They state several times that your responses will not be shared with law enforcement or any other entity, yet it's illegal to not give a reply. How could they prosecute you if none of the information is shared? OK, maybe they could claim that you shared NO information, so what if you put Mickey Mouse as your name? They'd have to share some aspect of the information in order to fine you ("gave fictitious name"), in which case they break their claim.
Also, why do they need to count every person? Surely they could use sampling techniques to get a count within 1% accuracy but at a tenth or less of the cost. Along with my current utility bill it said something about how over the last 10 years, $X funding was lost for the local county due to an undercount of 16000. How did they calculate this undercount in the first place, and why didn't they just use that method in the first place?
And finally, it's very offensive how on the one hand they are asking for your help in counting, saying it will help you get your "fair" share of government funds (who took them from you in the first place), but then they have these strongly worded "BY LAW YOU MUST REPLY". It's like someone holding you up and pretending that he's politely asking you for a donation. It's extremely offensive; they should just come right out with it, "give us your details or we'll put you in jail" (sure, they fine you, but try refusing to pay the fine).
BTW, to anyone suggesting that you give false answers, that's punishable by an even larger fine than not giving any answer.
Yep. Drink water all the time and fruit juice becomes a treat to have once in a while. Though unfortunately the water choices here are either expensive bottled, with whatever crap the plastic leeches, or city water, with fluoride added. I suppose there's reverse osmosis, but I don't have the money to install such a system.
I can't argue with Wikileaks' lack of discretion in what they have posted. If they were really selective, they could change their image to something much more responsible and worth showing support for.
Supporting an organisation that actively tries to place itself above the law is not the solution to those problems. We should fix bad laws for the good of everyone, not merely try to circumvent them.
Why fix them if they are never abused? Show me some examples of abuse. Oh, right, you need to break said laws to show that they are being abused.
Also it provokes a reaction from the government, and thereby shows to what lengths they will go to suppress it. That itself then becomes news. We need to be reminded how hard the government will try to cover up their crimes, until we act to clip its talons.
Tomorrow I will announce a massive cover-up of the nature of reality, and our real purpose (hint: coppertop). Nobody has ever revealed this before. If I don't post, it's because "they" have imprisoned me. Stay tuned!
Whew! Thanks for clearing up that misunderstanding for us. I mean, I don't think I was alone in thinking that a computer with an Intel 64-bit quad-core cpu was a Commodore 64. Internet needs more people like you to stop people from trying to cash in on famous names from spreading their disinformation!
Bullshit! I clearly remember my Commodore 64 having an Intel 64-bit quad-core CPU with dual-head graphics and 4096x2048 resolution on the monitor.
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Cool, Thank you. - And yes, please keep all of the original errors and typos, Law droids have all sorts of fun with those. "For lack of a comma the land was lost" and all of that..
I wonder which of these apparent typos are really parts of a fingerprint to determine which copy, and thus who, was leaked.
It's good we're finally going to get a proper social security card that is only used for the purpose of social security, and not as a general identification number that's treated as secret yet widely shared. No more will a social security card be used for other purposes.
Or maybe not. I admit I'm fairly ignorant about this. I realized that you can have energy bound up in non-matter arrangements, like water raised above the surface of a planet, or a rubber band stretched, or a chemical bond. I found an interesting discussion of the matter that made me think more about it.
I'm kind of skeptical, after seeing an early version of the user manual for the thing, leaked by sinktank:
"Thank you to use Nuclear-Friend. The main characteristic in machine of control rod moves in with slim middle, can nimble neutron dependable work send, of via sea warmness thusly turbine twist out machine-wind.
ALERTNESS, magnet-imprison with ionisation threatening badass. Fleeting bioluminescence in bird appendage observation, conjunction Cherenkov neon likeness, linking chain of no command (barking!) to blinking indications. Personages of vicinity ascending fucking with sparks! Ability detriment remove with "fast-neutron-sheilding-blanket" (slowly neutrons with alacrity) to mammalian sex babylove machine faulty. As packing box inside includes dosimeter for life-spirit guard dog is. Un-normal witness with e=mc2 of cloudy fungus c.10km bigness, warranty glue not connected.
Right now you can buy a 1TB drive for right around $90. But you can not buy a 5ooGB drive for $45 or a 250GB drive for $22.50. There is a limit to how cheap you can make a harddrive.
Good point. Even a 1 MB hard drive must have the platter, head, servo, drive electronics, and enclosure. A 1 MB SSD just needs the controller chip and a tiny memory chip. It's easier to assemble too, just a couple of SMT components on a board.
Because we, as tech-savvy geeks, are most likely to be aware of the problems with the internet service we're using, and the ones most interested in them being fixed. Not that I can complain, as I get better speed than advertised on my entry-level cable connection (which I reported on the survey form).
about time that we stopped the system of some people getting "insurance" only when they get sick
Mandatory auto insurance is to cover damage you do to the other guy. Mandatory health insurance is forcing someone to pay for something he may not need or want, possibly because he leads a healthy lifestyle. And what if the guy can't even afford health insurance? This is sick.
Shameful that any company would fail at these basic tasks. It would take any competent admin very little time to compose policies that would effectively handle most of these.
The IRS is not a company. It doesn't have to please customers. It doesn't have to make a profit via voluntary exchange. Why should it care about protecting its payers' data?
Was the guy using all possible safety devices available, including those that cost a lot? If not, then by his logic he's responsible (which can't be, because he's clearly irresponsible). Or, did he verify that the saw used all possible safety mechanisms before he used it? Hell, what if I patent the "has no power cord or battery" safety mechanism; does that mean anyone can sue a power too manufacturer for not incorporating my 100% safe device?
Someone on Slashdot cleared this up a while back, in an elegant way. "Begging the question" (intransitive) is just a special case of "begging the question of..." (transitive), where the implied object of the intransitive form is the question the debate was meant to answer, but ended up begging.
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They state several times that your responses will not be shared with law enforcement or any other entity, yet it's illegal to not give a reply. How could they prosecute you if none of the information is shared? OK, maybe they could claim that you shared NO information, so what if you put Mickey Mouse as your name? They'd have to share some aspect of the information in order to fine you ("gave fictitious name"), in which case they break their claim.
Also, why do they need to count every person? Surely they could use sampling techniques to get a count within 1% accuracy but at a tenth or less of the cost. Along with my current utility bill it said something about how over the last 10 years, $X funding was lost for the local county due to an undercount of 16000. How did they calculate this undercount in the first place, and why didn't they just use that method in the first place?
And finally, it's very offensive how on the one hand they are asking for your help in counting, saying it will help you get your "fair" share of government funds (who took them from you in the first place), but then they have these strongly worded "BY LAW YOU MUST REPLY". It's like someone holding you up and pretending that he's politely asking you for a donation. It's extremely offensive; they should just come right out with it, "give us your details or we'll put you in jail" (sure, they fine you, but try refusing to pay the fine).
BTW, to anyone suggesting that you give false answers, that's punishable by an even larger fine than not giving any answer.
Yep. Drink water all the time and fruit juice becomes a treat to have once in a while. Though unfortunately the water choices here are either expensive bottled, with whatever crap the plastic leeches, or city water, with fluoride added. I suppose there's reverse osmosis, but I don't have the money to install such a system.
I can't argue with Wikileaks' lack of discretion in what they have posted. If they were really selective, they could change their image to something much more responsible and worth showing support for.
My basement doesn't have any. Oops, mom's calling me, gotta go.
Why fix them if they are never abused? Show me some examples of abuse. Oh, right, you need to break said laws to show that they are being abused.
Tomorrow I will announce a massive cover-up of the nature of reality, and our real purpose (hint: coppertop). Nobody has ever revealed this before. If I don't post, it's because "they" have imprisoned me. Stay tuned!
Bullshit! I clearly remember my Commodore 64 having an Intel 64-bit quad-core CPU with dual-head graphics and 4096x2048 resolution on the monitor.
I wonder which of these apparent typos are really parts of a fingerprint to determine which copy, and thus who, was leaked.
Sudden deceleration without applying braking? Physical impossibility, I think.
It's good we're finally going to get a proper social security card that is only used for the purpose of social security, and not as a general identification number that's treated as secret yet widely shared. No more will a social security card be used for other purposes.
Or maybe not. I admit I'm fairly ignorant about this. I realized that you can have energy bound up in non-matter arrangements, like water raised above the surface of a planet, or a rubber band stretched, or a chemical bond. I found an interesting discussion of the matter that made me think more about it.
And yet a scale will measure less mass after an exothermic chemical reaction.
I'm kind of skeptical, after seeing an early version of the user manual for the thing, leaked by sinktank:
Good point. Even a 1 MB hard drive must have the platter, head, servo, drive electronics, and enclosure. A 1 MB SSD just needs the controller chip and a tiny memory chip. It's easier to assemble too, just a couple of SMT components on a board.
BTW, consider using paragraphs.
Because we, as tech-savvy geeks, are most likely to be aware of the problems with the internet service we're using, and the ones most interested in them being fixed. Not that I can complain, as I get better speed than advertised on my entry-level cable connection (which I reported on the survey form).
Destroy as in convert matter to energy?
Wait, so it's a chemical reaction (rapid oxidation)?
Or is this fission, where they convert the actinides into other less-dangerous elements via fission?
Mandatory auto insurance is to cover damage you do to the other guy. Mandatory health insurance is forcing someone to pay for something he may not need or want, possibly because he leads a healthy lifestyle. And what if the guy can't even afford health insurance? This is sick.
640 cores should be enough for anybody.
And yet they're all dead now, every last Roman. Care to rethink that?
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The IRS is not a company. It doesn't have to please customers. It doesn't have to make a profit via voluntary exchange. Why should it care about protecting its payers' data?
A clearer title would be "Amazon Battles Apple by Strong-Arming Publishers"
and turned, and finally realized they had been chopped from the whole, shoved into the subject line for some cheap suspense.
Was the guy using all possible safety devices available, including those that cost a lot? If not, then by his logic he's responsible (which can't be, because he's clearly irresponsible). Or, did he verify that the saw used all possible safety mechanisms before he used it? Hell, what if I patent the "has no power cord or battery" safety mechanism; does that mean anyone can sue a power too manufacturer for not incorporating my 100% safe device?
Someone on Slashdot cleared this up a while back, in an elegant way. "Begging the question" (intransitive) is just a special case of "begging the question of ..." (transitive), where the implied object of the intransitive form is the question the debate was meant to answer, but ended up begging.