cunts like you need your fucking face smashed. I lost a brother and other relatives so cuntwipes like you can run your fucking cum-suck and get away with it.
Unless your relatives would be over a hundred and fifty years old, you didn't.
A soldier in the Armed Forces of our country JOINS to fight for his country's freedom. He actually fights for the freedom of someone else entirely, based on the thought that the USA is a whole lot safer if the wars aren't ever fought here. They're heroes, for sure, but it wasn't MY freedom that my grandfather and best friend fought for.
And trust me -- the dead would much rather have never had to go off to war in the first place. That "cunt" does more to honor their memory by standing against war and demanding justification for its inherent atrocity than you do with your jingoistic swearing.
No one would let a trash-disposal company make money by dumping rubbish in their backyard To paraphrase Stranger that Fiction -- "that depends entirely on the size of the backyard and, the quantity of the rubbish."
Albany NY gets a substantial amount of money by operating a landfill, right next to our western highway exit. The only complaint is that the air isn't clean enough, not that there's a landfill at all.
If your town has the land, try proposing "we can start a landfill an eliminate property tax increases for the next fifty years" at your next school budget meeting.
You know that line on the IT-150/200/201 where you declare Sales Tax you haven't paid? I wager that, if you document the over-tax you paid, you can get a credit for it from DTF and have it included in your refund.
None of you can prove that these guys weren't hired.
They were hired. By a guy named Osama. They were recruited, trained, paid, and directed by this man and his associates. When we invaded Afghanistan, we found records planning this very attack.
If you think this isn't what happened, kindly cough up at least ONE THING that supports your theory to the contrary.
Of course I'm thinking somebody operating in the USA.
There's no legal reason Blizzard can't declare that, for tax purposes, the game is in the USA. They probably do already, to ease their jurisdiction.
If you telecommute to NYC, you can expect to pay taxes to NYC, NYS, and USA -- and your home country. There might be a credit in there somewhere, maybe a bunch of them, but not reporting it is still a crime.
When I asked GM about the stupid design, they told me that they weren't sure if it was even technically possible to install an aftermarket deck, and that this is something that the majority of consumers want.
No, not really. The majority of consumers buy the radio as part of the car, just like any other part of the electrical system.
The world is getting warmer and human-emitted carbon dioxide is, at least, exacerbating this.
The sun is not emitting much more light than it began with when we started measuring it. Any statement other than that is conjecture or inference, and needs to have more facts than just what supports your argument.
As for Gore -- it doesn't matter if he overstated his case, or if he's completely wrong. Pollution is a bad thing, fossil fuels (the primary CO2 source) are going to go away, and getting a switch to renewable energy is a good thing for everybody but the oil sheiks.
1: It's "tortillas". An apostrophe (') usually connotes possession, but never marks plurality. This is basic English.
2: More expensive food means smaller (not "zero", halfwit) portions for the same dollar -- and it also means more dollars for the same portion of foodstuff. Non-agricultural mexicans who eat nothing but corn will eat less (not "nothing", but maybe "not enough to survive"), but those who raise corn might wind up eating more.
I will mourn this unfortunate change. Which one? The switch to Linux, or the splintering of the interfaces?
The title flamebait, and amazingly wrong. Palm will keep on selling devices with "Palm OS" until they go out of business, just as Microsoft will keep on selling "Windows", Apple will sell "Apples", and GM will sell "Chevrolets".
By this time next year, you'll be able to buy an imported phone running "Palm on Linux" from Access, a phone running "Linux Palm OS" from Palm, and (please oh please) a geniune PDA from Palm with Linux under the hood. The differences for an end user will be no greater than the switch between a Palm III and a Palm TX.
No, it is not, and that is part of the problem. "simple" and "simpler" are not synonyms. Anything that doesn't involve a lawyer is almost always simpler than anything that does.
Often when a teacher issues detention, the parents do not allow their children to stay for it. Either because it is an inconvenience for them or because they cannot believe that their child is a perfect little angel.
That's fine -- the follow-ons to after school detention are in-school suspension (johnny sits in room, by himself, all day), out of school suspension (Johnny can't come to school today as punishment) and expulsion (Johnny is too disruptive to come to this school.)
Teachers bow to angry parents because, like the GP said, they don't have the hutzpah to just use the system their school's already got.
All the teachers would need to do is smash the phone of any kid caught sending these messages in class.
In most jurisdictions, that's "willful destruction of property" or a similar criminal and civil infraction.
The rule of law does not allow the government to take private property without fair compensation. A teacher is, at best, part of the government. I suspect any teacher that earned their school a $300 replacement fee would pretty quickly loose their standing.
It's not a bad idea, really. If I spend my adult life creating a rich fantasy world, my heirs will not see a single cent of profit once I've been dead for seventy years and a day -- even if there's still profit to be had. If on the other hand I spend my adult life making a popular soft drink, my heirs can milk that until the end of time.
(anyone on/. knows at least one counter-argument to this. Let's assume you've made those already, and move on.)
The correct answer to these problems is to refine copyright -- add a requirement of mandatory licensing to any copywritten work, exclude software from copyright*, eliminate copyright on "mere publication or collection" of public domain works, and push all works into the public domain after a five year period where they are not "in print."
(*: software deserves either its own IP model, or none at all.)
And yes, I noticed my grammar mistake. Please remove that "an" in my question from the record... That's not a grammar mistake. It's a grammatical variance.
The standard rule is "if it starts with a vowel, use an." As this is a vocal, rather than typographic, rule, you're correct to use the a/an as if you had written out "eleven." "An eight-sided die" is correct, for example -- but so is "a 11,500 car."
In the long run, it's a silly rule that you can happily give raspberries to if you care to.:)
Now perhaps this is simply No "IF" about it, buddy. Any field of technology that does not become simpler for identical tasks on identical budgets is not advancing. Programming a Sudoku game today is easier than it was ten, twenty, or thirty years ago -- and each of those were simpler than their decade previous.
The idea that you aren't as smart if your interface is simple is a stupid one, and makes me want to take away the spedometer in your car to illustrate the point.
Yes, it is. Law is not computer programming -- the simpler you make the law, the harder (ironically) it is to find a loophole. ("You did this to intentionally avoid taxes" is enough bad faith to get a corporation frozen. And if you insist on a jury trial, well, odds are most of those on the jury will be poor.)
Of course, what would be a FAR better idea is to just adjust the tax code (so, dollar-for-dollar it always makes tax sense to spend at home), restore the welfare state (so you can hire seasonal employees who would rather have six months or so off -- and hire them for less), use some federal weight to conglamerate and streamline all those job-finder sites, or even move our business-tax to a strict revenue-tax, calculated the same way an income tax is. (I don't get to deduct the cost of my rent, why do you?)
Yeah, and they'll charge you with that after one of the SWAT guys stubs his toe after breaking into your house to arrest you for.
They can charge whatever they want. If the SWAT guard just stubs his toe on your household clutter, you've got an amazingly good chance of (1) a summary judgment in your favor (2) a jury handing down a "not guilty" verdict on that count and (3) getting an appellate judge to toss the conviction.
Remember: when the police show up with a warrant, ask to read it and then do exactly what it says. If they have a no-knock warrant and barge in, resist only until you hear "POLICE!" -- and do not, under any circumstances, shoot first or run for your "wipe HDD" switch.
GM's hybrid is a simple matter -- just a few accessory bits added on to the extant drive train.
This is done intentionally, as GM has again and again looked at hybrids as "boondoggles" -- an awful lot of additional parts and fault-points for not all that much gain.
But when I look at today's systems and the surveillance surrounding them, who wants to tell me that whatever is plugged into my cranium is really "mine"? And the manufacturer doesn't think that he's still the one owning it?
1: The fucking United States of America. The first corporation to try and exert copyright control over thoughts will be the first one to have their corporate charter revoked. (Not to say that you won't be bugged, but if you're ok with that, you'll be fine.)
2: Christianity. Believe or not, fear of "the number of the beast" will draw a firm line on control of implants.
"Ideas" cannot be patented. Specific implementations of ideas can be. AHHHHHHH!!!!!
Look, if you're going to lump "intellectual property" together* for your politics, you should be aware of the difference between them.
A trademark is the right to keep anyone else from using a particular name or logo. Like it or hate it, there is only one IBM in the computer world.
A copyright is the right to control who can make copies of a work of art. You cannot simply take the Lord of the Rings, wrap it as an e-book, and sell it without the permission of the Tolkien estate. You can, however, re-write its story into your own novel. ("Specific implementation" and all that.)
A patent is the absolute monopoly on a particular idea. Magic: The Gathering came up with the idea of turning cards 90-degrees to mark them as "played", and no one else can use that idea. Period.
Now, these three have some overlap and blur -- a graphic logo is likely copyrighted, in addition to being a trademark. The individual cards and rulebooks of Magic are copyrighted, in addition to the "tap" being patented. However, they are very distinct things nonetheless -- you can get around copyright with a clean-room implentation, but you can't clean-room a patent. (You can, however, just wait it out.)
(*: Note that "personal" property includes everything from a slave, to your underwear, to your family company.)
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cunts like you need your fucking face smashed. I lost a brother and other relatives so cuntwipes like you can run your fucking cum-suck and get away with it.
Unless your relatives would be over a hundred and fifty years old, you didn't.
A soldier in the Armed Forces of our country JOINS to fight for his country's freedom. He actually fights for the freedom of someone else entirely, based on the thought that the USA is a whole lot safer if the wars aren't ever fought here. They're heroes, for sure, but it wasn't MY freedom that my grandfather and best friend fought for.
And trust me -- the dead would much rather have never had to go off to war in the first place. That "cunt" does more to honor their memory by standing against war and demanding justification for its inherent atrocity than you do with your jingoistic swearing.
Albany NY gets a substantial amount of money by operating a landfill, right next to our western highway exit. The only complaint is that the air isn't clean enough, not that there's a landfill at all.
If your town has the land, try proposing "we can start a landfill an eliminate property tax increases for the next fifty years" at your next school budget meeting.
You know that line on the IT-150/200/201 where you declare Sales Tax you haven't paid? I wager that, if you document the over-tax you paid, you can get a credit for it from DTF and have it included in your refund.
None of you can prove that these guys weren't hired.
They were hired. By a guy named Osama. They were recruited, trained, paid, and directed by this man and his associates. When we invaded Afghanistan, we found records planning this very attack.
If you think this isn't what happened, kindly cough up at least ONE THING that supports your theory to the contrary.
So, why should we give a damn?
Of course I'm thinking somebody operating in the USA.
There's no legal reason Blizzard can't declare that, for tax purposes, the game is in the USA. They probably do already, to ease their jurisdiction.
If you telecommute to NYC, you can expect to pay taxes to NYC, NYS, and USA -- and your home country. There might be a credit in there somewhere, maybe a bunch of them, but not reporting it is still a crime.
We are FAR better off simply saying "Don't use an apostrophie like that." "6s" is better than "my two car's".
When I asked GM about the stupid design, they told me that they weren't sure if it was even technically possible to install an aftermarket deck, and that this is something that the majority of consumers want.
No, not really. The majority of consumers buy the radio as part of the car, just like any other part of the electrical system.
An apostrophe is usually a marker of possessiveness. It is NEVER used for plurality.
This is basic English. Please learn it.
cough up a link to your numbers, or go home.
The world is getting warmer and human-emitted carbon dioxide is, at least, exacerbating this.
The sun is not emitting much more light than it began with when we started measuring it. Any statement other than that is conjecture or inference, and needs to have more facts than just what supports your argument.
As for Gore -- it doesn't matter if he overstated his case, or if he's completely wrong. Pollution is a bad thing, fossil fuels (the primary CO2 source) are going to go away, and getting a switch to renewable energy is a good thing for everybody but the oil sheiks.
ARRRGHH!
1: It's "tortillas". An apostrophe (') usually connotes possession, but never marks plurality. This is basic English.
2: More expensive food means smaller (not "zero", halfwit) portions for the same dollar -- and it also means more dollars for the same portion of foodstuff. Non-agricultural mexicans who eat nothing but corn will eat less (not "nothing", but maybe "not enough to survive"), but those who raise corn might wind up eating more.
The title flamebait, and amazingly wrong. Palm will keep on selling devices with "Palm OS" until they go out of business, just as Microsoft will keep on selling "Windows", Apple will sell "Apples", and GM will sell "Chevrolets".
By this time next year, you'll be able to buy an imported phone running "Palm on Linux" from Access, a phone running "Linux Palm OS" from Palm, and (please oh please) a geniune PDA from Palm with Linux under the hood. The differences for an end user will be no greater than the switch between a Palm III and a Palm TX.
With an air horn. Right next to their head. Every time their cell rings.
Creativity: A+
Effectiveness: B
Legality: F.
Deafening a child is as bad as--well, it is--crippling them. But if you stay within the range of "not painful", you'll do pretty good.
Often when a teacher issues detention, the parents do not allow their children to stay for it. Either because it is an inconvenience for them or because they cannot believe that their child is a perfect little angel.
That's fine -- the follow-ons to after school detention are in-school suspension (johnny sits in room, by himself, all day), out of school suspension (Johnny can't come to school today as punishment) and expulsion (Johnny is too disruptive to come to this school.)
Teachers bow to angry parents because, like the GP said, they don't have the hutzpah to just use the system their school's already got.
All the teachers would need to do is smash the phone of any kid caught sending these messages in class.
In most jurisdictions, that's "willful destruction of property" or a similar criminal and civil infraction.
The rule of law does not allow the government to take private property without fair compensation. A teacher is, at best, part of the government. I suspect any teacher that earned their school a $300 replacement fee would pretty quickly loose their standing.
An "F" or detention is much simpler.
It's not a bad idea, really. If I spend my adult life creating a rich fantasy world, my heirs will not see a single cent of profit once I've been dead for seventy years and a day -- even if there's still profit to be had. If on the other hand I spend my adult life making a popular soft drink, my heirs can milk that until the end of time.
/. knows at least one counter-argument to this. Let's assume you've made those already, and move on.)
(anyone on
The correct answer to these problems is to refine copyright -- add a requirement of mandatory licensing to any copywritten work, exclude software from copyright*, eliminate copyright on "mere publication or collection" of public domain works, and push all works into the public domain after a five year period where they are not "in print."
(*: software deserves either its own IP model, or none at all.)
Either you're teaching them something or you're entertaining them. Pick one.
someone doesn't know the reason all children (of any species) play, and has never watched kids learn the rules for a game.
The standard rule is "if it starts with a vowel, use an." As this is a vocal, rather than typographic, rule, you're correct to use the a/an as if you had written out "eleven." "An eight-sided die" is correct, for example -- but so is "a 11,500 car."
In the long run, it's a silly rule that you can happily give raspberries to if you care to.
The idea that you aren't as smart if your interface is simple is a stupid one, and makes me want to take away the spedometer in your car to illustrate the point.
It's not nearly as "simple" as you might think.
Yes, it is. Law is not computer programming -- the simpler you make the law, the harder (ironically) it is to find a loophole. ("You did this to intentionally avoid taxes" is enough bad faith to get a corporation frozen. And if you insist on a jury trial, well, odds are most of those on the jury will be poor.)
Of course, what would be a FAR better idea is to just adjust the tax code (so, dollar-for-dollar it always makes tax sense to spend at home), restore the welfare state (so you can hire seasonal employees who would rather have six months or so off -- and hire them for less), use some federal weight to conglamerate and streamline all those job-finder sites, or even move our business-tax to a strict revenue-tax, calculated the same way an income tax is. (I don't get to deduct the cost of my rent, why do you?)
Yeah, and they'll charge you with that after one of the SWAT guys stubs his toe after breaking into your house to arrest you for
They can charge whatever they want. If the SWAT guard just stubs his toe on your household clutter, you've got an amazingly good chance of (1) a summary judgment in your favor (2) a jury handing down a "not guilty" verdict on that count and (3) getting an appellate judge to toss the conviction.
Remember: when the police show up with a warrant, ask to read it and then do exactly what it says. If they have a no-knock warrant and barge in, resist only until you hear "POLICE!" -- and do not, under any circumstances, shoot first or run for your "wipe HDD" switch.
Conspiracy to commit murder. This is btw just a wordy way to say consiracy to commit copyright violation.
It's been a year or two, (and it varies by state), but I'm pretty sure you need to have at least two people for a conspiracy.
GM's hybrid is a simple matter -- just a few accessory bits added on to the extant drive train.
This is done intentionally, as GM has again and again looked at hybrids as "boondoggles" -- an awful lot of additional parts and fault-points for not all that much gain.
But when I look at today's systems and the surveillance surrounding them, who wants to tell me that whatever is plugged into my cranium is really "mine"? And the manufacturer doesn't think that he's still the one owning it?
1: The fucking United States of America. The first corporation to try and exert copyright control over thoughts will be the first one to have their corporate charter revoked. (Not to say that you won't be bugged, but if you're ok with that, you'll be fine.)
2: Christianity. Believe or not, fear of "the number of the beast" will draw a firm line on control of implants.
3: Democracy.
Look, if you're going to lump "intellectual property" together* for your politics, you should be aware of the difference between them.
A trademark is the right to keep anyone else from using a particular name or logo. Like it or hate it, there is only one IBM in the computer world.
A copyright is the right to control who can make copies of a work of art. You cannot simply take the Lord of the Rings, wrap it as an e-book, and sell it without the permission of the Tolkien estate. You can, however, re-write its story into your own novel. ("Specific implementation" and all that.)
A patent is the absolute monopoly on a particular idea. Magic: The Gathering came up with the idea of turning cards 90-degrees to mark them as "played", and no one else can use that idea. Period.
Now, these three have some overlap and blur -- a graphic logo is likely copyrighted, in addition to being a trademark. The individual cards and rulebooks of Magic are copyrighted, in addition to the "tap" being patented. However, they are very distinct things nonetheless -- you can get around copyright with a clean-room implentation, but you can't clean-room a patent. (You can, however, just wait it out.)
(*: Note that "personal" property includes everything from a slave, to your underwear, to your family company.)