even out.
Also, saying the person making 100k is going to waste money on a BMW is steriotypical and tells me you haven't really considered how a person makes 100k. Perhaps they person with the 100k is the employer of the person who makes the 20k. By making the tax burden harder for the "rich", the first man may need to lay off the second. Then he won't even have 20k.
What if the person who makes 100k is able to invest his tax dividend back into the business? To cut costs that are passed onto the consumer? To make his business more competitive? To hire another employee?
Or, you could leave the current tax system in place, and the man with 100k hires a personal investor who shows him how to shelter his entire income, while the man who makes 18k cannot afford to move his money into the same shelters. Poor man pays, rich man doesn't.
No, what is fair is if everyone pays the same. No loopholes.
You could take all of the confusion out of taxes (and get rid of the loopholes) by enacting a Flat Tax.
Everyone pays n%. Just pick a number, and Everyone is equal. Everyone.
At the end of the year, you just send the IRS your n%. There would be no 100,000 pages of tax law. No need for it. Tax law would fit on a single page.
Let's see:
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A Timex Sinclair 1000
An Atari 1200
An Atari 520ST
An atari 400
A Star Trek Stratigic Operations Simulator (opps... I just can't help but mention that one sometimes...
IBM XT
A Mac SE
Since I was a small child I yearned desperately for an address book... oh, if only the doctors hadn't given me until Jan. 6 to live....
This is news? I fucking address book? You apple types are high strung...
"...i figured out how to make blender do the things i needed for the most part. Its got a wicked learning curve..."
Now that Blender is Open Source the developers are looking for user feedback to improve future releases. One target is the GUI. Go to Blender.org and offer your thoughts.
Blender's render engine has also been on the low end of things, but that is likely to change soon as well. There are numerous efforts to make Blender export to Renderman format, as well as other higher end render programs.
Also for you Poser types, check out the Makehuman Project for Blender.
...they do not yet HAVE the patent.
This means there is a public comment period approaching. You case mod gurus may want to make your views known on prior art for illuminating computer cases.
If you are refering to any arms treaties with the Soviet Union, no, the US is not breaking those treaties. The Soviet Union no longer exists.
The moment these new gun hit the market, there will be people who "chip" them.
They will use arguement like "I paid for it, so it's mine" - "Information wants to be free" - "There's nothing in the EULA preventing me from doing this" - "Fair use, baby!"
When chips that by-pass the security of a gun become common, we may finally get a real test for the DMCA. And if it plays out like this, be prepaired to be disappointed.
The world's most expensive Turok level!!!
WTF!?!... did anyone else notice they are putting the 7200 rpm HDD UNDER the mainboard? With no fan?
Well, you don't need to worry about your trendy computer going out of style, because it's going to die soon!
Yes Pinky, are you pondering what I am pondering?
Yeah Brain! Goldfish sure do get upset when you pet them!
No, my unfortuate brain doner friend. I was thinking if you network a few hundred of them, you'd have raw processing power that rivals a 286!
IANAL. That said, I think I'd build new icons, images, and work on making the site resemble the Seattle Public School site. You have some images that are very clearly mirrored and lightly tweaked. I think that might be damaging to you.
Also, If you are using html code from the SPS site, I'd ditch it. make your own.
You can make your site look VERY close to thiers, but there is a fine line.
Just my wild ass guess, but there ya go.
In space, it is cold enough to overclock....
Shit! All these years, living as a Trek fan, hiding the fact I'm really a Doctor Who fan... well, I may as well just come out now!
No toasters, please!
If they pass such a stupid law it would be the best thing that could happen to our argument. It would be a good hard slap in the face to consumers, rather than slowly boiling a frog. I hope they make the laws cross TVs and Digital VCRs, and that there is a rush of people buying the older (non-crippled) components, and then a falloff on buying as the market becomes saturated with the new devices.
Then, hopefully, someone raise their voice and make the point that it is hollywood and special interests hurting the consumer electronics and computer industry, rather than the "end-user". Say goodbye to Jack Valenti's influence in Silicon Valley.
HactivismO (O for Oprah) License
THIS is a licence that will do as Microsoft claims - it will devour other licenses, is addition to many twinkies!
Not true. In fact, it was De Kelley's final performance. And it sits on DAT tapes somewhere, never to be heard by fans.
The game was axed for budgetary reasons. Interplay simply couldn't afford to finish it at the time (they were inches from chapter 11) and now they don't have the license.
Don't forget Battlecruiser 3000!!!
Yeah, I haven't purchased a Sierra game since the B5:ITF game was killed. I can't help but get a little mean glow inside thinking that Sierra killed the Lord of the Rings game at the same time, and LOTR has become one of the hottest licensing properties around. They blew the chance to make A LOT of money because they had their heads of their asses. Sierra shitcanned the B5 team and the LOTR team on the same day. I hope the developers feel a bit vindicated.
As a B5 fan it pisses me off that the last performances of these actors in their roles will never be seen. As a gamer I relly wanted a top notch Starfury flight sim.
Fuck Sierra. Fuck them right in the ear.