In other words, you think it's OK for companies to break their own policies. Were you also OK with it the last time a company broke its privacy policy and sold your email address to spammers?
I'm in St. Louis County and we have touchscreen machines here, with a paper trail that you can verify, or punch (stylus) machines -- you get to choose. I haven't seen the marker/oval type here.
Dupes aside, WTF is with the insane and stupid tags? I thought a system was implemented that would wipe out crap like "haha". It's driven me nuts for a long time and I was glad when the system was "fixed". Looks like it re-broke.
But then, this from the software that STILL doesn't have an edit button!
And how are you going to prove that I agreed to it? As you pointed out in your own message, these are a joke. How exactly are you going to extort that $1,000 out of me? How are you going to force me to turn it over? You can't prove in court that I agreed to your license because you provided the goods before you had my signature or other agreement. Software licenses and real-world goods licenses don't give you the goodies until AFTER you agree.
If someone emails me something and then whines about what I do with it, perhaps they should have come to me first and said "I'm sending you (x), but if I do, will you not do (y) with it?" and then only sent it after I agreed? THAT would be enforceable.
Too bad for him that the Church officially has already apologized to Galileo and admitted it was wrong... 500 years too late, but at least they did it.
Jailing people for being right is not, and should never be, acceptable. And you shouldn't wait til they're dead to apologize. Gee, isn't it convenient that they didn't have to eat crow to his face, and pay reparation?
No, you don't have to say anything. If this was already known to be the stance, you just make an ass of yourself by getting up and waving your hands around and screaming "HEY! I'M OFFENDED OMG NO NO NO YOU CAN'T DO THAT BECAUSE I'M OFFENDED, SCREW ANYONE WHO THINKS DIFFERENTLY THAN I DO, YOU DON'T MATTER!"... Crap like this is why these hidebound, dogmatic (words chosen deliberately), bigoted, sexist (if you're a woman like me, they won't allow you into their old boys' club, which means I don't give a damn about them and what they think; if they don't care about me, why should I care about them?) are becoming increasingly irrelevant as time goes on. Christianity is losing adherents. Other religions are gaining them.
Maybe their closedmindedness, at least in the Catholic flavor, has a lot to do with that.
Fuck 'em. Things are moving on, and if they want to be left behind, fine. But let's see how their tune changes when they're the ones dying from diseases and other problems that were solved long ago by this research, and those who refuse to be held back by outdated views accept and undergo treatment.
Let 'em Darwin themselves out of existence.
Oh, you don't believe in Darwin, either, Mr. Oblivious?
Too bad the "theory" (scientific, not lay) you have your head in the sand about is still very much in control of the way the universe works.
Let me repost the article summary, with highlights added to answer the question that you could have answered had you taken a little more time to think:
"One of the documents relating to the case was marked 203A-WF-210023. Last week, however, the FBI responded to a freedom of information request for a file of exactly the same number by claiming that it did not exist. But The Sunday Times has obtained a document signed by an FBI official showing the existence of the file. Edmonds believes the crucial file is being deliberately covered up by the FBI because its contents are explosive. She accuses the agency of an 'outright lie.'"
Does that answer your pointless and already-addressed question?
There was a lawsuit against that in which a course tried to block a disabled player from being able to use a golf cart.
They lost since they were failing to provide reasonable accommodation under the ADA.
I was boggled that anyone would be that ridiculous so as to go to court to stop him. They apparently wanted him to crawl, judging from the arguments they were making, or just sit there when he wasn't able to walk anymore. I would have thought the fact that you can get a parking permit for handicapped spaces for the same medical issue (being unable to walk) would have been enough to clue them in that the ADA was in play.
And yet, there are individuals with extremely acute hearing who aren't banned from competitions that require hearing in some way. What is the difference? As someone else pointed out, there are individuals with a natural advantage over others who still can enter competitions... and I don't mean steroid-filled baseball players.
I don't sign, but one could counter that with deaf people being nervous around hearing people who make sure you can't see their lips when they're talking, so as to carry on a conversation that the deaf people aren't in on. So it goes both ways.
I don't think having artificial legs is "cheating", though. He couldn't live a life close to normal without them. Because of a device he needs to live as well as he can, he's being blocked from his profession/hobby/avocation/whatever.
I don't know yet what I think of this, but considering I remember reading about a chess tournament that banned players with hearing aids (seriously, WTF?) I'm not sure I like this trend of accusing anyone who has artificial replacements for body parts that don't work right of doing something naughty.
This is the first time I've heard of a handicapped person being discriminated against because they're too good. As someone who's hard of hearing, I find 99% of bias against me coming from the fact that I'm not good enough.
Profanity is profanity and has no place in a rational debate. Don't like it? Too bad. And you're a troll because you know full well your "response" is designed to provoke a fight. I'm not going to rise to the bait. If you wanted rational debate you should have written a rational, calm response that actually outlined the points you wanted to make. But that wasn't good enough for you, and so you'll have to find someone else to pick a fight with because I'm not going to engage in discussion with petty people who think cursing and yelling automatically wins somehow. There's plenty of other commenters in this story. Go argue with them, I'm sure someone else will descend to the immaturity level you've managed to display.
It's that kind of BS attitude that is screwing over our environment as we speak because we're too lazy to clean up our own messes and "we can leave it for our kids to deal with". Well, that never got done because it kept getting put off.
News flash: the future matters.
Are you really that oblivious that you have to post arrogant, rude, and profanity-laden troll responses on message forums when people dare to think beyond their own tiny little world?
One of the best arguments I've seen supporting space efforts was a fictional news interview that was shown on TV around ten years ago or so as part of a drama.
Interviewer asks: "Why should we spend money on space? Why do we need to spend billions building space stations, the ships to get there, unmanned probes, why are we interested in finding and someday visiting other planets in our solar system and, someday, outside it? What's the point? Why have a space program at all?" And I always mentally add the unspoken question of "why does the space program constantly get bad press for using, at most, 1% of the federal budget and why does it still get reamed out for being a money-waster when we spend trillions on killing people, which is not as productive and doesn't inspire dreamers? Please explain to these shortsighted idiots why it's important."
The answer was:
"Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu and Einstein and Morobuto and Buddy Holly and Aristophenes... and all of this... all of this was for nothing unless we go to the stars."
I don't think the request is to actually sell all those games in US stores. Just make them work for US buyers so that people who want to buy from other countries can do so. (I'm not a console gamer, but I understand this problem)
Closed captions. Which actually work through RCA and S-Video and sometimes component, but not through HDMI or DVI. And I can't find any info about HD players that create the captions on their side (the way the tivo series 3 I have now does) to bypass this problem.
I realize it's a government problem, but how often does the government act to actually sere its citizens? It's only fast when it's serving itself.
And those of us who need that help just can't wait that long.
Slashdot Mirror
You have to be under NDA to read a public website? Read this link -- it was on Apple's own website!
AppleInsider | Apple yanks wireless backup from Leopard last minute
I guess now you'll want to scream "illegal" when people pass along something they read on the front page of the paper.
Scan forward a sentence to the and notify you of such cancellation bit again. Since you missed it the first time, apparently.
Good luck finding companies that don't have silly patents somewhere in their portfolios these days.
In other words, you think it's OK for companies to break their own policies. Were you also OK with it the last time a company broke its privacy policy and sold your email address to spammers?
You got THAT right.
I'm in St. Louis County and we have touchscreen machines here, with a paper trail that you can verify, or punch (stylus) machines -- you get to choose. I haven't seen the marker/oval type here.
Dupes aside, WTF is with the insane and stupid tags? I thought a system was implemented that would wipe out crap like "haha". It's driven me nuts for a long time and I was glad when the system was "fixed". Looks like it re-broke.
But then, this from the software that STILL doesn't have an edit button!
I briefly took Zoloft for a bit, but didn't have anything like that happen. Any idea what causes it?
And there are far, far worse things to crave than chocolate!
And how are you going to prove that I agreed to it? As you pointed out in your own message, these are a joke. How exactly are you going to extort that $1,000 out of me? How are you going to force me to turn it over? You can't prove in court that I agreed to your license because you provided the goods before you had my signature or other agreement. Software licenses and real-world goods licenses don't give you the goodies until AFTER you agree.
If someone emails me something and then whines about what I do with it, perhaps they should have come to me first and said "I'm sending you (x), but if I do, will you not do (y) with it?" and then only sent it after I agreed? THAT would be enforceable.
The lawyer is SOL.
Too bad for him that the Church officially has already apologized to Galileo and admitted it was wrong ... 500 years too late, but at least they did it.
Jailing people for being right is not, and should never be, acceptable. And you shouldn't wait til they're dead to apologize. Gee, isn't it convenient that they didn't have to eat crow to his face, and pay reparation?
No, you don't have to say anything. If this was already known to be the stance, you just make an ass of yourself by getting up and waving your hands around and screaming "HEY! I'M OFFENDED OMG NO NO NO YOU CAN'T DO THAT BECAUSE I'M OFFENDED, SCREW ANYONE WHO THINKS DIFFERENTLY THAN I DO, YOU DON'T MATTER!" ... Crap like this is why these hidebound, dogmatic (words chosen deliberately), bigoted, sexist (if you're a woman like me, they won't allow you into their old boys' club, which means I don't give a damn about them and what they think; if they don't care about me, why should I care about them?) are becoming increasingly irrelevant as time goes on. Christianity is losing adherents. Other religions are gaining them.
Maybe their closedmindedness, at least in the Catholic flavor, has a lot to do with that.
Fuck 'em. Things are moving on, and if they want to be left behind, fine. But let's see how their tune changes when they're the ones dying from diseases and other problems that were solved long ago by this research, and those who refuse to be held back by outdated views accept and undergo treatment.
Let 'em Darwin themselves out of existence.
Oh, you don't believe in Darwin, either, Mr. Oblivious?
Too bad the "theory" (scientific, not lay) you have your head in the sand about is still very much in control of the way the universe works.
Jail is for when you violate the law, not when you don't.
Uh, why is this "overrated"? It's a perfectly valid point to raise in this discussion.
There was a lawsuit against that in which a course tried to block a disabled player from being able to use a golf cart.
They lost since they were failing to provide reasonable accommodation under the ADA.
I was boggled that anyone would be that ridiculous so as to go to court to stop him. They apparently wanted him to crawl, judging from the arguments they were making, or just sit there when he wasn't able to walk anymore. I would have thought the fact that you can get a parking permit for handicapped spaces for the same medical issue (being unable to walk) would have been enough to clue them in that the ADA was in play.
And yet, there are individuals with extremely acute hearing who aren't banned from competitions that require hearing in some way. What is the difference? As someone else pointed out, there are individuals with a natural advantage over others who still can enter competitions... and I don't mean steroid-filled baseball players.
I don't sign, but one could counter that with deaf people being nervous around hearing people who make sure you can't see their lips when they're talking, so as to carry on a conversation that the deaf people aren't in on. So it goes both ways.
I find your sig hilarious given the context.
I don't think having artificial legs is "cheating", though. He couldn't live a life close to normal without them. Because of a device he needs to live as well as he can, he's being blocked from his profession/hobby/avocation/whatever.
I don't know yet what I think of this, but considering I remember reading about a chess tournament that banned players with hearing aids (seriously, WTF?) I'm not sure I like this trend of accusing anyone who has artificial replacements for body parts that don't work right of doing something naughty.
This is the first time I've heard of a handicapped person being discriminated against because they're too good. As someone who's hard of hearing, I find 99% of bias against me coming from the fact that I'm not good enough.
As an AdBlock Plus user, I certainly wasn't.
Profanity is profanity and has no place in a rational debate. Don't like it? Too bad. And you're a troll because you know full well your "response" is designed to provoke a fight. I'm not going to rise to the bait. If you wanted rational debate you should have written a rational, calm response that actually outlined the points you wanted to make. But that wasn't good enough for you, and so you'll have to find someone else to pick a fight with because I'm not going to engage in discussion with petty people who think cursing and yelling automatically wins somehow. There's plenty of other commenters in this story. Go argue with them, I'm sure someone else will descend to the immaturity level you've managed to display.
It's that kind of BS attitude that is screwing over our environment as we speak because we're too lazy to clean up our own messes and "we can leave it for our kids to deal with". Well, that never got done because it kept getting put off.
News flash: the future matters.
Are you really that oblivious that you have to post arrogant, rude, and profanity-laden troll responses on message forums when people dare to think beyond their own tiny little world?
One of the best arguments I've seen supporting space efforts was a fictional news interview that was shown on TV around ten years ago or so as part of a drama.
... and all of this ... all of this was for nothing unless we go to the stars."
Interviewer asks: "Why should we spend money on space? Why do we need to spend billions building space stations, the ships to get there, unmanned probes, why are we interested in finding and someday visiting other planets in our solar system and, someday, outside it? What's the point? Why have a space program at all?" And I always mentally add the unspoken question of "why does the space program constantly get bad press for using, at most, 1% of the federal budget and why does it still get reamed out for being a money-waster when we spend trillions on killing people, which is not as productive and doesn't inspire dreamers? Please explain to these shortsighted idiots why it's important."
The answer was:
"Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu and Einstein and Morobuto and Buddy Holly and Aristophenes
I don't think the request is to actually sell all those games in US stores. Just make them work for US buyers so that people who want to buy from other countries can do so. (I'm not a console gamer, but I understand this problem)
Closed captions. Which actually work through RCA and S-Video and sometimes component, but not through HDMI or DVI. And I can't find any info about HD players that create the captions on their side (the way the tivo series 3 I have now does) to bypass this problem.
I realize it's a government problem, but how often does the government act to actually sere its citizens? It's only fast when it's serving itself.
And those of us who need that help just can't wait that long.