I find it interesting that the same conservative judges that found punitive damages in excess of ten times the actual damages are unconstitutional . . . when applied to wealthy corporations by injured people . . . but when multipliers in the thousands are applied to people by corporations, these 'conservatives' find there's no need to take a look at the case.
I care. The very nature of the fact that Ron Paul does not believe in evolution means that Ron Paul does not accept the scientific method, the fundamental insight into how the universe works that underlies the most productive period and greatest increase in human quality of life in the 30,000 years since we developed brains that could manage deep comprehension.
If you don't care about that, whatever values you may share with me are not supported by any logical thought, only unsupported intuitions you happen to hold, not anything I may place trust in as a principle. You are an trained primate subject to the next leash you are talked into next putting about your throat, and trusting you to hold to any principle you claim to espouse reduces me to the same.
My reading of this is that the German lawsuit was filed after the U.S. lawsuit, expressly because Motorola didn't particularly like the way the U.S. Lawsuit was going, aka Motorola was Forum Shopping after the fact and hoping to use that result to pressure Microsoft to give in the original case.
Practically I don't see that the U.S. Court had any choice but to slap them down hard to discourage that as a tactic. Don't like how your case is going here? Sue in France!
Since the Gold Standard is based on the theory that the value of "all the Gold in the earths crust" is exactly equal to the value of "everything else in the earths crust being put to it's best use", I'd have to say that's actually a problem with Gold.
To be fair, that's a problem with any standard of that style and is the exact reason we got off the Gold Standard. What amazes me is the number of people that blindly assert how the Gold Standard and no Fed was wonderful, while ignoring the fact that recessions last longer, were more common, and we had worse inflation problems then. To steal a phrase, the good old days weren't always good.
See, since defunding the Military eliminates 25% of the Budget, and removing the IRS eliminate 100% of the budget, you just debunked both Ron Paul's budget plan *and* his belief that schools are fine.
I'm sorry, but no . . . as a sad retrogamer, the PC 'Graphics' hardly qualified. There is nothing quite as painful as looking at the PC version of a game that looked great on the ST or C64 on the PC. Starflight, Dungeon Master, Neuromancer, et al. Starflight and Stellar Crusade are particularly egregious - {G}.
Given that the motive force is entirely electric, I'm not sure I see this as disingenous or marketspeak. It's an electric car with a gasoline generator providing the extended range. If someone invented a Shipstone tomorrow you would be replacing the batteries and generator with a Shipstone and you'd be done.
But . . . But . . . Jan Brewer is one of the Tea Party candidates, an originalist who loves the Constitution!
This is btw, not so much a criticism of the Tea Party (though I think there's a lot to critique there) politics as it is their vapid willingness to vote for anyone that pronounces their shibboleth's correctly regardless of actual actions.
If you deliberately put your property into a self-replicating machine, then sell the machine fully knowing that the entire point of the operation was for the buyers to use the self-replicating properties of the machine . . . I'd have to say you've given anyone that legally acquires a copy of that machine a license.
Moreover, you designed a license that explicitly allowed people to sell the product of the self-replication.
We had Satellite (We're in the boonies) and honestly at the time we coonsistently watched the Daily Show, The Colbert Report, various documentaries from the science networks that were, at their best, only on par with average PBS programming, and often no where close, and some news.
HDTV and a MythTV box were easily worth trading those out for. DailyShow and Colbert are online. Since then I've done Netflix and caught up on some good TV series. I bought a Roku box when my Wii was in for repairs - I wish the interface was as good as the Wii interface, but it does have a lot of nice features.
"it was more about trying to humiliate someone for no reason, at best"
And that's the point - hate crimes imply a reason. Stupidity is often for no reason.
I don't particularly agree with hate crime legislation -- I can think of nothing which can be prosecuted as a hate crime that should not be prosecuted with equal vigor if no emotional context is available at all. I don't see that a racist is somehow more vicious than a sociopath with no conscience at all if they are performing the same actions.
The flip side of which is -- if he had filmed his roommate doing something kinky, or having sex with someone homely, or masturbating . . . would we be having this conversation?
I've found Debian+MythTV to be a great package; The only headache I have is that for reasons unknown the Description occasionally is not related the the Title (e.g. Nova: Andy and Opie go fishing while Barney minds the sheriffs office What?)
I just don't care about blueray - I cared about DVD for completely different reasons than the MPAA seems to think I do. I like commentary tracks, I like not rewinding, and I often like extra materials. The better video quality is nice too, but there's a distinct limit to how much I care.
If Blueray get's 'sufficiently' cheap, I'll consider it but only when I can easily buy burnable Blue ray discs for back-up purposes, and I haven't seen those at Costco yet.
To be fair to he and his shiny new devices - I had several nice smartphones (provided by work) - and between the fact that I didn't like the interfaces, didn't like the data plans (in the one case I was paying for), and didn't like the reception, the lack of the mp3 features I list was valid, but irrelevant. I did in fact downgrade to a dumb (Well, dumber) phone specifically because I wanted a phone that did one thing well. My data needs are met by my ebook reader of all things, which does what it does quite well, and my MP3 player is a Sansa with Rockbox and (God help me) a Midi plugin because I am evidently still 13 years old and think Midi files are cool.
For my turing machine needs, I still prefer a desktop computer. I may consider a tablet, I would consider a laptop if I had the leet skillz to build one myself. Otherwise - yeah, I like hardware that does one thing well.
On what basis do you say Religion is really good at the Why? In my experience Religion has a thousand contradictory explanations of the Why, and that's when you stay in one specific Religion.
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I find it interesting that the same conservative judges that found punitive damages in excess of ten times the actual damages are unconstitutional . . . when applied to wealthy corporations by injured people . . . but when multipliers in the thousands are applied to people by corporations, these 'conservatives' find there's no need to take a look at the case.
Corrupt pricks.
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Ron Paul doesn't believe in evolution.
Who cares?
I care. The very nature of the fact that Ron Paul does not believe in evolution means that Ron Paul does not accept the scientific method, the fundamental insight into how the universe works that underlies the most productive period and greatest increase in human quality of life in the 30,000 years since we developed brains that could manage deep comprehension.
If you don't care about that, whatever values you may share with me are not supported by any logical thought, only unsupported intuitions you happen to hold, not anything I may place trust in as a principle. You are an trained primate subject to the next leash you are talked into next putting about your throat, and trusting you to hold to any principle you claim to espouse reduces me to the same.
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"The only music that you can hear for free is when the birds sing," He said
'And we're working on that' he thought
-- Stingray CEO Eric Boyko
My reading of this is that the German lawsuit was filed after the U.S. lawsuit, expressly because Motorola didn't particularly like the way the U.S. Lawsuit was going, aka Motorola was Forum Shopping after the fact and hoping to use that result to pressure Microsoft to give in the original case.
Practically I don't see that the U.S. Court had any choice but to slap them down hard to discourage that as a tactic. Don't like how your case is going here? Sue in France!
Pug
Since the Gold Standard is based on the theory that the value of "all the Gold in the earths crust" is exactly equal to the value of "everything else in the earths crust being put to it's best use", I'd have to say that's actually a problem with Gold.
To be fair, that's a problem with any standard of that style and is the exact reason we got off the Gold Standard. What amazes me is the number of people that blindly assert how the Gold Standard and no Fed was wonderful, while ignoring the fact that recessions last longer, were more common, and we had worse inflation problems then. To steal a phrase, the good old days weren't always good.
Pug
See, since defunding the Military eliminates 25% of the Budget, and removing the IRS eliminate 100% of the budget, you just debunked both Ron Paul's budget plan *and* his belief that schools are fine.
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No. He's really not.
My Atari ST would dispute that - at least at the Amiga level.
But yeah, I grew up on the C64.
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I'm sorry, but no . . . as a sad retrogamer, the PC 'Graphics' hardly qualified. There is nothing quite as painful as looking at the PC version of a game that looked great on the ST or C64 on the PC. Starflight, Dungeon Master, Neuromancer, et al. Starflight and Stellar Crusade are particularly egregious - {G}.
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Bull - Sid Meier invented those!
Given that the motive force is entirely electric, I'm not sure I see this as disingenous or marketspeak. It's an electric car with a gasoline generator providing the extended range. If someone invented a Shipstone tomorrow you would be replacing the batteries and generator with a Shipstone and you'd be done.
Pug
But . . . But . . . Jan Brewer is one of the Tea Party candidates, an originalist who loves the Constitution!
This is btw, not so much a criticism of the Tea Party (though I think there's a lot to critique there) politics as it is their vapid willingness to vote for anyone that pronounces their shibboleth's correctly regardless of actual actions.
Pug
If you deliberately put your property into a self-replicating machine, then sell the machine fully knowing that the entire point of the operation was for the buyers to use the self-replicating properties of the machine . . . I'd have to say you've given anyone that legally acquires a copy of that machine a license.
Moreover, you designed a license that explicitly allowed people to sell the product of the self-replication.
Pug
That's redefining the term 'leader' to a point of meaningless.
We had Satellite (We're in the boonies) and honestly at the time we coonsistently watched the Daily Show, The Colbert Report, various documentaries from the science networks that were, at their best, only on par with average PBS programming, and often no where close, and some news.
HDTV and a MythTV box were easily worth trading those out for. DailyShow and Colbert are online. Since then I've done Netflix and caught up on some good TV series. I bought a Roku box when my Wii was in for repairs - I wish the interface was as good as the Wii interface, but it does have a lot of nice features.
Why would I pay for satellite?
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Actually - as a trademark isn't it required to be in 'competition'? Same way Apple Records could not enforce a trademark versus Apple Computers.
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Are the Aliens Amazon Babes? I was promised an invasion by alien amazon babes!
"it was more about trying to humiliate someone for no reason, at best"
And that's the point - hate crimes imply a reason. Stupidity is often for no reason.
I don't particularly agree with hate crime legislation -- I can think of nothing which can be prosecuted as a hate crime that should not be prosecuted with equal vigor if no emotional context is available at all. I don't see that a racist is somehow more vicious than a sociopath with no conscience at all if they are performing the same actions.
The flip side of which is -- if he had filmed his roommate doing something kinky, or having sex with someone homely, or masturbating . . . would we be having this conversation?
Pug
I've found Debian+MythTV to be a great package; The only headache I have is that for reasons unknown the Description occasionally is not related the the Title (e.g. Nova: Andy and Opie go fishing while Barney minds the sheriffs office What?)
Pug
Oddly enough the word 'soundbit' is itself neither a bit nor a byte but qualifies as an eight-byte word.
That's Recursive Justice. It's not Poetic Justice unless you have rhyme or scansion.
Perhaps a license writ in iambic pentameter.
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Missed by that much!
More Monkeys!
I just don't care about blueray - I cared about DVD for completely different reasons than the MPAA seems to think I do. I like commentary tracks, I like not rewinding, and I often like extra materials. The better video quality is nice too, but there's a distinct limit to how much I care.
If Blueray get's 'sufficiently' cheap, I'll consider it but only when I can easily buy burnable Blue ray discs for back-up purposes, and I haven't seen those at Costco yet.
Pug
To be fair to he and his shiny new devices - I had several nice smartphones (provided by work) - and between the fact that I didn't like the interfaces, didn't like the data plans (in the one case I was paying for), and didn't like the reception, the lack of the mp3 features I list was valid, but irrelevant. I did in fact downgrade to a dumb (Well, dumber) phone specifically because I wanted a phone that did one thing well. My data needs are met by my ebook reader of all things, which does what it does quite well, and my MP3 player is a Sansa with Rockbox and (God help me) a Midi plugin because I am evidently still 13 years old and think Midi files are cool.
For my turing machine needs, I still prefer a desktop computer. I may consider a tablet, I would consider a laptop if I had the leet skillz to build one myself. Otherwise - yeah, I like hardware that does one thing well.
Pug
On what basis do you say Religion is really good at the Why?
In my experience Religion has a thousand contradictory explanations of the Why, and that's when you stay in one specific Religion.
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