You know, I'm fairly certain (at least I hope so) that you're either joking or just being a troll (in which case, I'm falling directly into your trap), but as (maybe one of the few) people on this site that were also previously in the military, I'm just about as offended as humanly possible at your comment above.
Not everyone that goes into the military is a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal, and quite a few of us are above average in terms of intelligence. I spent 6 years in the Navy, and I (nor anyone I knew) didn't shoot, rape OR pillage anyone.
On a site like this one, where people from the outside would presume everyone is a pasty and pimply 34 year old living in their parent's basement, I really would expect (just a little) a little more tolerance and less assumption from the people involved.
So, if NY informs MD that you're a wanted fugitive for violating NY tax law (after they somehow indict you or issue an arrest warrant for a crime), and then asks MD to extradite you, what do you imagine the reaction from MD will be?
Since we're talking about US constitutional principles here, what about Section 2 of Article 4 of that document.. It says (In relative part):
"A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime."
Sounds to me like MD would be forced to hand you over to NY unless you managed to fight extradition.
How about letting him just finish his question? Wouldn't that have been easier and less dangerous for everyone involved?
Kerry wasn't asking for him to be removed (In fact, he said from the stage that he wanted to answer the question..), so I don't really see why they had to take ANY action against this kid.
As such, if a perp isn't giving the complaince requested
First off, "A perp"?? Really? Are you a cop or do you just play one on TV?
Secondly, being bodily removed from a question and answer session for asking an admittedly obnoxious question (but one that JK explicitly said he wanted to answer from the stage) is hardly an example of "requesting compliance" (or complaince, in you-speak).
At what point were the cops in danger? Was he going to use the microphone in his hand as a weapon? Maybe he was going to hit them with the book?
This was a plain use of non-proportional force on the part of these campus police officers. They should be ashamed that they are mirroring the tactics used by Bush and his Secret Service to remove people attempting to express any view not in step with his world view (http://tinyurl.com/27cg7a).
Organised labor can't make someone worth 100 bucks an hour if he only does 50 bucks worth of work a day.
Slight correction needed..
"Organised labor can't make someone worth 100 bucks an hour if he only does 50 bucks worth of work a day. Unless they live in France, in which case the prefecture subsidizes that persons employer to cover the other Euro36.64 ($50*732736)".
PS- Why can't/. render the euro symbol at Alt-0128??
Screw everyone else for the benefit of the stockholders.
You know, I normally like to stay out of these pseudo-populist threads about the evils of big corporate America (And yes, I work for "The Big Evil Bank of Doom", whose name I will not mention but whose initials are "JPMC"), but I have to say that I find it really disingenuous of the people that read and post here to complain about big companies doing what they're supposed to do, which is to make as much profit as they can for their owners, usually in the guise of stockholders. I would hazard to guess that a very large percentage of the/. population either directly works for or is in some way connected to large corporate entities whose function is to make a profit for whomever owns it.
Just about every publicly traded, non "non-profit" corporation (Like Wal-Mart, and not like, say, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting) has a fiduciary responsibility to its shareholders to maximize profits. To do otherwise is actually something that shareholders can (and frequently do) sue over. If a corporation wants to act in an "Green" or "Socially Responsible" or a "Whatever buzzword sounds good here" way, that's up to them, but the bottom line is always going to be making a profit.
Wal-Mart just happens to be better at it than most. Yes, the reason that this is so is that they use their sheer mass to intimidate or marginalize upstream producers to either meet their cost target or to take their (increasingly important and hard to ignore) business elsewhere.
At the end of the day, those tactics are perfectly legal and in accordance with normal business practices used everywhere. Gas stations lower their prices to stay competitive with local prices.. Where a community is serviced by only one gas station, its prices are usually higher. This is because it uses its place within the "supply and demand" continuum to charge what the market will bear. If they set their prices too high, people will drive the extra 1 or 10 or 50 miles to go to someone whose prices make the extra drive economical.
To suggest that Wal-Mart is doing something immoral by using whatever tactics it can to maximize its profits is just ignoring the reality of business practices everywhere... It is just that Wal-Mart is so much huger than virtually anyone else that this effect is visible..
Pillorying Wal-Mart for its business practices is unfair unless you're going to demand that EVERY business out there sets it prices to something that is "fair", and that they all offer whatever people perceive to be a "reasonable" set of corporate benefits to everyone.
Dare I say it, but that sounds an awful lot like pure-t socialism.
"i understand the point of your post, are you trying to be a spelling nazi and pick on the "your" or that the nick "timmarhy" isn't an acurate enough representation of the timmy character from south park (since after all that's what the nick is a tribute to)"
Wow.. So on top of it all, your attempt at a rebuttal also lacks proper capitalization, misspells "accurate", and exhibits an almost complete lack of punctuation marks (making it a really long "run-on" sentence). That, plus the original spelling thing, would tend to indicate a complete disregard for grammar and spelling norms. That doesn't mean that you are stupid, but it does indicate a lack of "attention to detail".
Is it possible that you're trying to make a point with all of this?
I have to say that I imagine you're the exception then.
I listen to all kinds of music all the time, but it occurred to me the other day that not only have I not purchased a CD in something like 5 years, I have not listened to a CD (meaning an actual round piece of plastic) in about the same amount of time.
At the risk of seeming trollish here, I have to believe (And the RIAAs #s, in terms of declining CD sales [exaggerated as they may be] seem to agree with me on this) that most people that download music (legally or "otherwise") simply are not buying pre-pressed CDs anymore. It is simply easier to "acquire" the music you want to listen to and either make your own CD (in either its native format or in the form of an "MP3 CD") or copy it to your Ipodesque portable music player.
Full album sales are declining precipitously, and with the dearth of "Story Albums" (Queensryche's "Operation Mindcrime", for example) out there, this trend can only continue. The more and more common appearance of AUX input jacks in cars can only presage a continuation of this trend.
For whatever it's worth, I have it on very good authority (although, as slashdotters, I assume you will dismiss this claim out of hand..) that they're already using Tivo-branded DVRs in New Hampshire (as a test market).. I have this information directly from the mouth of a woman that works for Comcast (on the DVR project) here in PA.
At the moment, I have the Comcast DVR that I assume you're talking about above (silver, with a yellow LED display), and yes, it truly sucks. More annoying (to me, anyway) than the Fast-Forward thing you're talking about above is the fact that there is no apparent way to set up a "series recording" that will only record shows on a certain day of the week or time of day. I don't need three versions of the same damn show, but since any new show (in other words, not a repeat from days or weeks before) gets recorded, this is exactly what happens... I switched over from my ReplayTV (I have an old old one, a 4160, with a 320 GB replacement drive) to allow for HDTV and dual-tuners, but I sometimes seriously regret doing it.
Just curious.. Where were you when you saw the ships?
The only shipyard that I know of (in PA) with Naval assets is visible off the right hand side (as you're heading North on 95) of the Girard point bridge in Philadelphia..
Assuming that is what you saw, that particular bunch of ships (Not just destroyers, btw.. lots of auxiliaries and old WW-II era heavy cruisers) is part of the "mothball fleet" at the old Philly Naval Shipyard (Now privately owned by Aker shipyards).
Are you seriously trying to insult someone on their intelligence by calling them a "Moran"?
What's a "Moran"? The only dictionary entry for "Moran" is a smallish (285 people as of the 1990 census..) town in Kansas... surely you're not trying to call this person a small town in Kansas..
Do you mean "Moron"? If you're going to attempt to criticize someone's intellect, at least make sure that the insult you're attempting to use is actually spelled correctly..
I figure that EVERYONE that works for Apple signs some sort of NDA, so it is reasonable to assume that only a person on the inside would know these "code names" or details of an as yet unannounced product, and to therefore conclude that the person who leaked the info MUST have signed a NDA.
Just a series of guesses and assumptions, but I think they are well reasoned ones...
Just curious.. IANAL, but I'm wondering if an affirmative defense to a charge of illegal filesharing is to operate an open wireless AP on my connection..
Unless I'm highly mistaken, I have no legal obligation to monitor, restrict or police my connection for what *OTHERS* might be using it for.. and since the IP that a ISP/Content owner might have as a result of an investigation only proves that *SOMEONE* behind the wireless AP/Router was doing something hinky, isn't the burden on the "infringee" to prove that it was *ME* doing the illegal D/Ling?
Please forgive if this has been asked/answered elsewhere, but this has always seemed to be a slam-dunk defense.
Its impressive b/c, unlike reactors aboard SSN/SSBN/CVNs, there won't be an ocean of water around it to pull water in from, and it won't be moving fast enough to create the convection currents that allow (at least submarine) reactors to function without pumps.
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You know, I'm fairly certain (at least I hope so) that you're either joking or just being a troll (in which case, I'm falling directly into your trap), but as (maybe one of the few) people on this site that were also previously in the military, I'm just about as offended as humanly possible at your comment above.
Not everyone that goes into the military is a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal, and quite a few of us are above average in terms of intelligence. I spent 6 years in the Navy, and I (nor anyone I knew) didn't shoot, rape OR pillage anyone.
On a site like this one, where people from the outside would presume everyone is a pasty and pimply 34 year old living in their parent's basement, I really would expect (just a little) a little more tolerance and less assumption from the people involved.
So, if NY informs MD that you're a wanted fugitive for violating NY tax law (after they somehow indict you or issue an arrest warrant for a crime), and then asks MD to extradite you, what do you imagine the reaction from MD will be?
Since we're talking about US constitutional principles here, what about Section 2 of Article 4 of that document.. It says (In relative part):
"A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime."
Sounds to me like MD would be forced to hand you over to NY unless you managed to fight extradition.
Please note that IANAL, or even an 1L.
Thanks, Mr. Friedman.. :)
How about letting him just finish his question? Wouldn't that have been easier and less dangerous for everyone involved?
Kerry wasn't asking for him to be removed (In fact, he said from the stage that he wanted to answer the question..), so I don't really see why they had to take ANY action against this kid.
First off, "A perp"?? Really? Are you a cop or do you just play one on TV?
Secondly, being bodily removed from a question and answer session for asking an admittedly obnoxious question (but one that JK explicitly said he wanted to answer from the stage) is hardly an example of "requesting compliance" (or complaince, in you-speak).
At what point were the cops in danger? Was he going to use the microphone in his hand as a weapon? Maybe he was going to hit them with the book?
This was a plain use of non-proportional force on the part of these campus police officers. They should be ashamed that they are mirroring the tactics used by Bush and his Secret Service to remove people attempting to express any view not in step with his world view (http://tinyurl.com/27cg7a).
Slight correction needed..
"Organised labor can't make someone worth 100 bucks an hour if he only does 50 bucks worth of work a day. Unless they live in France, in which case the prefecture subsidizes that persons employer to cover the other Euro36.64 ($50*732736)".
PS- Why can't /. render the euro symbol at Alt-0128??
You know, I normally like to stay out of these pseudo-populist threads about the evils of big corporate America (And yes, I work for "The Big Evil Bank of Doom", whose name I will not mention but whose initials are "JPMC"), but I have to say that I find it really disingenuous of the people that read and post here to complain about big companies doing what they're supposed to do, which is to make as much profit as they can for their owners, usually in the guise of stockholders. I would hazard to guess that a very large percentage of the
Just about every publicly traded, non "non-profit" corporation (Like Wal-Mart, and not like, say, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting) has a fiduciary responsibility to its shareholders to maximize profits. To do otherwise is actually something that shareholders can (and frequently do) sue over. If a corporation wants to act in an "Green" or "Socially Responsible" or a "Whatever buzzword sounds good here" way, that's up to them, but the bottom line is always going to be making a profit.
Wal-Mart just happens to be better at it than most. Yes, the reason that this is so is that they use their sheer mass to intimidate or marginalize upstream producers to either meet their cost target or to take their (increasingly important and hard to ignore) business elsewhere.
At the end of the day, those tactics are perfectly legal and in accordance with normal business practices used everywhere. Gas stations lower their prices to stay competitive with local prices.. Where a community is serviced by only one gas station, its prices are usually higher. This is because it uses its place within the "supply and demand" continuum to charge what the market will bear. If they set their prices too high, people will drive the extra 1 or 10 or 50 miles to go to someone whose prices make the extra drive economical.
To suggest that Wal-Mart is doing something immoral by using whatever tactics it can to maximize its profits is just ignoring the reality of business practices everywhere... It is just that Wal-Mart is so much huger than virtually anyone else that this effect is visible..
Pillorying Wal-Mart for its business practices is unfair unless you're going to demand that EVERY business out there sets it prices to something that is "fair", and that they all offer whatever people perceive to be a "reasonable" set of corporate benefits to everyone.
Dare I say it, but that sounds an awful lot like pure-t socialism.
Sorry.. have to...
"Hanging too good for im', burnings too good for im', he should be torn into little bits and pieces and buried alive!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDHFCKD8wgo&NR
No mod points, but a virtual +1 Informative...
Dude!
Excellent site.
"interperate"
Do you mean interpret?
"i understand the point of your post, are you trying to be a spelling nazi and pick on the "your" or that the nick "timmarhy" isn't an acurate enough representation of the timmy character from south park (since after all that's what the nick is a tribute to)"
Wow.. So on top of it all, your attempt at a rebuttal also lacks proper capitalization, misspells "accurate", and exhibits an almost complete lack of punctuation marks (making it a really long "run-on" sentence). That, plus the original spelling thing, would tend to indicate a complete disregard for grammar and spelling norms. That doesn't mean that you are stupid, but it does indicate a lack of "attention to detail".
Is it possible that you're trying to make a point with all of this?
There is no law behind the rating system, it is up to the individual movie theater (or chain) to enforce those recommendations .
At the risk of seeming trollish here, I have to believe (And the RIAAs #s, in terms of declining CD sales [exaggerated as they may be] seem to agree with me on this) that most people that download music (legally or "otherwise") simply are not buying pre-pressed CDs anymore. It is simply easier to "acquire" the music you want to listen to and either make your own CD (in either its native format or in the form of an "MP3 CD") or copy it to your Ipodesque portable music player.
Full album sales are declining precipitously, and with the dearth of "Story Albums" (Queensryche's "Operation Mindcrime", for example) out there, this trend can only continue. The more and more common appearance of AUX input jacks in cars can only presage a continuation of this trend.
For whatever it's worth, I have it on very good authority (although, as slashdotters, I assume you will dismiss this claim out of hand..) that they're already using Tivo-branded DVRs in New Hampshire (as a test market).. I have this information directly from the mouth of a woman that works for Comcast (on the DVR project) here in PA.
At the moment, I have the Comcast DVR that I assume you're talking about above (silver, with a yellow LED display), and yes, it truly sucks. More annoying (to me, anyway) than the Fast-Forward thing you're talking about above is the fact that there is no apparent way to set up a "series recording" that will only record shows on a certain day of the week or time of day. I don't need three versions of the same damn show, but since any new show (in other words, not a repeat from days or weeks before) gets recorded, this is exactly what happens... I switched over from my ReplayTV (I have an old old one, a 4160, with a 320 GB replacement drive) to allow for HDTV and dual-tuners, but I sometimes seriously regret doing it.
Just a quibble, but since we're all seeming to quibble here..
You wrote: "**AA"s
Wouldn't it be more proper to use "??AA"s
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Make sure you send you $.000019 to the RIAA (Or SoundExchage, their shill) by EOD to avoid further penalties for quoting KMFDM.. :)
Just curious.. Where were you when you saw the ships?
:)
The only shipyard that I know of (in PA) with Naval assets is visible off the right hand side (as you're heading North on 95) of the Girard point bridge in Philadelphia..
Assuming that is what you saw, that particular bunch of ships (Not just destroyers, btw.. lots of auxiliaries and old WW-II era heavy cruisers) is part of the "mothball fleet" at the old Philly Naval Shipyard (Now privately owned by Aker shipyards).
Not really a threat..
Why in the world would anyone, much less a reader of /. , use MSIE for anything?
Are you seriously trying to insult someone on their intelligence by calling them a "Moran"?
What's a "Moran"? The only dictionary entry for "Moran" is a smallish (285 people as of the 1990 census..) town in Kansas... surely you're not trying to call this person a small town in Kansas..
Do you mean "Moron"? If you're going to attempt to criticize someone's intellect, at least make sure that the insult you're attempting to use is actually spelled correctly..
I figure that EVERYONE that works for Apple signs some sort of NDA, so it is reasonable to assume that only a person on the inside would know these "code names" or details of an as yet unannounced product, and to therefore conclude that the person who leaked the info MUST have signed a NDA.
Just a series of guesses and assumptions, but I think they are well reasoned ones...
Just curious.. IANAL, but I'm wondering if an affirmative defense to a charge of illegal filesharing is to operate an open wireless AP on my connection..
Unless I'm highly mistaken, I have no legal obligation to monitor, restrict or police my connection for what *OTHERS* might be using it for.. and since the IP that a ISP/Content owner might have as a result of an investigation only proves that *SOMEONE* behind the wireless AP/Router was doing something hinky, isn't the burden on the "infringee" to prove that it was *ME* doing the illegal D/Ling?
Please forgive if this has been asked/answered elsewhere, but this has always seemed to be a slam-dunk defense.
Its impressive b/c, unlike reactors aboard SSN/SSBN/CVNs, there won't be an ocean of water around it to pull water in from, and it won't be moving fast enough to create the convection currents that allow (at least submarine) reactors to function without pumps.
Binkleyz, ET2(SS), USN, Ret.
Shutdown.exe isn't part of the normal install of NT/XP/2K. You would need to have installed the Resource Kit for the OS you're using...
"It's not dumb. It's advaaaaaanced." "I'm gonna sing the Doom Song now!" "Aw, it likes me!"
Love the Zim reference..