The common underpinning of faith does not imply that other religions share the institutionalized, wholesale abuse and corruption committed by the Church of Scientology.
Hey, no need to just 'imply' it...
Scientology is only 60 years old. Give 'em time.
The Christian church has been committing "institutionalized, wholesale abuse and corruption" for hundreds of years. Crusades. Inquisition. Molestation. Money-Laundering.
Can human apply the earth laws, such as copyrights, into other corners in the universe?
Yes. Unfortunately for us, the aliens will read the data on the disk and send back a message: Thank you for your information. Our clients hold the universal copyright on RNA and DNA replication technology. This letter is official notification under Section A484615(d) of the Universal Millennium Copyright Act (”UMCA”), and we seek the removal of the aforementioned infringing material from your planet. I request that you immediately notify the infringers of this notice and inform them of their duty to remove the infringing material immediately, and notify them to cease any further replication of DNA or RNA on your planet in the future.
An enforcement detail will arrive in your system in one week to ensure compliance.
The companies that produce things raise money by selling shares of their company (stocks) or borrowing money (bonds) on Wall Street.
Sort of...
Very simply... the first time the stock sells, that money goes to the company. From then on, however, the shares go from trader to trader, with the money made and lost by the traders. (Oversimplified)
An analogy might be baseball trading cards: When the card sells in the store, that money goes to the card company. But from then on, the kids on the playground trade, and buy, and sell them based on desirability, rarity, etc.
When some card eventually sells for thousands of dollars, it doesn't benefit the card company.
PROHIBITED DESTINATIONS The U.S. holds complete embargoes against Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria
The exportation, reexportation, sale or supply, directly or indirectly, from the United States, or by a U.S. person wherever located, of any Apple goods, software, technology (including technical data), or services to any of these countries is strictly prohibited without prior authorization by the U.S. Government. This prohibition also applies to any Apple owned subsidiary or any subsidiary employee worldwide.
The U.S. holds complete embargoes against Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria
The exportation, reexportation, sale or supply, directly or indirectly, from the United States, or by a U.S. person wherever located, of any Apple goods, software, technology (including technical data), or services to any of these countries is strictly prohibited without prior authorization by the U.S. Government. This prohibition also applies to any Apple owned subsidiary or any subsidiary employee worldwide.
She wouldn't even need to go to another store. She could have just walked over to another clerk, and not mention that she was buying it for export to Iran.
As long as the clerk doesn't know, it's not illegal for the clerk to sell to her.
(It is, of course, still illegal for her to buy it with the intention of exporting it to Iran.)
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The common underpinning of faith does not imply that other religions share the institutionalized, wholesale abuse and corruption committed by the Church of Scientology.
Hey, no need to just 'imply' it...
Scientology is only 60 years old. Give 'em time.
The Christian church has been committing "institutionalized, wholesale abuse and corruption" for hundreds of years. Crusades. Inquisition. Molestation. Money-Laundering.
What's with the need for skeptics to equate all religion with Scientology in every article about the CoS?
Because no true Scotsman would believe that crazy stuff in Scientology!
Hey, they both purport to be religions, and are based on fables.
In one they come down from outer space and defy death; in the other he defies death and then flies up into space.
That's religion in general, Scientology just ups the ante.
Right you are:
Webster:
religion
noun \ri-li-jn\
2 : a personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices
4 : a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith
On some models you can use the carb as an intake, but you make have choke issues...
Don't worry...
On /. they will find a way to describe sex using car analogies.
Strangely enough, the last message transmitted from the UAV to control was, "I'm afraid I can't do that Dave..."
Can human apply the earth laws, such as copyrights, into other corners in the universe?
Yes. Unfortunately for us, the aliens will read the data on the disk and send back a message:
Thank you for your information. Our clients hold the universal copyright on RNA and DNA replication technology. This letter is official notification under Section A484615(d) of the Universal Millennium Copyright Act (”UMCA”), and we seek the removal of the aforementioned infringing material from your planet. I request that you immediately notify the infringers of this notice and inform them of their duty to remove the infringing material immediately, and notify them to cease any further replication of DNA or RNA on your planet in the future.
An enforcement detail will arrive in your system in one week to ensure compliance.
Thank you.
Lab grown diamonds can be made at a price per carat about $5.
Source:
Wired article: "The New Diamond Age"
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/diamond_pr.html
No...
That stuff will kill you half the time.
It might be more interesting if when a corporation is convicted of a crime everyone who works there goes to jail, except the whistle-blowers.
It might make for more law-abiding corporations.
Oh - agreed! (I did say it was oversimplified...)
I'm sure kids would not buy as many baseball cards if they could not trade them with their friends later.
I just wanted to point out that (other than it's own stock that a company holds) the sale of stock only benefits the company on the original sale.
...yes, those were fun times.
They used to strap radioactive stuff to their nuts, too (The Scrotal Radiendocrinator)
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/offbeat-news/10-radioactive-products-that-people-actually-used/1388?image=4
But just because they used to do it doesn't mean we should.
The companies that produce things raise money by selling shares of their company (stocks) or borrowing money (bonds) on Wall Street.
Sort of...
Very simply... the first time the stock sells, that money goes to the company. From then on, however, the shares go from trader to trader, with the money made and lost by the traders. (Oversimplified)
An analogy might be baseball trading cards: When the card sells in the store, that money goes to the card company. But from then on, the kids on the playground trade, and buy, and sell them based on desirability, rarity, etc.
When some card eventually sells for thousands of dollars, it doesn't benefit the card company.
Is it time for the Turing Police?
"...The average household income of their readers is $128,000."
...unfortunately, their readership is Bill Gates and 20,000 open source coders.
Damn it! ... He's using the Chewbacca defense!
Apples' own "Export Compliance" page.
Source: ..about 7/8 down the page.
http://www.apple.com/legal/export.html
PROHIBITED DESTINATIONS
The U.S. holds complete embargoes against Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria
The exportation, reexportation, sale or supply, directly or indirectly, from the United States, or by a U.S. person wherever located, of any Apple goods, software, technology (including technical data), or services to any of these countries is strictly prohibited without prior authorization by the U.S. Government. This prohibition also applies to any Apple owned subsidiary or any subsidiary employee worldwide.
...apparently not:
PROHIBITED DESTINATIONS
The U.S. holds complete embargoes against Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria
The exportation, reexportation, sale or supply, directly or indirectly, from the United States, or by a U.S. person wherever located, of any Apple goods, software, technology (including technical data), or services to any of these countries is strictly prohibited without prior authorization by the U.S. Government. This prohibition also applies to any Apple owned subsidiary or any subsidiary employee worldwide.
Ah, yes, the AC who is an expert on US trade law.
Is that Dick Cheney posting again...?
She wouldn't even need to go to another store. She could have just walked over to another clerk, and not mention that she was buying it for export to Iran.
As long as the clerk doesn't know, it's not illegal for the clerk to sell to her.
(It is, of course, still illegal for her to buy it with the intention of exporting it to Iran.)
Does an Apple employee have the right to prevent the purchase merely because someone said something?
Actually; yes. An employee who knows, or should know, that a sale is illegal, can refuse a sale.
The employee heard her say she was buying it for her Uncle in Iran ...and refused the sale. It wasn't just that she was speaking Farsi.
I thought they would just complete the sale, install Stuxnet, re-wrap the unit, and wish them a nice day...
This has been going on forever,
Stan Freberg was mocking it here: ...back in 1956!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxz6_utUsZo
(5 x 21" speakers in the ceiling and 4 x 10' horns!!)
...except when they force them to assemble Ikea furniture.