Yup; I went to one years ago when I threw my back out, and it's thanks to his work that I'm not stuck taking narco's for the rest of my life.
Anyway, you can probably live 30 or 40 years with a narcotics dependence. That's a lot better than you'll do if you stop moving around at all and stay in bed.
Seems "better" is subjective in this regard... Personally, I'm not sure I would prefer living in a perpetual, drug-induced haze.
A client of mine has agreed to let me add the code to the site for his gun shop... couldn't think of a more appropriate industry to jump to the defense of the First Amendment.
80 mg Oxycontin tablets / month (suitable only for a seriously terminal cancer patient)
I have back pain, you insensitive clod. BACK PAIN It hurts!
So go see a chiropractor.
It kinda surprises me how many "smart people" don't seem to realize that developing a heroin addiction isn't going to do shit to fix whatever's causing you pain.
It's kind of surprising home many smart people think that doctors and chiropractors can do anything for certain types of neck and back problems. I have a friend who hurt her back playing college basketball. She had 4 surgeries that just made her back worse every time. She takes narcotics because she needs something for the pain. Otherwise she'd probably want to kill herself. Is she an addict? Certainly. But you can't take narcotics long term without becoming physically addicted. It is physiologically impossible. That doesn't mean she is abusing them and out on the street trying to supplement her prescriptions. Also, heroine is an opiate but not all opiates are heroine.
basically, wiley has two choices at what price to set the textbooks at in thailand -
Price A - low price that thais can afford. Price B - USA price or near to it
with price A, they can engage in fair competition in the thai market and earn a fair profit. at this price, they dont have too much to fear from piracy.
this ruling basically compels them to either sell in thailand (a presumably much smaller market than the usa) at a price closer to price B or to make economically useless changes to their textbooks to make them unsaleable in the USA, such as printing them only in the thai language. or, they can do even worse stuff like arguing for import tarriffs from thailand to the usa on books.
Yea, because, you know, not ass-raping US consumers just because they can is definitely not an option...
Seriously, if they can sell the book for $25 US in Thailand and still turn a profit, there is no legitimate reason the same book could not be sold for the same price in the US.
No reason other than pure, unadulterated greed, anyway.
Blood/conflict diamonds are mined by people who are very oppressed. One could argue that many things from China are created by people who are very oppressed (low pay, terrible work conditions, high suicide rates, etc.).
I dunno, "Blood iPhone" seems like a term that would just encourage hipsters to buy even more of the damnable things...
Caveat: I agree, wholeheartedly, with your position.
Without it any large scale redevelopment project would be impossible. Any old lady that wants to die in the house she has lived in all her life can essentially bring the whole thing to a halt.
And what is wrong with that? It is her house. She has lived there her whole life. Why should she need to give it up because someone else wants to make a few bucks? I think the old lady who owns the land should have more rights to it than some developer that really, really wishes it owned the land.
The why is easy. All it takes is one militia that goes to far to have untold death and destruction. Our government has checks and balances innate to its structure that are designed to limit abuse(not even counting the whole voting thing). There's no reason to assume the same about a militia.
Heh.
Optimism in this regard would be cute, if not so dangerous.
I suspect they were primarily concerned with the adverse effect suspending the first sale doctrine would have on currently legitimate business. Surely ending the first sale doctrine overseas would benefit the publishers, but it would hurt a lot of other companies too.
I doubt the rights of the individual ever came up.
Individual == A Person, right?
According to the Citizen's United case, A Corporation now == A Person, right?
Thus, by the transitive property, A Corporation must == A Person.
Not that I agree with the concept (much to the contrary), but according to the current iteration of "justice" in this country, corporate rights are individual rights.
I take it that you're serious. Where do you have to show ID for over the counter cold medications?
Missouri.
Actually, that's not completely true; the full disclosure is that you have to show ID, give your address and phone number, have your name added to the database, and you get a little check-mark next to your name, along with the quantity of Pseudoephedrine you purchased. Try to buy too much in too short a period of time (the amounts and timeframe are, of course, unpublished information), and you get a knock from the friendly neighborhood Sheriff, wanting to know where your meth lab is.
As it's absolutely fucking ridiculous to be treated like a damn criminal just for having a case of the sniffles, I tend to forgo the medication these days and just tough it out.
The only time that I can recall showing ID when picking up a prescription, was for some feminine stuff the wife needed.
Ready for some irony? They never card me when I go pick up prescriptions for my wife. Ever.
80 mg Oxycontin tablets / month (suitable only for a seriously terminal cancer patient)
I have back pain, you insensitive clod. BACK PAIN It hurts!
So go see a chiropractor.
It kinda surprises me how many "smart people" don't seem to realize that developing a heroin addiction isn't going to do shit to fix whatever's causing you pain.
A fedex letter sent to their legal department would probably have been looked at.
... and subsequently discarded.
It seems, based on my experience, that there's only 2 criteria to getting hired at AT&T - 1) you have to be a jerk, and B) you're not allowed to show any amount of competence.
I agree that cost doesn't necessarily equate to fiscal transactions - I'm just saying that for me, and for many other people, the coin google works in is on which has value to google, but not to the consumer of the services
So, you don't value your privacy. That's a personal choice, and it's yours to make.
If you consider that a particular currency has no value, then a service that requires you to pay with that currency *is* free to you.
Your personal opinion (which is subjective) as to whether or not something has value does not change the absolute (objective) fact that the services provided by Google are done so in exchange for payment.
FYI, you may not find any fiscal value in your own private information, but Google sure as hell does, to the tune of several billion dollars a year.
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They have less poverty, less crime, less people in jail... I'll get modded down but compare their demographics to the US. Notice anything?
You mean, aside the attempted fallacy of equivocation?
A chiropractor?
Yup; I went to one years ago when I threw my back out, and it's thanks to his work that I'm not stuck taking narco's for the rest of my life.
Anyway, you can probably live 30 or 40 years with a narcotics dependence. That's a lot better than you'll do if you stop moving around at all and stay in bed.
Seems "better" is subjective in this regard... Personally, I'm not sure I would prefer living in a perpetual, drug-induced haze.
Well, said, dude. I concede the point to you.
Your effort at revisionism is an affront to history.
That's funny, considering that you just posited the exact same thought as I did, albeit without the links and in a far more verbose manner.
A client of mine has agreed to let me add the code to the site for his gun shop... couldn't think of a more appropriate industry to jump to the defense of the First Amendment.
80 mg Oxycontin tablets / month (suitable only for a seriously terminal cancer patient)
I have back pain, you insensitive clod. BACK PAIN It hurts!
So go see a chiropractor.
It kinda surprises me how many "smart people" don't seem to realize that developing a heroin addiction isn't going to do shit to fix whatever's causing you pain.
It's kind of surprising home many smart people think that doctors and chiropractors can do anything for certain types of neck and back problems. I have a friend who hurt her back playing college basketball. She had 4 surgeries that just made her back worse every time. She takes narcotics because she needs something for the pain. Otherwise she'd probably want to kill herself. Is she an addict? Certainly. But you can't take narcotics long term without becoming physically addicted. It is physiologically impossible. That doesn't mean she is abusing them and out on the street trying to supplement her prescriptions. Also, heroine is an opiate but not all opiates are heroine.
Outliers exist in all things.
Sorry 'bout your friend, that's gotta suck.
You look at our economy where we treat the symptom rather than curing the disease and you wonder why people do the same?
...
Touche, sir.
basically, wiley has two choices at what price to set the textbooks at in thailand -
Price A - low price that thais can afford.
Price B - USA price or near to it
with price A, they can engage in fair competition in the thai market and earn a fair profit. at this price, they dont have too much to fear from piracy.
this ruling basically compels them to either sell in thailand (a presumably much smaller market than the usa) at a price closer to price B or to make economically useless changes to their textbooks to make them unsaleable in the USA, such as printing them only in the thai language. or, they can do even worse stuff like arguing for import tarriffs from thailand to the usa on books.
Yea, because, you know, not ass-raping US consumers just because they can is definitely not an option...
Seriously, if they can sell the book for $25 US in Thailand and still turn a profit, there is no legitimate reason the same book could not be sold for the same price in the US.
No reason other than pure, unadulterated greed, anyway.
Blood/conflict diamonds are mined by people who are very oppressed. One could argue that many things from China are created by people who are very oppressed (low pay, terrible work conditions, high suicide rates, etc.).
I dunno, "Blood iPhone" seems like a term that would just encourage hipsters to buy even more of the damnable things...
this person didn't really buy the books for himself which is what the first sale doctrine is for?
Ah, no. Read it, it says absolutely nothing about the purpose of the purchase.
he had relatives buy books for the purpose of reselling them in a country where people have a lot more money
In other words, Capitalism at work.
i'm surprised SCOTUS didn't find for the publisher.
Really? You're surprised that the SCOTUS didn't declare capitalism illegal?
this is a pretty big expansion of the first sale doctrine
No, it's not.
Caveat: I agree, wholeheartedly, with your position.
Without it any large scale redevelopment project would be impossible. Any old lady that wants to die in the house she has lived in all her life can essentially bring the whole thing to a halt.
And what is wrong with that? It is her house. She has lived there her whole life. Why should she need to give it up because someone else wants to make a few bucks? I think the old lady who owns the land should have more rights to it than some developer that really, really wishes it owned the land.
This is the US - She doesn't own shit. Neither does anyone else.
The why is easy. All it takes is one militia that goes to far to have untold death and destruction. Our government has checks and balances innate to its structure that are designed to limit abuse(not even counting the whole voting thing). There's no reason to assume the same about a militia.
Heh.
Optimism in this regard would be cute, if not so dangerous.
I'll say that the founding fathers would likely support corporate personhood.
Really? The same group of fellas who trashed a shitload of corporate property because they were pissed about how that corporation and the government colluded to screw them over?
Somehow I'm hard pressed to buy that one...
I suspect they were primarily concerned with the adverse effect suspending the first sale doctrine would have on currently legitimate business. Surely ending the first sale doctrine overseas would benefit the publishers, but it would hurt a lot of other companies too.
I doubt the rights of the individual ever came up.
Individual == A Person, right?
According to the Citizen's United case, A Corporation now == A Person, right?
Thus, by the transitive property, A Corporation must == A Person.
Not that I agree with the concept (much to the contrary), but according to the current iteration of "justice" in this country, corporate rights are individual rights.
Thought... and analytics.
I presume the IDL keeps track of which websites have the code, so they can say, "X number of web admins support our cause! FTW!"
I take it that you're serious. Where do you have to show ID for over the counter cold medications?
Missouri.
Actually, that's not completely true; the full disclosure is that you have to show ID, give your address and phone number, have your name added to the database, and you get a little check-mark next to your name, along with the quantity of Pseudoephedrine you purchased. Try to buy too much in too short a period of time (the amounts and timeframe are, of course, unpublished information), and you get a knock from the friendly neighborhood Sheriff, wanting to know where your meth lab is.
As it's absolutely fucking ridiculous to be treated like a damn criminal just for having a case of the sniffles, I tend to forgo the medication these days and just tough it out.
The only time that I can recall showing ID when picking up a prescription, was for some feminine stuff the wife needed.
Ready for some irony? They never card me when I go pick up prescriptions for my wife. Ever.
80 mg Oxycontin tablets / month (suitable only for a seriously terminal cancer patient)
I have back pain, you insensitive clod. BACK PAIN It hurts!
So go see a chiropractor.
It kinda surprises me how many "smart people" don't seem to realize that developing a heroin addiction isn't going to do shit to fix whatever's causing you pain.
What's wrong with using a made up language?
But seriously, Herman Miller was using the "Cispa" name for something before Congress.
Quick! To the Copyright Lawyer Cave!
I'll join up to, even though my site has an average daily traffic of somewhere between zero and.. aw, who the hell am I kidding - it's zero.
It's only because of two hundred years of bending the meaning 'for a good cause' that they've reached the point where they can do so.
This is why every time I hear a politician talk about "Interpreting the Constitution," I run like hell in the other direction.
A fedex letter sent to their legal department would probably have been looked at.
... and subsequently discarded.
It seems, based on my experience, that there's only 2 criteria to getting hired at AT&T - 1) you have to be a jerk, and B) you're not allowed to show any amount of competence.
These days... Well, I'm here for 40 hours, what more do you fuckers want from me? Actual productivity?
Meh, I'll leave that for the newbs who still have some ambition left to beat out of them.
When I had a job in industrial manufacturing before attending college, I would regularly work up to 100 hours a week.
Of course, I was a teenager fresh out of high school, enjoying the 18/hr straight time + time-and-a-half for overtime + double time for holidays.
Damn, but those were some bitchin' summers!
Hmm, sounds too good to be true.
Which means it most likely is.
I agree that cost doesn't necessarily equate to fiscal transactions - I'm just saying that for me, and for many other people, the coin google works in is on which has value to google, but not to the consumer of the services
So, you don't value your privacy. That's a personal choice, and it's yours to make.
If you consider that a particular currency has no value, then a service that requires you to pay with that currency *is* free to you.
Your personal opinion (which is subjective) as to whether or not something has value does not change the absolute (objective) fact that the services provided by Google are done so in exchange for payment.
FYI, you may not find any fiscal value in your own private information, but Google sure as hell does, to the tune of several billion dollars a year.