I was buying an electronic address book at a Radio Shack once, ($9) and the sales guy asked if I wanted the extended warranty for $12. They would fix it if it broke.
I had to point out to him that for only $9 bucks, I could buy a brand new unit and just keep it in the closet...
"...there are communities where few people buy porn or sex toys."
But (and again - this is my point):
How would you know that?
When you're sitting next to them in church, or nodding at them as they mow their front lawn; do you really think they are going to volunteer just how much they like to dress up in latex and have the wife whip them?
So you may think that you live in a "Father Knows Best" world, but you need to stop and recall that Lauren (the child actress from "Father Knows Best") wound up a crack addict turning $5 tricks to support her habit. (This is not a metaphor; look it up)
Again, I'm not supporting pr0n or toys, I'm just saying that people probably aren't that forthright about their habits - especially in conservative areas.
I'm sure I don't need to trot out the long litany of preachers and "family values" politicians scandals to make my point...
I don't think the DVD player analogy is quite right. In the case of hardware - you are depriving someone else of the stolen DVD player. Not so with a cracked copy.
Now, I'm against piracy; but haven't you purchased a 'license' for one functional copy of XP?
If the one legal copy you have fails to run - and you have followed the terms of the license, aren't you entitled to have a single functioning copy?
Agreed. The "internet" should be declared as a specific place (like an embassy is actually "foreign soil")
Then, there could be a separate community standard just for the internet.
One of the problems with establishing a realistic community standard is that most people don't want to go on record and say they watch lots of pr0n, or buy sex toys; so the community standard comes out artificially low.
According to a CNBC report on adult entertaiment, there's:
* $3,075 is spent on it
* More than 28,000 Internet users are viewing it
* 372 Internet users are using search engines to find it ...that's every SECOND
I think everyone here knows it's illegal...
I was just putting a slightly finer 'point' on it by saying - it's not just that you would have criminal penalties; it's that you would have criminal penalties and no monetary profits at all.
The author of the graffiti can claim copyright - however they cannot make a profit from it, since many states have laws saying that the criminal cannot profit from the fruits of their crime. (Although I don't know if this is true in IL)
They could theoretically claim it, but since they would be admitting guilt, without the hope of profit, there would be little benefit.
...as do I about the publication, without permission, of my quatrain dirge about my disappointment after lengthy preparations were made for evacuation and then, horribly and tragically, I was only able to produce flatus.
Happily though, Michael Bay has a two picture option on it.
This is similar to the what happens with sodium acetate (used in re-usable hand warmers and such) which can't 'remember' how to crystallize until provided with a seed (the button trigger in a warmer) and then gives off heat as it crystallizes.
I believe it would have to go to DARPA since they 'made' it. If it was to the "World Wide Web" (instead of the "Internet") it would probably go to Tim Berners-Lee or CERN.
October is already "Graphene On Silicon Substrate Month"
Don't you ever go to any of the "Graphene Grope" parties?
Don't you hang decorative substrate sheets all over the house and on your front door?
Of course, it's irritating when the trash pick-up and mail are delayed because of the GOSS Holidays, but hey... it's a such a great tradition for the kids...
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...even more hilarious was that he totally failed to notice the:
"DANGER! Spikes pop out of phone receiver!"
sign right over the phone!
We laughed for hours...
...the windows of your Escalade...
I was buying an electronic address book at a Radio Shack once, ($9) and the sales guy asked if I wanted the extended warranty for $12. They would fix it if it broke.
I had to point out to him that for only $9 bucks, I could buy a brand new unit and just keep it in the closet...
"Wow, I really feel like I'm playing virtual skeeball!"
BTW: The reference said "38% have at least one pirated application installed"
That's a singular, not always plural, pirated app.
That's OK,
Linux users got root.
How have: "traffic cameras have actually increased accident rates"?
Have people been crashing after being blinded by the strobe lights?
"...there are communities where few people buy porn or sex toys."
But (and again - this is my point): How would you know that?
When you're sitting next to them in church, or nodding at them as they mow their front lawn; do you really think they are going to volunteer just how much they like to dress up in latex and have the wife whip them?
So you may think that you live in a "Father Knows Best" world, but you need to stop and recall that Lauren (the child actress from "Father Knows Best") wound up a crack addict turning $5 tricks to support her habit. (This is not a metaphor; look it up)
Again, I'm not supporting pr0n or toys, I'm just saying that people probably aren't that forthright about their habits - especially in conservative areas.
I'm sure I don't need to trot out the long litany of preachers and "family values" politicians scandals to make my point...
I don't think the DVD player analogy is quite right. In the case of hardware - you are depriving someone else of the stolen DVD player. Not so with a cracked copy.
Now, I'm against piracy; but haven't you purchased a 'license' for one functional copy of XP?
If the one legal copy you have fails to run - and you have followed the terms of the license, aren't you entitled to have a single functioning copy?
Maybe he released himself into "police custody"! :)
Agreed. The "internet" should be declared as a specific place (like an embassy is actually "foreign soil")
...that's every SECOND
Then, there could be a separate community standard just for the internet.
One of the problems with establishing a realistic community standard is that most people don't want to go on record and say they watch lots of pr0n, or buy sex toys; so the community standard comes out artificially low.
According to a CNBC report on adult entertaiment, there's:
* $3,075 is spent on it
* More than 28,000 Internet users are viewing it
* 372 Internet users are using search engines to find it
So somebody is buying it!
http://www.cnbc.com/id/31586577?slide=2
I think everyone here knows it's illegal...
:)
I was just putting a slightly finer 'point' on it by saying - it's not just that you would have criminal penalties; it's that you would have criminal penalties and no monetary profits at all.
The author of the graffiti can claim copyright - however they cannot make a profit from it, since many states have laws saying that the criminal cannot profit from the fruits of their crime. (Although I don't know if this is true in IL)
They could theoretically claim it, but since they would be admitting guilt, without the hope of profit, there would be little benefit.
...as do I about the publication, without permission, of my quatrain dirge about my disappointment after lengthy preparations were made for evacuation and then, horribly and tragically, I was only able to produce flatus.
Happily though, Michael Bay has a two picture option on it.
..oh hell no.
They'll say it was a pre-existing condition.
This is similar to the what happens with sodium acetate (used in re-usable hand warmers and such) which can't 'remember' how to crystallize until provided with a seed (the button trigger in a warmer) and then gives off heat as it crystallizes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_acetate#Heating_pad
I believe it would have to go to DARPA since they 'made' it. If it was to the "World Wide Web" (instead of the "Internet") it would probably go to Tim Berners-Lee or CERN.
No, the glass was constructed too large by 100%
You mean 'Nexus One?'
It's too bad they don't have a system like UT2004 and UT3 have - where users can run their own server off their system.
yeah that would be as bad as using a mouse... :)
Oh...
Well, I'll put my socks back on then...
This story is soooo fake! It starts off:
“Case report: The patient was a 15-year-old girl employed in a local bar..."
I mean, do they really expect us to believe a 15 year-old got a job working in a bar?
"...semi-conductive..."
I scribble my results down,
with graphite pencil.
Why?
October is already "Graphene On Silicon Substrate Month"
Don't you ever go to any of the "Graphene Grope" parties?
Don't you hang decorative substrate sheets all over the house and on your front door?
Of course, it's irritating when the trash pick-up and mail are delayed because of the GOSS Holidays, but hey... it's a such a great tradition for the kids...