Mr. Buffett, of course, is permitted to give away his $310 million if he wants to.
I'll pass on my check, but I do have a single parent co-worker who could use the money. I've given her $350 this year, so perhaps Mr. Buffett could send her a check for $650, and give the remaining $350 to someone else.
I'll respect Mr. Buffett's point of view on this issue when he puts his money where his mouth is. If he feels he doesn't deserve the tax break, he can take care of it himself while waiting for the government to revoke the tax cuts.
4. Bring back Jeri Ryan. Walking plot-elements rock, occasionally.
Bring back Jeri Ryan. Bring Jeri Ryan to a swingers club and ask her to perform sexual acts in public. Drop out of Senate Race. Lather, rinse, and repeat.
Sure, they stole your user name. You're the one, you bastard. How dare you break those computers, and then come here to gloat about what you did. Better wear clean underwear and carry a toothbrush, because you're going straight to Camp X-Ray, Bucko.
I agree. I always thought that the Sontarans could kick Dalek ass any day of the week - especially the members of the Sontaran Special Space Services (the SSSS).
Sorry, but I believe you may be incorrect. Sure, the FCC says that the landlord does not have the right to restrict a tenant's use of wireless frequencies. But that does not necessarily mean that a landlord and a tenant may not enter into a contract under which the tenant agrees not to use wireless frequencies. The courts haven't held that the right to use wireless frequencies is inalienable. The FCC just says that this right cannot be taken away from you involuntarily by anyone other than the FCC.
I'm not going to look up the cite for you, but I recall in law school a case I read in which the Commerce Clause of the Constitution was used in a case where a Kentucky/Tennessee BBQ joint was discriminating against black patrons (they had to buy their BBQ at the back door of the kitchen, and were not allowed in the dining room). To make a long story short, the restaurant was held to be engaged in interstate commerce, because maybe some of its patrons came from out of state, and maybe some of the products they used were produced in other states.
This, of course, was from the glory days of the Commerce Clause. But no matter how conservative the court gets, the justices aren't going to get rid of the FCC's authority over the airwaves. This would be equivalent of states being allowed to regulate air transport, issue pilot's licenses, etc.
Ah, I get it. So the fact that the entire Senate, including all the Democrats and John Kerry (assuming he was in town that day) voted for this bill is a complete fluke, and it's all that bastard George W. Bush's fault, just like everything else concerning American politics that you diagree with.
Of course, you're lucky, because I'm sure that videotaping movies in the theater in Denmark is completely legal. Thank God we have people over here like Michael Moore, the kind sole who has allowed us to freely videotape and distribute Fahrenheit 9/11.
What if you could caravan food from places with a surplus to places that needed it?
This, I recall, was part of Civ II - trade caravans of food could either help build wonders, or provide food for a city that needs it. Using caravans, it was possible to create cities of much greater population than could be supported by that city's own farmers.
I don't mean to belittle the accomplishment but it shouldn't be overestimated either. It's a step, an important step, but a baby step, there are a lot more to go.
Ever see a baby's first steps? New parents call their friends, families, etc. They try to videotape it if they can. Baby steps are a very big deal, so you've answered your own question.
Having your computer be that much of a hassle is not my definition of easy. Not to mention that XP and win2k systems still seem to lockup or blue screen quite regularly despite the much touted "stability improvements"...
Sorry, but I haven't seen the BSOD in two years - and this is counting my computers at home and 16 at work, all running Windows XP. Please feel free to comment about Windows security issues, and the amount of resources XP gobbles up, and Microsoft's secret plan to take over the world, but the OS itself is very stable and does what it's supposed to do.
Think about it. If you've read the article, the text messages in question were from Kobe Bryant's alleged victim to two other people. These messages are directly relevant to the alleged victim's state of mind in the time period after the alleged rape, before the police were involved. Depending on their content, these messages could actually exonerate Kobe Bryant.
The real question is this: Should the alleged victim's right to private communications trump Kobe Bryant's right to a fair trial? To me it's no contest. Any communications from the victim to others could be admissible in court. If she had sent e-mails, left voice-mail messages still in the system, wrote letters, etc. All of these could be of evidentiary value.
Also, if you've read the article, the messages are not being handed over to Kobe Bryant's lawyers just yet. The judge is going to review them privately. If they are relevant, then the defense will get them to protect their client. If they are not relevant, Bryant's attorneys will never see them and the privacy rights of his accuser will not be violated at all.
I don't think that the overall quality of anime is particularly different from what it was five years ago. At that time, I was actually trading VHS tapes with a physician in Osaka. I mailed him the American dub of Sailor Moon and he sent me Evangelion (what a deal that was), and other programs taped off of Japanese TV.
One of the tapes he mailed me was his annual opening title/end credits tape of virtually all anime that was broadcast new that year. After watching about twenty minutes of this, I came to the conclusion that Sturgeon's law (90% of everything is crap) applies to Anime. By the end of the tape, I was even singing my own theme song, "Another f*cking show about a bunch of f*cking kids, f*ck f*ck f*ck f*ck f*ck".
And by the way, Edward rocks. She provided much-needed comic relief in Cowboy Beebop, until she was removed just prior to the last few episodes which were all chock full of angsty torture (and which were also very good).
GOD DAMNIT, IT'S SPELLED HANGAR. H-A-N-G-A-R. I've had this handle for 6 years, and damned if someone dosen't somehow mispell the thing. Same way every time. If you put yer coat on the thing, you call it a hanger, if you put a fuggin airplane or aliens or whatever else in it, it's a hangar.
I won't say that it's unfair. However, you need to understand that most of the protections of the Geneva convention don't apply to un-uniformed combatants, the use of which is contrary to international law. It's a bad idea, from a political and moral perspective, to simply shoot Iraqis found with weapons, but we could actually do it and not be in violation of the Geneva convention.
Just so you know, one of the principals of the Geneva conventions is that while each side is required to take measures to reduce the risk of civilian deaths, you can ALWAYS shoot the enemy. For example, it is perfectly permisible to bomb the hell out of a Surface to Air Missile launcher even if it's right next to an elementary school, a hospital, and a foreign embassy.
...as well as a "full version of the classic Ultima IX: Ascension."
Sorry, but Ultima VI (I think - it's the one that included "THOU HAST LOST AN EIGHTH!") was the last Ultima sequel that can be considered "classic". Ultima VII and VIII were so buggy as to be unplayable - by the time Ultima IX came out, the series had already been more or less ruined beyond repair.
I still miss the pre-Brittania time-travel and spaceships of Ultima II.
Yeah did anyone else notice that the article said 80 percent of HP's earnings come from printers and they lose money on the hardware and only make money on the ink? That would mean that 80 percent of HP's earnings come from ink.
This is NYT's idea of making money by being an innovator.
Well, the New York Times is in the business of selling ink too, so this shouldn't come as much of a surprise...
I have about 16 machines at the office here. The eMachines and the HP's have created trouble and extra work for me, from Day One. The Dells that I have (all purchased in the last two years) have given me no problems whatsoever.
I do agree, however, that I'm not going to be buying printers from Dell, or Lexmark for that matter. Although I'll have to say that the HP LaserJet 1100 was completely crap-tastic, and was actually the subject ot a class-action lawsuit (which was settled). On the whole, however, HP printers have been superior to the rest.
Because some of us remember when Star Trek wasn't just an excuse to sell toys and keep "camera men, editors, and janitors" in jobs.
Sorry, pal, but in Hollywood, it's always about the money. Always. Even if something is making money, it'll be brushed aside in an instant (Firefly, Futurama, too many examples to count) if the network executives think they've got another program that can make more money.
You have a very good point, but just so you know, it's not as if the plaintiff's lawyers had a contract paying them $2-3k/hour. It was a contingency fee case, which meant that if the case was lost, the lawyers would receive nothing at all.
Essentially, the lawyers funded the ligitation in return for a piece of the action. This is more or less typical in class action lawsuits where there are many plaintiffs who each have very little in damages. The masses or even the states weren't going to hire lawyers on an hourly basis to fight Microsoft, because it's not worth enough to each of them on an individual basis to take the risk. And if you say "there was no risk", you're kidding yourself. The fees earned by the plaintiff's lawyers (and no, I'm not one of them) don't even approach what the lawyers in the anti-smoking industry class action lawsuits earned.
The fees in these cases are approved by the judge as part of the class action settlement. The fees are calculated to take into account the money fronted by the attorneys and the risk of losing the case and getting nothing at all. In any particular case, and perhaps this one, the lawyer fees may be too high, but the lawyers here made this case. If it weren't for them, there would have been no case against Microsoft, and no settlement.
Just so you know, "legal" paper is more or less out of vogue in the legal profession in most states. Letter size is in. I use legal paper only on yellow notepads.
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Mr. Buffett, of course, is permitted to give away his $310 million if he wants to.
I'll pass on my check, but I do have a single parent co-worker who could use the money. I've given her $350 this year, so perhaps Mr. Buffett could send her a check for $650, and give the remaining $350 to someone else.
I'll respect Mr. Buffett's point of view on this issue when he puts his money where his mouth is. If he feels he doesn't deserve the tax break, he can take care of it himself while waiting for the government to revoke the tax cuts.
...post the bit.torrent link?
4. Bring back Jeri Ryan. Walking plot-elements rock, occasionally.
Bring back Jeri Ryan. Bring Jeri Ryan to a swingers club and ask her to perform sexual acts in public. Drop out of Senate Race. Lather, rinse, and repeat.
Sure, they stole your user name. You're the one, you bastard. How dare you break those computers, and then come here to gloat about what you did. Better wear clean underwear and carry a toothbrush, because you're going straight to Camp X-Ray, Bucko.
I agree. I always thought that the Sontarans could kick Dalek ass any day of the week - especially the members of the Sontaran Special Space Services (the SSSS).
Sorry, but I believe you may be incorrect. Sure, the FCC says that the landlord does not have the right to restrict a tenant's use of wireless frequencies. But that does not necessarily mean that a landlord and a tenant may not enter into a contract under which the tenant agrees not to use wireless frequencies. The courts haven't held that the right to use wireless frequencies is inalienable. The FCC just says that this right cannot be taken away from you involuntarily by anyone other than the FCC.
No, I am not a landlord, but I am a lawyer.
I'm not going to look up the cite for you, but I recall in law school a case I read in which the Commerce Clause of the Constitution was used in a case where a Kentucky/Tennessee BBQ joint was discriminating against black patrons (they had to buy their BBQ at the back door of the kitchen, and were not allowed in the dining room). To make a long story short, the restaurant was held to be engaged in interstate commerce, because maybe some of its patrons came from out of state, and maybe some of the products they used were produced in other states.
This, of course, was from the glory days of the Commerce Clause. But no matter how conservative the court gets, the justices aren't going to get rid of the FCC's authority over the airwaves. This would be equivalent of states being allowed to regulate air transport, issue pilot's licenses, etc.
Sorry, "kind soul" instead of "kind sole". But it's not my fault. I blame Dick Cheney for this one.
Ah, I get it. So the fact that the entire Senate, including all the Democrats and John Kerry (assuming he was in town that day) voted for this bill is a complete fluke, and it's all that bastard George W. Bush's fault, just like everything else concerning American politics that you diagree with.
Of course, you're lucky, because I'm sure that videotaping movies in the theater in Denmark is completely legal. Thank God we have people over here like Michael Moore, the kind sole who has allowed us to freely videotape and distribute Fahrenheit 9/11.
What if you could caravan food from places with a surplus to places that needed it?
This, I recall, was part of Civ II - trade caravans of food could either help build wonders, or provide food for a city that needs it. Using caravans, it was possible to create cities of much greater population than could be supported by that city's own farmers.
I don't mean to belittle the accomplishment but it shouldn't be overestimated either. It's a step, an important step, but a baby step, there are a lot more to go.
Ever see a baby's first steps? New parents call their friends, families, etc. They try to videotape it if they can. Baby steps are a very big deal, so you've answered your own question.
Having your computer be that much of a hassle is not my definition of easy. Not to mention that XP and win2k systems still seem to lockup or blue screen quite regularly despite the much touted "stability improvements"...
Sorry, but I haven't seen the BSOD in two years - and this is counting my computers at home and 16 at work, all running Windows XP. Please feel free to comment about Windows security issues, and the amount of resources XP gobbles up, and Microsoft's secret plan to take over the world, but the OS itself is very stable and does what it's supposed to do.
So, Apple changed the numbering system on their OS. They went from OS-9 to OS-X, completely skipping OS's A through W.
Goddamn hypocrites.
Think about it. If you've read the article, the text messages in question were from Kobe Bryant's alleged victim to two other people. These messages are directly relevant to the alleged victim's state of mind in the time period after the alleged rape, before the police were involved. Depending on their content, these messages could actually exonerate Kobe Bryant.
The real question is this: Should the alleged victim's right to private communications trump Kobe Bryant's right to a fair trial? To me it's no contest. Any communications from the victim to others could be admissible in court. If she had sent e-mails, left voice-mail messages still in the system, wrote letters, etc. All of these could be of evidentiary value.
Also, if you've read the article, the messages are not being handed over to Kobe Bryant's lawyers just yet. The judge is going to review them privately. If they are relevant, then the defense will get them to protect their client. If they are not relevant, Bryant's attorneys will never see them and the privacy rights of his accuser will not be violated at all.
I don't think that the overall quality of anime is particularly different from what it was five years ago. At that time, I was actually trading VHS tapes with a physician in Osaka. I mailed him the American dub of Sailor Moon and he sent me Evangelion (what a deal that was), and other programs taped off of Japanese TV.
One of the tapes he mailed me was his annual opening title/end credits tape of virtually all anime that was broadcast new that year. After watching about twenty minutes of this, I came to the conclusion that Sturgeon's law (90% of everything is crap) applies to Anime. By the end of the tape, I was even singing my own theme song, "Another f*cking show about a bunch of f*cking kids, f*ck f*ck f*ck f*ck f*ck".
And by the way, Edward rocks. She provided much-needed comic relief in Cowboy Beebop, until she was removed just prior to the last few episodes which were all chock full of angsty torture (and which were also very good).
GOD DAMNIT, IT'S SPELLED HANGAR. H-A-N-G-A-R. I've had this handle for 6 years, and damned if someone dosen't somehow mispell the thing. Same way every time. If you put yer coat on the thing, you call it a hanger, if you put a fuggin airplane or aliens or whatever else in it, it's a hangar.
NO WIRE COAT HANGARS...EVER!
The 40% overhead doesn't refer to the costs of the IRS, it refers to the operating costs of the federal government.
I won't say that it's unfair. However, you need to understand that most of the protections of the Geneva convention don't apply to un-uniformed combatants, the use of which is contrary to international law. It's a bad idea, from a political and moral perspective, to simply shoot Iraqis found with weapons, but we could actually do it and not be in violation of the Geneva convention.
Just so you know, one of the principals of the Geneva conventions is that while each side is required to take measures to reduce the risk of civilian deaths, you can ALWAYS shoot the enemy. For example, it is perfectly permisible to bomb the hell out of a Surface to Air Missile launcher even if it's right next to an elementary school, a hospital, and a foreign embassy.
...as well as a "full version of the classic Ultima IX: Ascension."
Sorry, but Ultima VI (I think - it's the one that included "THOU HAST LOST AN EIGHTH!") was the last Ultima sequel that can be considered "classic". Ultima VII and VIII were so buggy as to be unplayable - by the time Ultima IX came out, the series had already been more or less ruined beyond repair.
I still miss the pre-Brittania time-travel and spaceships of Ultima II.
Yeah did anyone else notice that the article said 80 percent of HP's earnings come from printers and they lose money on the hardware and only make money on the ink? That would mean that 80 percent of HP's earnings come from ink.
This is NYT's idea of making money by being an innovator.
Well, the New York Times is in the business of selling ink too, so this shouldn't come as much of a surprise...
I have about 16 machines at the office here. The eMachines and the HP's have created trouble and extra work for me, from Day One. The Dells that I have (all purchased in the last two years) have given me no problems whatsoever.
I do agree, however, that I'm not going to be buying printers from Dell, or Lexmark for that matter. Although I'll have to say that the HP LaserJet 1100 was completely crap-tastic, and was actually the subject ot a class-action lawsuit (which was settled). On the whole, however, HP printers have been superior to the rest.
Just be glad that Legolas probably won't show up and surf down some stairs on a shield...
No, but Anakin will get knocked into the lava by Gollum, falling from high above...
Because some of us remember when Star Trek wasn't just an excuse to sell toys and keep "camera men, editors, and janitors" in jobs.
Sorry, pal, but in Hollywood, it's always about the money. Always. Even if something is making money, it'll be brushed aside in an instant (Firefly, Futurama, too many examples to count) if the network executives think they've got another program that can make more money.
You have a very good point, but just so you know, it's not as if the plaintiff's lawyers had a contract paying them $2-3k/hour. It was a contingency fee case, which meant that if the case was lost, the lawyers would receive nothing at all.
Essentially, the lawyers funded the ligitation in return for a piece of the action. This is more or less typical in class action lawsuits where there are many plaintiffs who each have very little in damages. The masses or even the states weren't going to hire lawyers on an hourly basis to fight Microsoft, because it's not worth enough to each of them on an individual basis to take the risk. And if you say "there was no risk", you're kidding yourself. The fees earned by the plaintiff's lawyers (and no, I'm not one of them) don't even approach what the lawyers in the anti-smoking industry class action lawsuits earned.
The fees in these cases are approved by the judge as part of the class action settlement. The fees are calculated to take into account the money fronted by the attorneys and the risk of losing the case and getting nothing at all. In any particular case, and perhaps this one, the lawyer fees may be too high, but the lawyers here made this case. If it weren't for them, there would have been no case against Microsoft, and no settlement.
I'm not sure about "legal" paper and the rest.
Just so you know, "legal" paper is more or less out of vogue in the legal profession in most states. Letter size is in. I use legal paper only on yellow notepads.