You can oppose red light cameras on principle even if you don't own and never drive a car. You can oppose the TSA even if you never fly. Why can't you oppose this even if you don't consume *AA entertainment?
Ten thousand among a billion is not "all that common". Let's see, the population of Kuwait was something like 3 million at the end of the first Gulf War where there were 20 reported accidental deaths by celebratory gunfire. Say that happens three times a year (overestimating -- there was likely much more celebratory gunfire at the end of the first Gulf War than at any other time.) 60 deaths in 3 million scales up to 20k in a billion. Or, at US population of ~300 million that's 6000 deaths. That's on the order of the number that accidentally "fall to their death" annually in the US. Would you call lethal falls in the US common? So yes, celebratory gunfire/can/ kill or injure someone. So can having a piano dropped on your head. It's still damned unlikely though.
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While retaining your job. Scott Adams worked at Dilbert tirelessly until it was at a point where he could support himself with it, but that tipping point happened only after a lot of long days of hard work.
What do you do for passion? Whatever you do, be excellent at it and money will follow.
In general, they were labeled "troublemakers", "bullies", "class clowns" or any other of a number of meaningless epithets that did nothing to help them get ahead and allowed them to just play their role in society before becoming some blue-collar laborer or small time criminal.
Yes, everyone you've met on Adderall (that you know of...) are addicted to it. Everyone I've met on Adderall can fly like Superman. What does anecdotal evidence (especially that which is uncited) have to do with it again?
If you hold a principled opposition to PayPal why don't you send a nice email to the R-Pi foundation stating your objections and reasons. I'm sure they'll take it under advisement -- they seem very well collected on other matters so far.
I would not be surprised if they actually changed merchant bank based on responses from users. In fact, I'll email them right now!
That's why multiple groups, including the Foundation itself, plan to manufacture cases. Isn't that wonderful? (Cases will not be available from the Foundation at launch.)
One reason for the inaccuracy in date of birth is that East Asia has a different method of reckoning age. As such, a person's "age" can be represented by a number up to two more than it would be in the West. So if you're told that someone is "23" and you don't know their birth date and don't know if that's the "traditional" age or their "Western" age then the best you can do is narrow it down to one of three years.
Also, specifically in China, but to an extent the rest of East Asia, there's value in your Zodiac sign, which is determined by your year of birth. So there/would/ be incentive to lie about it anyway.
So yeah, ignore other cultures and it's really freaking weird and unreasonable.
The basic Steam DRM (not the games that have additional DRM such as SecuROM) is unintrusive (it doesn't do any crazy driver stuff or rootkitting) and has a very simple go-offline mode. (Yes, that does have to be activated while online but it's easy to do and works for all your games that support it.) Also, in the event of Valve going under only one system, Steam, has to be patched to get rid of the DRM, not every individual game.
Is Steam DRM still DRM? Yes. It is, however, nearly invisible and only rarely causes any issue unlike most other DRM schemes. Also, I find that the value of the Steam ecology is worth more to me than the negative value of the Steam DRM. You may not. The "quality" of Ubisoft games, however, are not worth the negative value of the absurd Ubisoft DRM.
Except that thieves working on locks are at risk during the whole time they are handling the locky bits, so the longer spent with locks the greater the chance of them going away empty handed. With DRM the "thief" isn't at risk while he's undoing the DRM whereas the customer is at risk of the DRM failing out from under him. Your car analogy is incorrect because it assumes that cracking DRM is risky when it is not.
Pay us $3k and we'll go away or pay $3k to defend yourself in court where the best case scenario is you're out $3k and time and the worst case scenario is you're up for $100k in damages...
You're right. It's not extortion. It has to be against the law to be extortion.
Wrong. They charge you for the bullet they spent on the puppy. And the gas for the chainsaw. If you weren't doing anything wrong they wouldn't have shown up at your door, now would they?
To be fair, the whole reform bill is not merely some insurance company bailout. It does include policies that incentivize prevention over procedures. That is to say, it includes provisions whereby hospitals and health care officials can get paid based on keeping people from needing surgery and drugs instead of only paying based on what tests and surgery are performed and what drugs are prescribed. Health is more than just treatment.
Of course both sides of the aisle completely ignore this part of the debate, choosing to focus on how to pay for the bill or how many additional people get covered because of it instead.
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You can oppose red light cameras on principle even if you don't own and never drive a car. You can oppose the TSA even if you never fly. Why can't you oppose this even if you don't consume *AA entertainment?
Just dropping in to say that I have a jumbo jet that gets 200 miles per gallon. It also includes a jacuzzi in the back, not that I use it.
Bandwidth cap, cost per GB over that cap, location and provider, please?
Ten thousand among a billion is not "all that common". Let's see, the population of Kuwait was something like 3 million at the end of the first Gulf War where there were 20 reported accidental deaths by celebratory gunfire. Say that happens three times a year (overestimating -- there was likely much more celebratory gunfire at the end of the first Gulf War than at any other time.) 60 deaths in 3 million scales up to 20k in a billion. Or, at US population of ~300 million that's 6000 deaths. That's on the order of the number that accidentally "fall to their death" annually in the US. Would you call lethal falls in the US common? So yes, celebratory gunfire /can/ kill or injure someone. So can having a piano dropped on your head. It's still damned unlikely though.
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While retaining your job. Scott Adams worked at Dilbert tirelessly until it was at a point where he could support himself with it, but that tipping point happened only after a lot of long days of hard work.
What do you do for passion? Whatever you do, be excellent at it and money will follow.
In general, they were labeled "troublemakers", "bullies", "class clowns" or any other of a number of meaningless epithets that did nothing to help them get ahead and allowed them to just play their role in society before becoming some blue-collar laborer or small time criminal.
Yes, everyone you've met on Adderall (that you know of...) are addicted to it. Everyone I've met on Adderall can fly like Superman. What does anecdotal evidence (especially that which is uncited) have to do with it again?
Considering how those that are actually being prescribed Aderall and need it to function are the most likely to be affected by this, I do.
Black is not a color when talking about art. Black /is/ a color when talking about anything else.
The domain name is, arguably, the more valuable part. If I wanted to buy Walmart.com it's not because I like their webapp.
If you hold a principled opposition to PayPal why don't you send a nice email to the R-Pi foundation stating your objections and reasons. I'm sure they'll take it under advisement -- they seem very well collected on other matters so far. I would not be surprised if they actually changed merchant bank based on responses from users. In fact, I'll email them right now!
(Addendum because I can't edit... s/possibly/if not then/)
Release has always been slated at "hopefully" Q4 2011, "possibly" Q1 2012.
That's why multiple groups, including the Foundation itself, plan to manufacture cases. Isn't that wonderful? (Cases will not be available from the Foundation at launch.)
From what I understand it'll be Google employees doing the hanging, so yeah, they probably will have Google branded jackets and trucks.
Can the US get that law, too?
One reason for the inaccuracy in date of birth is that East Asia has a different method of reckoning age. As such, a person's "age" can be represented by a number up to two more than it would be in the West. So if you're told that someone is "23" and you don't know their birth date and don't know if that's the "traditional" age or their "Western" age then the best you can do is narrow it down to one of three years.
/would/ be incentive to lie about it anyway.
Also, specifically in China, but to an extent the rest of East Asia, there's value in your Zodiac sign, which is determined by your year of birth. So there
So yeah, ignore other cultures and it's really freaking weird and unreasonable.
The basic Steam DRM (not the games that have additional DRM such as SecuROM) is unintrusive (it doesn't do any crazy driver stuff or rootkitting) and has a very simple go-offline mode. (Yes, that does have to be activated while online but it's easy to do and works for all your games that support it.) Also, in the event of Valve going under only one system, Steam, has to be patched to get rid of the DRM, not every individual game.
Is Steam DRM still DRM? Yes. It is, however, nearly invisible and only rarely causes any issue unlike most other DRM schemes. Also, I find that the value of the Steam ecology is worth more to me than the negative value of the Steam DRM. You may not. The "quality" of Ubisoft games, however, are not worth the negative value of the absurd Ubisoft DRM.
Except that thieves working on locks are at risk during the whole time they are handling the locky bits, so the longer spent with locks the greater the chance of them going away empty handed. With DRM the "thief" isn't at risk while he's undoing the DRM whereas the customer is at risk of the DRM failing out from under him. Your car analogy is incorrect because it assumes that cracking DRM is risky when it is not.
Pay us $3k and we'll go away or pay $3k to defend yourself in court where the best case scenario is you're out $3k and time and the worst case scenario is you're up for $100k in damages...
You're right. It's not extortion. It has to be against the law to be extortion.
That would require them knowing how to spell "declarative" though.
Wrong. They charge you for the bullet they spent on the puppy. And the gas for the chainsaw. If you weren't doing anything wrong they wouldn't have shown up at your door, now would they?
Those dastardly squirrels. They always gave me the creeps. Now I know why -- they're plotting our dooooooooooom!
To be fair, the whole reform bill is not merely some insurance company bailout. It does include policies that incentivize prevention over procedures. That is to say, it includes provisions whereby hospitals and health care officials can get paid based on keeping people from needing surgery and drugs instead of only paying based on what tests and surgery are performed and what drugs are prescribed. Health is more than just treatment.
Of course both sides of the aisle completely ignore this part of the debate, choosing to focus on how to pay for the bill or how many additional people get covered because of it instead.
Michael Chertoff (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Chertoff#Body_Scanners) is the #1 suspect.
Wouldn't that more be NPH-ard?