The Cold War was peace and harmony compared to this Islamic fundamentalist shit. This is fucking terrifying.
Oh please. The Cold War had the potential to destroy human life on this planet. Islamic fundamentalists killed 3000 people with one extremely lucky attack 10 years ago, and a handful here and there ever since.
You're more likely to die on the road because you're too afraid of terrorists (or the TSA, as the case may be) to fly than you are to die from terrorists. Grow a pair.
Android fans usually try to respond by telling me that I don't really need a high-res display. This is a losing argument â" once you've seen the new iPad in action, low-resolution tablets look crude in comparison
As far as I can tell, most people are happy with 1366x768 on a 15" screen. I know it's crap, you know it's crap, but most people could give a crap that it's crap. Giving people 2048x1536 on a 10" display is casting pearls before swine.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, Mesdames et Messieurs, Damen und Herren, from what was once an inarticulate mass of lifeless tissues, may I present a cultured, sophosticated, Man About Town..."
The idea that junk DNA accumulates on its own, only because of it's propensity to replicate is expected from evolution. If it replicates, and it's not selected against, it will accumulate. Some of it may have a function, and that which does have a function will be preserved, but that doesn't mean it all has a function.
If it were discovered that every single base pair in our DNA had a function, that would be very strong evidence against evolution by natural selection.
I never really understood what Mesa was. I thought it was what you installed if you wanted software rendering of OpenGL. If you wanted hardware rendering, you installed drivers for your hardware. But now Mesa is providing hardware accelerated OpenGL? What's the point if we have open source Intel drivers?
That's all the TSA is. Since the implementation of gate rape, more people have been driving instead of flying. Since driving is more dangerous than flying, this has lead to an increase in deaths on the road. Specifially, 1,200 deaths per year can be attributed to the TSA, and that was the estimate in 2005. I can only imagine it's gotten worse since then.
What this means, if you add up the numbers is that Janet Napolitano is responsible for more American deaths than Osama Bin Laden ever was. We are literally ruled by terrorists.
MTG deserves vitriol, not because it's geeky, but because it's a money sink. Why spend a lot of money buying deck after deck when you can buy one RPG rule book and play indefinitely?
If you want to play cards, we can play bridge or euchre, or hearts or spades, or bullshit. I'll even buy a special deck so we can play Uno. But what I won't do is buy deck after deck looking for the cards that give me an advantage. That's what's objectionable about MTG.
Are you stupid? You bold "case by case" as if it were the defining factor, but if you actually read that sentence it's clear that fines can be both predetermined or set case by case. You haven't even made a point worth responding to. Try again.
Yeah, because believing that we can run out of finite resources is the mark of a 'nutter'.
We use oil for power because it's a cheap and easy way to power cars; if it becomes less cheap or easy, we'll move to something else.
We use oil for power because it's orders of magnitude cheaper and easier to produce at the scales we need. We'll move on to something else, but that something else won't be nearly as desirable.
The Earth is not a closed system: the Sun provides a remarkable amount of "free" power, far beyond what 10 billion people would consume at American levels.
Sure, if you completely ignore the practical problems with paving half the country with solar panels.
The only childish nonsense here is your insistence that because we have cheap power today we will be able to have cheap power indefinitely into the future. That's just not realistic.
Civil law is supposed to be about making the plaintiff whole again. Statutory damages are yet another dirty trick to implement punishment through civil law in order to avoid the protections in the constitution. The only difference between statutory damages and a fine is who gets paid, which is quite frankly irrelevant. It's a payment, as a consequence of breaking a law that was passed by the government, tried by the government, and enforced by the government. It's a fine, plain and simple and anyone who claims otherwise is a liar.
There is no growth in petroleum reserves, only growth in known petroleum reserves, which necessarily means shrinkage of undiscovered reserves. We've already used close to half of all the oil we can reasonably expect to exist in the world, and as you point out usage is still growing. Price manipulation may have drawn out the peak into a plateau, but we're going to hit a precipice eventually, sooner than you think.
Where in the 8th amendment does it distinguish between "punitive damages" and "statutory damages"? It appears to me that statutory damages have been invented by the courts as a way to work around the 8th amendment. They are operating under the fiction that if they call it something else, the restrictions against excessive fines does not apply.
Any honest person can see that this is a dishonest argument on the part of the judge. This sort of jurisprudence should simply not be tolerated.
Due process is guaranteed by the 5th and 14th amendments. The problem with this case is excessive fines, prohibited by the 8th amendment. Why wasn't this an issue in this appeal?
Every student in my wife's 2nd grade class qualifies for the free and reduced lunch program, which puts them all at or below the poverty level. And they all seem to have Nintendo DS's.
So all we really need is a graphic calculator cartridge for the DS.
1) LeakID admits they don't actually have any kind of ownership over the malware. LeakID gets sued for knowingly sending false C&D notices under DMCA (or equivalent, not a lawyer).
You misread the DMCA. All you have to attest to is that you represent a rights holder whose rights are allegedly infringed. Not "the" rights holder, "a" rights holder. If you represent any rights holder, you can allege anything you want, about any file anyhere, without even a good faith belief that it is accurate and that's a valid DMCA complaint.
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The Cold War was peace and harmony compared to this Islamic fundamentalist shit. This is fucking terrifying.
Oh please. The Cold War had the potential to destroy human life on this planet. Islamic fundamentalists killed 3000 people with one extremely lucky attack 10 years ago, and a handful here and there ever since.
You're more likely to die on the road because you're too afraid of terrorists (or the TSA, as the case may be) to fly than you are to die from terrorists. Grow a pair.
Android fans usually try to respond by telling me that I don't really need a high-res display. This is a losing argument â" once you've seen the new iPad in action, low-resolution tablets look crude in comparison
As far as I can tell, most people are happy with 1366x768 on a 15" screen. I know it's crap, you know it's crap, but most people could give a crap that it's crap. Giving people 2048x1536 on a 10" display is casting pearls before swine.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, Mesdames et Messieurs, Damen und Herren, from what was once an inarticulate mass of lifeless tissues, may I present a cultured, sophosticated, Man About Town..."
China's government policy of pushing economic growth at the expense of nothing.
Yeah, that's the US's job!
PCs have always been general purpose computers. The iPhone is not.
The idea that junk DNA accumulates on its own, only because of it's propensity to replicate is expected from evolution. If it replicates, and it's not selected against, it will accumulate. Some of it may have a function, and that which does have a function will be preserved, but that doesn't mean it all has a function.
If it were discovered that every single base pair in our DNA had a function, that would be very strong evidence against evolution by natural selection.
I never really understood what Mesa was. I thought it was what you installed if you wanted software rendering of OpenGL. If you wanted hardware rendering, you installed drivers for your hardware. But now Mesa is providing hardware accelerated OpenGL? What's the point if we have open source Intel drivers?
I don't get it.
That's all the TSA is. Since the implementation of gate rape, more people have been driving instead of flying. Since driving is more dangerous than flying, this has lead to an increase in deaths on the road. Specifially, 1,200 deaths per year can be attributed to the TSA, and that was the estimate in 2005. I can only imagine it's gotten worse since then.
What this means, if you add up the numbers is that Janet Napolitano is responsible for more American deaths than Osama Bin Laden ever was. We are literally ruled by terrorists.
MTG deserves vitriol, not because it's geeky, but because it's a money sink. Why spend a lot of money buying deck after deck when you can buy one RPG rule book and play indefinitely?
If you want to play cards, we can play bridge or euchre, or hearts or spades, or bullshit. I'll even buy a special deck so we can play Uno. But what I won't do is buy deck after deck looking for the cards that give me an advantage. That's what's objectionable about MTG.
It's extremely far fetched to hypothesize that any life form that shares our genetic code does not share a common ancestor with us.
Do I know this?
Are you stupid? You bold "case by case" as if it were the defining factor, but if you actually read that sentence it's clear that fines can be both predetermined or set case by case. You haven't even made a point worth responding to. Try again.
fine, fiÂne/fÄn/, /ËfÄ"nÄ/
Noun:
A sum of money exacted as a penalty by a court of law or other authority.
That's exactly what statutory damages are. Statutory damages are fines, anyone who says otherwise is a liar.
There's no myth about health effects it's just safe limits for exposure haven't been established
Incorrect. There is no evidence that non-ionizing EM radiation poses any health risks.
I assume you're a Peak Oil nutter.
Yeah, because believing that we can run out of finite resources is the mark of a 'nutter'.
We use oil for power because it's a cheap and easy way to power cars; if it becomes less cheap or easy, we'll move to something else.
We use oil for power because it's orders of magnitude cheaper and easier to produce at the scales we need. We'll move on to something else, but that something else won't be nearly as desirable.
The Earth is not a closed system: the Sun provides a remarkable amount of "free" power, far beyond what 10 billion people would consume at American levels.
Sure, if you completely ignore the practical problems with paving half the country with solar panels.
The only childish nonsense here is your insistence that because we have cheap power today we will be able to have cheap power indefinitely into the future. That's just not realistic.
"If we call it something else, the constitution doesn't apply". Is that really the only argument you have?
Civil law is supposed to be about making the plaintiff whole again. Statutory damages are yet another dirty trick to implement punishment through civil law in order to avoid the protections in the constitution. The only difference between statutory damages and a fine is who gets paid, which is quite frankly irrelevant. It's a payment, as a consequence of breaking a law that was passed by the government, tried by the government, and enforced by the government. It's a fine, plain and simple and anyone who claims otherwise is a liar.
There is no growth in petroleum reserves, only growth in known petroleum reserves, which necessarily means shrinkage of undiscovered reserves. We've already used close to half of all the oil we can reasonably expect to exist in the world, and as you point out usage is still growing. Price manipulation may have drawn out the peak into a plateau, but we're going to hit a precipice eventually, sooner than you think.
Where in the 8th amendment does it distinguish between "punitive damages" and "statutory damages"? It appears to me that statutory damages have been invented by the courts as a way to work around the 8th amendment. They are operating under the fiction that if they call it something else, the restrictions against excessive fines does not apply.
Any honest person can see that this is a dishonest argument on the part of the judge. This sort of jurisprudence should simply not be tolerated.
Due process is guaranteed by the 5th and 14th amendments. The problem with this case is excessive fines, prohibited by the 8th amendment. Why wasn't this an issue in this appeal?
we are overdue
Statistics do not work that way!
Every student in my wife's 2nd grade class qualifies for the free and reduced lunch program, which puts them all at or below the poverty level. And they all seem to have Nintendo DS's.
So all we really need is a graphic calculator cartridge for the DS.
Service providers can be sued for ignoring the DMCA complaint, they cannot be sued for ignoring a counterclaim.
If you've paid for service and they refuse to provide it, you can indeed sue them.
I agree entirely. The stock market exists to raise money for businesses. Anything else should be prohibited.
1) LeakID admits they don't actually have any kind of ownership over the malware. LeakID gets sued for knowingly sending false C&D notices under DMCA (or equivalent, not a lawyer).
You misread the DMCA. All you have to attest to is that you represent a rights holder whose rights are allegedly infringed. Not "the" rights holder, "a" rights holder. If you represent any rights holder, you can allege anything you want, about any file anyhere, without even a good faith belief that it is accurate and that's a valid DMCA complaint.