Atheil said: That being said, I do agree that it is ridiculous that they took the board game, it's just not a good enough reason to "hate the police."
May I credit you as the inspiration for the Atheil Doctrine?
The Atheil Doctrine
The probability that the police are considered trustworthy, professional, and "not worth hating" is inversely proportional to whether you've been the recipient of police criminal behavior, misconduct, or overzealousness.
No, not unless you hire and pay for a lawyer to sue the health insurer in court for the right to pay them while retaining your medical privacy (and win).
> The "liberals" are not the ones literally throwing a tantrum here. Both parties need to f***ing grow up.
A-hahahaha, that's honestly funny. Why should either party grow up when they have no reason to? They're still going to be re-elected every single term, even if a new guy replaces an incumbent.
What's the case law say about judges granting the cost of defense from the plaintiffs? Is it based on their mood, or how bad the "evidence" was that the plaintiffs used to make their case, or something else?
"I don't understand why most people don't get together with friends and family and each pitch in a few bucks each year and have their own domain, with their own email address."
Comfort zones and insecurity. Speaking as the "computer guy" for about 15-20 friends and family members, the idea of registering a domain name and then paying a very small monthly fee (less than $5, sometimes $0) to permanently own your own domain name and e-mail is uncomfortable when they can just keep their free 5-10 year old AOL/LocalISP address. Only my Mom owns her own domain name (which she really likes).
From the point of view of Homeland Security, they're much more likely to be successful at stopping terrorist attacks than they would be at curing heart disease. You're right that their measure of success is bizarre, but under that measure, what they're doing is working.
As *both* a geek and a sports fan, it's because The #5 (out of 110 Division 1-A teams) ranked University of Michigan football team lost to Appalachian State last Saturday, 34-32. UM is the first ranked team (e.g., Top 20) in the 100+ year history of college football to lose to a Division I-AA team.
For a more geek-friendly comparison, UM's loss was as shocking as if the MPAA and RIAA announced that all the movies and music they "owned" were going to be released into the public domain next Monday.
"The school feels the RIAA will have a hard time tracking down who did the file-sharing anyway, as the IP addresses the RIAA has for the violations may be mapped to computers in common areas, making it difficult to determine just which people may have made the downloads."
Oh, that won't stop them. I'm sure they'll be happy to offer an enterprise licensing settlement for every student at UW-Madison with auto-renewal on a yearly basis.
Remember, if one infringes, they're ALL liable.;-)
Why on earth/. doesn't just link to these where available, I will never know...
Because the users who submit the articles either don't know or don't care about the uni-page alternative when they're sending their story link in, and the editors are still coming down off last weekend's methamphetamine bender with a gaggle of prostitutes, a case of tequila, and a goat named Rhonda.
This exact same public advertising campaign took place in nine other cities with enough brain cells to force a fart out of their asses, and not rampantly overreact to OMG!!!! PINK PONIES FLIPPIN' ME THE BOMB PACK BIRD!!1111 In fact, they had enough brains not to react at all.
The Boston PD and its authorities are Proof #1 of Einstein's theory that "two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
Thank you for adding an extraordinarily appropriate word to my vocabulary. That one's a keeper, especially given the airhead response from the numbnuts in Boston.
This isn't about being green, it is about removing older macs from the 2nd hand market. The exact same reason that HP offers a similar program.
OK. As long as it achieves the same effect, whether by some altruistic concern for the environment or through sheer greed, it's all good. Besides, it helps the individual Mac resllers who will be able to maintain a greater profit margin on used equipment due to less product glut on the open market.
Can you say "artificial trade barrier"? In an ideal Internet, location would be irrelevant. That concept is unacceptable to the many corporations that have built their business on the model of regional distribution monopolies.
Agreed, and that's why we should visit places where monopolies, market collusion, and DRM are neutralized like emusic.com and allofmp3.com.
Also, realize that major label music isn't better than indie music, it's just much more heavily marketed. If you need a marketing campaign to make you feel good about your CD, OK, but for everyone else, there's a ton of awesome music that can be bought from cdbaby.com, or used from your local store.
Beat me to it, but yeah. Of course, I haven't heard when Google's hosting service is going to be opened up to the public from its currently closed beta testing.
If you don't want content owners reacting to the thievery of their material, you should tell the pirates to stop taking stuff without paying for it. It's that simple.
That's a really good idea. How far back should we go to "tell the pirates to stop taking stuff without paying for it." Maybe the 15th century, when Gutenberg started the whole printed word thing for Europe? Or perhaps more recently in the 16th and 17th centuries when composers guarded their original compositions from thieving competitors and people who illegally snuck in to performances for free?
Reality check, Overly Critical Guy. The "pirates" aren't a recent innovation since the creation of Napster, ok? It's been happening for at least 500+ years, and will continue for another 500+ years. I'd suggest re-examining your attitudes towards artistic theft given its long-standing embrace by our communities.
And people often say that they will take their business elsewhere, but then stick to the cheapest vendor when push comes to shove. Self-report is not the best indicator of actual behaviour, especially for a hypothetical.
I agree and disagree. Your point's on, but when I'm looking for something to buy, I restrict my search for the best price on an item to very reputable vendors, not the large majority of vendors who are getting consistently crappy ratings at pricewatch or resellerratings. Why? Because if the item doesn't work or breaks after a few weeks/months, I don't want to deal with the b.s. of getting stonewalled by a customer unfriendly company to replace or repair it. Of course, others shop differently.
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Atheil said: That being said, I do agree that it is ridiculous that they took the board game, it's just not a good enough reason to "hate the police."
May I credit you as the inspiration for the Atheil Doctrine?
The Atheil Doctrine
The probability that the police are considered trustworthy, professional, and "not worth hating" is inversely proportional to whether you've been the recipient of police criminal behavior, misconduct, or overzealousness.
No, not unless you hire and pay for a lawyer to sue the health insurer in court for the right to pay them while retaining your medical privacy (and win).
> The "liberals" are not the ones literally throwing a tantrum here. Both parties need to f***ing grow up.
A-hahahaha, that's honestly funny. Why should either party grow up when they have no reason to? They're still going to be re-elected every single term, even if a new guy replaces an incumbent.
Chuck
What's the case law say about judges granting the cost of defense from the plaintiffs? Is it based on their mood, or how bad the "evidence" was that the plaintiffs used to make their case, or something else?
"I don't understand why most people don't get together with friends and family and each pitch in a few bucks each year and have their own domain, with their own email address."
Comfort zones and insecurity. Speaking as the "computer guy" for about 15-20 friends and family members, the idea of registering a domain name and then paying a very small monthly fee (less than $5, sometimes $0) to permanently own your own domain name and e-mail is uncomfortable when they can just keep their free 5-10 year old AOL/LocalISP address. Only my Mom owns her own domain name (which she really likes).
Chuck
From the point of view of Homeland Security, they're much more likely to be successful at stopping terrorist attacks than they would be at curing heart disease. You're right that their measure of success is bizarre, but under that measure, what they're doing is working.
Um, what?
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/10/18/airport.screeners
As *both* a geek and a sports fan, it's because The #5 (out of 110 Division 1-A teams) ranked University of Michigan football team lost to Appalachian State last Saturday, 34-32. UM is the first ranked team (e.g., Top 20) in the 100+ year history of college football to lose to a Division I-AA team.
For a more geek-friendly comparison, UM's loss was as shocking as if the MPAA and RIAA announced that all the movies and music they "owned" were going to be released into the public domain next Monday.
Cheers.
Answers:
A. 4:15.
B. $0.5714285714 per application, or $0.57.
C. 204 celsius = 400 fahrenheit.
I am all woman.
Chuck
"The school feels the RIAA will have a hard time tracking down who did the file-sharing anyway, as the IP addresses the RIAA has for the violations may be mapped to computers in common areas, making it difficult to determine just which people may have made the downloads."
;-)
Oh, that won't stop them. I'm sure they'll be happy to offer an enterprise licensing settlement for every student at UW-Madison with auto-renewal on a yearly basis.
Remember, if one infringes, they're ALL liable.
Ahem, you misspelled Magic Johnson.
Neocons, duh.
Donkeys don't have the ability to first skin the babies.
>When, ever, has Microsoft done something that doesn't specifically enhance their bottom line?
Microsoft Bob and his boyfriend Clippy?
Does anyone have a mirror? I checked the site 3 times when there were 5-6 comments on the story and it was /.'d.
Why on earth /. doesn't just link to these where available, I will never know...
Because the users who submit the articles either don't know or don't care about the uni-page alternative when they're sending their story link in, and the editors are still coming down off last weekend's methamphetamine bender with a gaggle of prostitutes, a case of tequila, and a goat named Rhonda.
Uh, no.
c e#Boston_advertising_bomb_scare
This exact same public advertising campaign took place in nine other cities with enough brain cells to force a fart out of their asses, and not rampantly overreact to OMG!!!! PINK PONIES FLIPPIN' ME THE BOMB PACK BIRD!!1111 In fact, they had enough brains not to react at all.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_Teen_Hunger_For
The Boston PD and its authorities are Proof #1 of Einstein's theory that "two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
Thank you for adding an extraordinarily appropriate word to my vocabulary. That one's a keeper, especially given the airhead response from the numbnuts in Boston.
And what about people who use apostrophe's to make plural's? That always ticks me off.
Yep, although I wonder how much of that is writer confusion, since apostrophes are perfectly fine when using them in the possessive:
That was Veronica's push-up bra before you ruined it Archie.
The telephones' connections all went dead.
KISS's show last night was predictable.
This isn't about being green, it is about removing older macs from the 2nd hand market. The exact same reason that HP offers a similar program.
OK. As long as it achieves the same effect, whether by some altruistic concern for the environment or through sheer greed, it's all good. Besides, it helps the individual Mac resllers who will be able to maintain a greater profit margin on used equipment due to less product glut on the open market.
Chuck
Can you say "artificial trade barrier"? In an ideal Internet, location would be irrelevant. That concept is unacceptable to the many corporations that have built their business on the model of regional distribution monopolies.
Agreed, and that's why we should visit places where monopolies, market collusion, and DRM are neutralized like emusic.com and allofmp3.com.
Also, realize that major label music isn't better than indie music, it's just much more heavily marketed. If you need a marketing campaign to make you feel good about your CD, OK, but for everyone else, there's a ton of awesome music that can be bought from cdbaby.com, or used from your local store.
Chuck
Intellectually, I'm curious what that makes the rest of them
Republicans.
If you stick your tongue just a little bit further up, then we may give you a call.
Funny, that's how Linux tech support works too.
Beat me to it, but yeah. Of course, I haven't heard when Google's hosting service is going to be opened up to the public from its currently closed beta testing.
If you don't want content owners reacting to the thievery of their material, you should tell the pirates to stop taking stuff without paying for it. It's that simple.
That's a really good idea. How far back should we go to "tell the pirates to stop taking stuff without paying for it." Maybe the 15th century, when Gutenberg started the whole printed word thing for Europe? Or perhaps more recently in the 16th and 17th centuries when composers guarded their original compositions from thieving competitors and people who illegally snuck in to performances for free?
Reality check, Overly Critical Guy. The "pirates" aren't a recent innovation since the creation of Napster, ok? It's been happening for at least 500+ years, and will continue for another 500+ years. I'd suggest re-examining your attitudes towards artistic theft given its long-standing embrace by our communities.
And people often say that they will take their business elsewhere, but then stick to the cheapest vendor when push comes to shove. Self-report is not the best indicator of actual behaviour, especially for a hypothetical.
I agree and disagree. Your point's on, but when I'm looking for something to buy, I restrict my search for the best price on an item to very reputable vendors, not the large majority of vendors who are getting consistently crappy ratings at pricewatch or resellerratings. Why? Because if the item doesn't work or breaks after a few weeks/months, I don't want to deal with the b.s. of getting stonewalled by a customer unfriendly company to replace or repair it. Of course, others shop differently.
Chuck
I for one welcome our new pickup truck, towerbearing oooooooooooverlords. :-)
Chuck